Clusterfuck: the Soundtrack was a live accompiament to Clusterfuck– a piece by Joey Cannazaro. In it, the entire contents of a volunteer’s garage were destroyed and reassembled into artworks, while other participants wrote poetry and cultural analysis of the destruction and reconstruction.
The soundtrack was created by placing three mics throughout the space, and creating a kind of sampler/sequencer/drum machine patch in Pure Data. Samples would be taken from the sounds of the destruction which would take samples of up to 2 seconds once a certain gain threshold was reached (basically a gate). After, which, the length, speed of playback, and pitch of the sample would be selected by me and entered into the sequence
The result would be a beat or texture (depending on how long each sample was in the sequencer) the participants would dance to as they worked, the “drums” of which would change organically as the sampler plucked out new sounds to enter into, or replace other sounds, in the sequence.
Full video documentation, unfortunately, was lost. The first 45 minutes of the soundtrack were recorded. Below is a sampling. Album forthcoming: