Arrite (disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic) by Nate Trier

This piece is a spiritual heir to the previous Disquiet assignment. In making that piece, I spent a lot of time trying unsuccessfully to eliminate background noise and also exploring overlapping (but not synchronized) rhythms.

In this piece, I embraced background noise and used it to create a tonal context for my field recordings of rhythms.

In isolating and looping small snippets of sound, subtle changes in the overtones became apparent, and this became as much a character of each loop as the rhythm. Maybe the next step is to figure out the pitches of the background noise and use them to generate a harmonic system.

Most of the loops are from a short "field" recording session around the house. You'll hear various appliances and one of my cats eating breakfast. I pulled in one sound from a previous field recording session for the Cities and Memory project (https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/cities-and-memory-the-sound-of-a-city-gone-stir-crazy): the sound of a boisterous teenage girl telling her friends, dismissively, about a boy who had wronged her.

I had a plan to generate pitches using the ratios of loop lengths, but I think capitalizing on the pitches inherent in the background sounds worked great. Most of the sounds are as-is; the "organ" sound comes from throwing a loop into Ableton's Simpler.

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