Manhã de Luz - 12/11/2021

Don’t lose your spiritual spark,the 40 day challenge explained

How I came to where I am.

Using the light of Chanukah to transform the past.

There is no such thing as despair.

The month of tevet. Transforming anger into laughter.

Full album in free download here https://archive.org/details/PIRATE_Tapes_Over_Can/
and here https://indierockmag.bandcamp.com/album/over-can
Video Art Clip here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA41MClU8Mw

Dada Sisterhood Playground by PIRATE Tapes from OVER CAN [full album in free download]

Original track created by otj omar Tarik johnson 

Experiment Participants

a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0544-feedback-loop/

[disquiet0544] cartesian drummer

I used the track:  HalF frugaL ( https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-frugal-disquiet0593-featuring-marc-eisenschink-and-encym). Having downloaded the solo (twice), the duet & the trio, after carefully adjusting the dynamics, I arranged them in a canon-like sequence & then added a degree of reverb.

More on this 594th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Threemix (The Assignment: Remix an asynchronously produced trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0594/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0594-threemix/

Frugality Canon (disquiet0594)

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Gedale Fenster, a Miami-based entrepreneur and motivational speaker, is the founder and CEO of the People’s Insurance Claim Center and Evolutions Treatment Center. He has also established the Breslov Center, where he teaches. He hosts a series of  daily and weekly online lectures.

How I came to where I am.

Breslov Power Classes - Gedale Fenser

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