Nostalgia

Colored By Setting Sun

About this composition:

After extracting the short phrase from a longer improvisation/composition, I used a MurF filter to get the sounds heard here, along with the original, unfiltered material.
I hope you enjoy!

More on this 130th Disquiet Junto project — “Create a composition by altering an ongoing loop” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/06/26/disquiet0130-filteredmelody/

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Infiltrate [disquiet0130-filteredmelody]

In The Air Tonight Drum Fill for 1 Hour 10 Minutes except it's tripled and one is played .1% faster and one is played .1% slower

In The Air Tonight Drum Fill for 1 hour 10 minutes at 99.9%, 100%, and 100.1% speed

While working on this assignment, I found out once again how incredibly hard it is to do very little: Since music for meditation should allow for emptying the mind. It should not distract. And yet, there should be something there that helps one get into a spiritual, contemplative mood, let any thoughts pass and then, a state of non-thinking, of pure presence.

As a consequence, music for this purpose should/can have several properties:

Modal - which allows a stable, calm state of mind

Quietness and space - making sure the music doesn't overwhelm, neither by quantity nor by information overload

Far-eastern sound connotations - As in many "spiritual" purpose-made music releases, this seems to aid obtaining a certain mood, often by raga-type sounds, or sounds that get used in "puja" ceremonies in India (and heard in yoga/spiritual paraphernalia shops all over in places such as Rishikesh).


Since all of these are optional anyway - and are cliché-ridden on top of that -- I chose to simply use an electric guitar, for drone-like sounds, and after considering sitar-like moves, opted against those (for reasons of economy). Everything got recorded into Logic Pro, with generous helpings of delay and reverb, obviously.
I layered six guitar tracks (plus one track for the chime) on top of each other and tried for them not to get into each others' way too much, to allow for the composition to consist of very little information.
Enjoy your meditation!
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Music for Meditation

Music For Meditation [Disquiet0323]

Izeh

une composition improvisée à la flûte alto pour célébrer la beauté de la rosée matinale / an improvised flute composition to celebrate the beauty of morning dew

rosée matinale / morning dew

dans le sens du poil

http://soundcloud.com/drust-1 vs http://soundcloud.com/simonwest369 in The Return of The Prismatic Assyrians. (Written, performed and produced by Drust IV, Saxophones; Simon)

Study #3 - Happy? (New Mix) Drust IV + Simon

Asafoetida: A plant that is used as medicine and as a spice in Central Asia... Well, Patrick, the guy behind Asafoetida is neither Indian, a doctor nor a good cook. But the name Asafoetida sounds somehow otherworldly which applies well to to the music he makes.

Izeh

Asafoetida

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