Disquiet0552 – The Radio In My Life (Die große Hitze) by celaeno published on 2022-08-01T09:02:35Z An interesting assignment. Since John Cage suggests it's kind of a ritual to "assimilate" disturbing influences and compares it to the (anthropological) idea of integrating fearsome animals by painting them, I thought I'd try with a few disturbances of my own. (Actually, I thought about this a little longer. It fits into several sociological models, e.g. Luhmann's theory of social systems: A system gets irritated by its environment and has to cope with that, by repulsion or by integration; Cage's approach is in the integrating spectrum. Or Rosa's theory of "Resonanz": We need modes and models of "Anverwandlung", roughly meaning non-forceful assimilation, to have a working, "resonant" relationship to 'our' world, else we experience growing "Entfremdung"/alienation.) My disturbances: The vacuum bot (my own fault); leaf blowers which get active every friday morning like clockwork in our apartment building (not my fault); and the news (well ... my fault to switch them on, I guess; and maybe we're all a little responsible for the content). So I recorded all those sounds, recorded a drone bed and arranged everything. The duration was set by the (unedited) vacuum bot sample. I tried to only slightly edit and manipulate the samples, but I felt a little LFO action on the frequencies was in order. My favorite news sample was the line "Die große Hitze", the great heat or heat wave, so this is the song's title - contrasting the leaf blowing, which in my opinion should only occur in autumn ... if at all. Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/57197 Genre Electronic Comment by RabMusicLab A great track, I like the different elements and how they fit together. 2022-08-02T14:50:16Z Comment by Kei Ah - I like the blitzy sped up leaf blower(?) sound. 2022-08-02T01:55:25Z