phase6

AFTER THE ZOOM - HOW TO DO BREAKS IN YOUR ROOM (ONCE YOU’RE JOBLESS)

We at the international consortium of how-to-break-a-zoom are well known for our democratic approach toward breaking things up. What would you do if you didn’t have a zoom ? what if you didn’t have the internet ? What if you didn't have a laptop ? … Oh, well, for that last one, I doubt we can do anything for you, but for everything else, we’ve created for you this audio-visual rocket science guide to do breaks right there in your room, with access to the internet and to zoom.

KATKATKATKAT sampler
1. Record/find a sample (preferably of a moaning cat or a dog that forgot how to dog)
2. Pick out a segment of time and create a loop
3. Pick out a different segment of time and create another loop
4. Loopy loop over the loopy loop until you start to sweat and your family is calling 911
5. Play all the loops at the same time at the family dinner and enjoy seeing the impressed faces of your family
6. In case you see someone calling the police, run
7. OR play all the loops from the beginning of sample, and they have them start looping at different points

Reorchestration Degeneration
1. In a DAW, take the piano part, translate (re-orchestrate) it to the guitar chords
2. Take the singer’s melody, translate it to the piano chords
3. Take the drums part, translate it for the piano chords

Visual Lucier aka ‘Digital Deep Fry’ (free of palm oil)
1. take a picture A
2. project that picture in space (on computer/phone/tv)
2. take a picture B of picture A
3. project picture B in space
4. take a picture C of picture B
5. PICTURE PICTURE PICTURE PICTURE PICTURE OF PICTUUUUURE
5. do this 10, 15, 20 times or until infinity, depends on your age and will to live
*could also use this process on visuals or video

Fibonacci SongWriter (TOOL-fans friendly)
1. pick a set of text (poem, jumbled up, rap, your grocery list)
2. use the early section first part of Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 (wear glasses for extra-smartness)
3. start at top of the piece of textset, skip by Fib number, pick out these words
4. put these selected words in a new order
5. Pretend to be a math genius

Headphone Filter
1. Pick any song or part of song
2. Play out of the headphones
3. Record headphones playing the sample while adding something new
4. Repeat a few times
5. You really like that lofi studying girl on youtube aren’t you ?

Voider (Nihilist friendly)
1. Remove randomly, using eyes not ears, clumps of audio signal
2. consolidate the remaining moments
3. Repeat many times
4. Find remaining moments to turn into loops
5. Reflect on what you’re doing with your life

DEGENERATIVE SOUND AND VISUAL PROCESSES

Chaos V
1. Pick 5 songs
2. For each song take a 5-second sample, 30 seconds into the song
3. Mash everything up together
4. Use grains filter for better results and delay
5. Remember that ~~ DESTRUCTION/ CHAOS IS ALSO A FORM OF ART~~
6. Remember to deactivate caplocks when writing manuals

IO AI ( If you repeat this long enough you will sound like a spaceship)
1. Go into the notes on your phone
2. Type the first sentence you see into dalle or other AI visual generator to generate a photo.
3. Ask a friend to describe that photo (it’s okay if you don’t have any, you can pretend)
4. Type their description into an AI visual generator again.
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for eternity.

30 B
1. Record a 30 second sound.
2. Apply a delay effect beginning with a whole note delay time.
3. Record only the wet signal
4. Apply a delay effect to this recording, beginning with a half note delay time
5. Record only the wet signal.
6. Repeat each time using half of the previous delay time until the limit of your delay effect.
7. Sorry there’s no 30 C because we didn’t want to confuse fahrenheit people.

SMSator (its 2004 again)
1. Open a text message and create a sentence by choosing the 2nd word suggestion.
2. Speech to text you saying that sentence. take that text and read it aloud, to the speech to text.
3. Repeat step 2.

IO AI ( If you repeat this long enough you will sound like a spaceship)
1. Go into the notes on your phone
2. Type the first sentence you see into dalle or other AI visual generator to generate a photo.
3. Ask a friend to describe that photo (it’s okay if you don’t have any, you can pretend)
4. Type their description into an AI visual generator again.
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for eternity.