Disquiet Junto: A Picnic on a Cliff
The prompt for Disquiet Junto 0632, "Shear Wind", instructed us to take that awful wind-blowing-across-the-microphone sound and make it useful.
I live in a notoriously wind-swept city and the weather was cooperative, so I recorded several minutes of wind shear in my back yard with a stereo field recorder. I brought the recording into my DAW on three tracks, one reversed, and executed some glitch maneuvers to make them rhythmic. On top of everything is a Cmaj7 drone using a few layers of custom sampler instruments.
REMEMBER: Headphones are antennae, like an insect's, that pick up the thoughts of the composer.
Listen to "A Picnic on a Cliff" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud, and feel just how far it would be to fall.