2024-12-04

Just For This Moment

More on the 676th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sub Melody — The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone — at https://disquiet.com/0676/

Drone From Burkon's Basement (disquiet0676)

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Inspired by Naviar Haiku 571:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku571-stillness/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Vosges Mountains, France, 2014)


petals sifting down - Naviarhaiku571

The opening hit represents the strong trunk of the tree from which the wind strips the tree of its leaves and flowers where the high notes of the piano thru a delay represent the sound of the petals sifting down together. There's a drastic 'ping' that occurs that's meant to symbolize a pebble thrown into a still pool of water and how the ripples bounce back and forth and mix together but ultimately calm is once again restored.

Stillness (naviarhaiku571)

More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

Slinky & Spectrum (disquiet0677)

A new game for new children in a new century, echoes of old mistakes, history on repeat, maybe next time! Lets go to the moon, but not without anticipation, passion, wonder, and regret. Would they recognise themselves as children?

A tribute too Georges Bizet's Op 22 for piano, go listen.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_d%27enfants_(Bizet)

This piano is electric, as is the bass, the found sounds are eclectic: cornwall and NASA, in flight, and in repose. The space inhabited is by Sean Costello/Valhalla DSP.

NASA recordings used by permission, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://freesound.org/people/DudeAwesome/sounds/386070/

Moire on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

Jeux d'Enfants Nouveaux - La Fusée

Jeux d'Enfants Nouveaux - La Fusée (disquiet 0677)

Very Sexy Girl (disquiet0677)

An electronic composition created using Pure Data and Audacity.

More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/



Snakes and Ladders (disquiet0677)

The sounds used in this track are borrowed from an upcoming video from YouTube.com/@paintbrushasmr ...

More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

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halF plaY [disquiet0677]

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt recalled the Jeux d'enfants ("Games for Children") compositions of George Bizet, and suggested creating our own work inspired by a toy or game. I decided pretty quickly on that childhood favorite, the ouija board. 

The seed of the song came from a rambling piano improvisation over a simple placeholder 4-note bass line. I chopped and arranged the interesting parts of the piano to form sections, then recorded fresh performances for each one. I was too lazy to play my actual bass but I spent a long time recording and refining the synthetic bass part. The percussion is handful of simple hand-rolled patterns on a modeled Roland CR-78.

I went back and forth on whether to include samples, and to what degree. I settled on the scrape of the planchette and the ghostly voice of the girl in the ouija board, responding to the unheard questions from the person whose hands are on the planchette. My hope is for the listener to place themselves in that role and enter into dialog with the spirit.

Enjoy with headphones in a candle-lit room.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0677

The Girl from the Ouija Board (disquiet0677)

Coraline Ada Ehmke composes, records, and produces original experiential music from NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles, Chicago. The Hard Times has described her music as "creepy, haunted, but also a little bit uplifting."

The Girl from the Ouija Board (disquiet0677)

Coraline Ada Ehmke

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