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SSA (disquiet0083​-​redacted)

from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2013 by Mark Rushton

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My approach with this junto was from the point of processing juvenilia.

I made a bunch of recordings when I was in high school. This would be 1984/1985. Like today, it was totally improvised, and largely electronic. Back then it channeled the punk rock ethos, although through Casios. We had one microphone, a cheap Panasonic portable cassette player that got screamed into by the 'singer' (not me).

It's funny to listen to this stuff. I kept some on cassette and transferred it to digital at least a decade ago. Why? I don't know...

The songs are short. "Minutemen" short. The lyrics are gross and profane. The titles... well, the title of this song had to be redacted down to initials.

SSA in it's original form clocked in at 34 seconds.

You get a little bit at the start, and a little bit more at the end.

Between? Elements of SSA, including the full length recording, have been rendered and layered and mixed out of existence. Like redacted documents, you know something is lurking behind there, but I'm not going to tell you.

And I couldn't resist redacting a photo booth pic of me from 1984, done about the time this recording was made.

More on this 83rd Disquiet Junto project, in which a page from recently declassified documents related to NSA collection of telephone metadata records is treated as a graphically notated score, at:

disquiet.com/2013/08/01/disquiet0083-redacted/

Image found via twitter.com/shearm and twitter.com/glennf.

Full document at:

goo.gl/wVydxR

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

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from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2013, released April 27, 2014

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I make way too much electronic music. Mostly ambient, some beat-driven.

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