I wanted to speed up the audio from the No Kings that I attended in Seattle protest, so you can hear it all in around five minutes. I did that using Davinci Resolve. Here is that audio, which has been compressed and EQ’d so there are no big changes in volume or super harsh noises. What stands out to you most?

For me, it’s the overall waxing and waning of people’s voices and energy.

Then I couldn’t resist seeing if I could turn that audio into a bit of a noise composition. So I did a speed run (for me, which isn’t very fast) to see what I could come up with using a few favorite and new plugins. Among the plugins I used were XLN Life, Audio Damage’s Other Desert Cities, Audio Damage’s Replicant, and Arturia’s Efx Motions. Here’s the audio of the noise composition.

Maybe I’ll do something with it, or maybe I won’t. But it was fun quickly seeing what one can do with such a unique (and uniquely sped-up) field recording. It’s definitely a one-of-a-kind composition!