Disquiet Junto Project 0061: Textinstagr/am/bient

1. Background: This project is a low-key followup to the Instagr/am/bient compilation at the end of 2011, and that was in many ways the direct precursor of the Disquiet Junto.

Various contributors to Insta/gr/ambient were among the initial participants in the Junto. (http://disquiet.com/2011/12/28/instagrambient-25-sonic-postcards/ - https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/stijnhuwels/s-eYAXb)

2. Instructions:

Step 1: Roll a die six times (or six dice once), add up the combined results, and then subtract five from it. Make note of the resulting number.

Step 2: Visit this Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/textinstagram

Step 3: Count the tweets of that account backwards from the most recent tweet at the time of your visit until you reach the tweet that coincides with the resulting number from step 1 above. Make note of this tweet, unless it begins with an @ sign. If the tweet begins with an @ sign, then use the next tweet (continuing down in reverse chronological order). If the next tweet also begins with an @ sign, then continue until coming to a tweet that doesn’t begin with an @ sign. This final tweet will serve as the title of the track you will soon begin composing and recording.

Step 4: Now, roll a die twice (or two dice once), add up the combined results, and then subtract one from it. Make note of the resulting number.

Step 5: Visit this web page and locate the list of Instagram filters:

http://goo.gl/MWPb0

Step 6: Count down the list of filters on that page until you come to the filter that coincides with the resulting number from step 4 above.

Step 7: Close your eyes and imagine a simple photograph that would be described with the tweet that is the title of your track, and that would have been treated with the filter that resulted from the step 6.

Step 8: Now imagine that the image from step 7 is the cover of your next single. Record a track of original ambient music that would be this single. It should be between one and two minutes in length, true to the postcard-like quality of Instagram — and, by extension, Textinstagram.

3. Process

The result of the above steps was ‘Branches against a colorful background’ with ‘no filter’.
With a picture of branches against a colorful sky - as i can see right now when i look out the window - i started working on this week’s piece.

I only used one single, old sample, and since ‘my’ textinstagram has no filter, i didn’t add any filter to the sample, but tried to create an atmosphere fitting to this sunny pre-spring afternoon, by pitching down and placing the sample in several loops.

I hope you like it.

_s.


More on this 61st Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/02/28/disquiet0061-textinstagrambient

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/