A track for Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge where a piece of music is composed in response to a haiku.
A very short piece; I wanted to have the violins soar out of the darkness for a brief moment, before going out, like the firefly mentioned.

For That Brief Moment (naviarhaiku390) - Adrian Lane

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
346 week haiku
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2020-08-21

Pause Pause Pause ( Naviarhaiku 346 )

Texture 2

Heavenly creatures
descending it seems –
the sea of spring

Matsunaga Teitoku (1571-1654) was an early haikai poet and founder of the Teimon school of poetry, which aimed to make haikai accessible to a wide audience while striving to make it a respectable literary form. A task ultimately accomplished by Bashō.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 17th February 2021

haiku by Matsunaga Teitoku https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matsunaga-Teitoku

picture by Nathan Dumlao https://unsplash.com/@nate_dumlao

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Sea Of Spring [naviarhaiku371]

[disquiet0476] Morning Mist

Disquiet Junto Project 0476. The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.

The photo gave me instantly some kind of Blade Runner feeling and I wanted to avoid this. I decided to make something with LFOs that give the cars driving by a sound. I created a generative patch on my AE Modular with a recently added Wonkystuff rbbs adressing the FMOS oscillator, a lots of LFOs and filters. I wanted to add some Houston radio talk, but I only found a WebSDR source in Texas (w5cqu.homeip.net:8100/) from which the voices are taken (some harmless talk about MS Windows). The result is my feeling of having a flat in this building, listening to local radio with open balcony. Will be a #1 hit single…

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The photo was shot in Houston, Texas, by Robert Boyd and is used with his permission.

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project:
https://disquiet.com/0476/

Project discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

Distant Passings [disquiet0476]

naviarhaiku371 – Heavenly creatures

Heavenly creatures
descending it seems –
the sea of spring

Sea of Spring (naviarhaiku371)

**Production Notes**

Boy, this was a fun assignment! Don’t know about the other participants in this challenge, but it felt great to close my eyes and just start to play.  But first I learnt that it’s impossible to patch and play a three-row Modular blindfolded. There’s too much tactile information, too many knobs, and you get tangled in the cables. 

So I turned to the Cocoquantus for a gritty base pad sound. Finding knobs and patchpoints was much easier with this instrument. 

Next step was an Easel Command, which arrived just two weeks ago. I was quite nervous while playing it (still have a lot to learn), but actually, it was easier to wiggle than I thought. And it just felt great.  

Last step was the Moog Matriarch and its lovely delay. Again, I patched with my eyes closed, corrected a misplaced connection and started playing a bass, some chords and just some weird delay and filter sounds. 

Threw everything together in Ableton, pre-mastered in Ozone. Time spent: 3 hours. 

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** Disquiet Junto Project 0477: Flying Blind**

The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.

There is just one step this week.

Step 1: Play something blind. That is to say, record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0477” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0477” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0477-flying-blind/

Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Additional Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February 22, 2021, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 18, 2021.

Length: The length is up to you. (You’re closing your eyes, not holding your breath.)

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More on this 477th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Flying Blind (The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0477/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0477-flying-blind/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Rachel Fox, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/7Ua2dD

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Intensify [disquiet0477]

Drone structure. Real-time recording made in Pure Data, with partially random sequences.

More on this 477th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Flying Blind (The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0477/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0477-flying-blind/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Rachel Fox, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/7Ua2dD

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Stochastic Sextet (disquiet0477)

Old cassette recordings of guitar, glockenspiel, and viola sliced and diced by the awesome Shortcircuit plugin. Instruments performed by Simon Neufeld and Judith Klassen. Computer programmed by Simon.

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More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:
https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino 

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Tape Collage by The Land [disquiet0478]

for this track I first auditioned and downloaded multiple parts from freesound.org, from textures and synth noises to radio tunings (all creative commons free licences - see below for a comprehensive list). These where assembled into a drum rack in ableton and randomly triggered. I set random velocities which would trigger the sample offsets to create added variety. Furthermore I used live 11's new PitchLoop89 effect to create an active stereo mix.

Samples Used:
52713__kathakaku__nano-loop-square-1
67024__kanukanakina__boxki3
79547__cognito-perceptu__amplitude-rich
195926__efecto-fundador__beep-1000-hz-length-of-1-frame-to-25-frame-sec-code-pal
291173__modularsamples__fender-chroma-polaris-twang-a-1-34a-0-jakj
308321__modularsamples__roland-jx-8p-noisy-decade-b3-59b2-ouge
311272__modularsamples__roland-sh-2-two-finger-bass-f-4-67g3-xzsj
314643__modularsamples__yamaha-cs-30l-soft-to-harsh-g3-soft-to-harsh-56-54
399331__anthousai__plastic-bubble-wrap-handling-02
401535__gcguest1__amcs-jh-ti22-tang-kiteng-kiteng
420352__14gpanskabokoc-maksym__5-hologram-game
437086__craigsmith__g52-23-old-wagon
454236__kyles__traffic-heavy-under-brooklyn-bridge-train-pass-overhead
542810__rippleys-circus__808-3
547454__guiperlin__garrafa-plastica

More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:

https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0478-collage-of-collages/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by the late Jeffrey Melton (a very early Junto participant), and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/4zoz46

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Sea of Spring (naviarhaiku371)

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