Super Easy Reading Book2 Unit 08

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off

Make the thing you think is the minimum viable music.

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.


I considered what "Minimum viable music" means to me.

For me, musicality has always linked directly to musicianship. A great practitioner of their instrument has great musicianship, and great musicianship opens the path to great musicality. Musicality then breeds music.

So in a quest to go minimal, I took the road of a single C2 note from a Juno synth (TAL Uno LX) -a square wave oscillator, everything open. Nothing easier than hitting a note! 
Then I sent the audio from that single note, looped at 134 BPM, into a load of effect tracks, comprising reverbs, delays, pitch shifters, overdrive distortions, and digital degradation effects units.

I wanted to expose my love for effect units. Nothing but a C2 on a Juno was used here. Musicianship is minimised fully - musicality comes from performance of 'effects', not of 'instruments'. Set up and play the effect units in a digital DAW. Minimum Viable Musicianship....

Tal Uno LX, Wave H-Reverb, Eventide Little Plate, Surreal Machines Diffuse and Modnetic, Eventide Little Alter Boy, Eventide Effect Rack x3, Tritik Moodal x2, Replika XT x3, Glitchmachines Fracture XT x2, Sonic Charge Permut8. A shade of feedback here and there!

Thanks for listening...

A Pluck from a Punk (disquiet0530)

Knish

Held Under

LoFi Sunday

Clear Noise

Here's Looking At You, Kid  [An original piano improvisation]

Spinning Out of Control

Vocals and music - Phil Hawker
Lyrics - Bobby Lincoln

The wheels are coming off, 
We are travelling at different speeds,
Me in my Ford, you in your Mercedes,
Can I adjust to your life in the fast lane?
Or will your acceleration, just cause me pain.
Don`t want to appear weak but I`m having trouble,
Losing sleep, counted so many sheep,
My senses are fragile, I’ve been having disturbing dreams,
Nothing is the same, or so it seems.

You`re in the fast lane,                          
And I`m in the inside lane,                            
Are we spinning out of control? 

You`re in the fast lane,                          
And I`m in the inside lane,                            
Are we spinning out of control?          

Please, won`t you tell me, tell me what`s wrong,
Tell me please, what is going on…

Until now, we have rarely been apart,
Always shared secrets - of the heart
Memories traced back, over so many years,
Almost joined at the hip, through the laughter and tears

You`re in the fast lane,                          
And I`m in the inside lane,                            
Are we spinning out of control?

The Wheels are Coming Off

Who am I before the Dawn?  Before the sun rises and I can see clearly....and I find out that love was with me all along...even in the darkest nights.

Before The Dawn by Intact Sounds

You find a big music-box in the attic. You can see that it has puppets playing instruments. You can't help but turn the key...

Super Easy Reading Book2 Track25

Compass Publishing

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