The song I’ve chosen to share is a mix and master edit of a song I wrote and sang as a duet with my sweet song bird daughter in law Melanie (pictured). I think of it as a kind of expression of the lifestyle choices I’ve made, and based on long experience, I would recommend. I credit the concept to my wife who has allowed me to be “Doing The Best I Can” for many years now. She often says we all are doing just that. Throughout this recent edit the words stayed the same. They say it the best I can. I’ll include them in the post. The tune has a Country picking parade kind of flavor with some Bluegrass sauce sprinkled on. Have a taste! Enjoy!
Lyrics:
Doin’ The Best I Can
 
1.	Waking up with worst case worries / Making up hot line calls
Rushing around, in a great big hurry / Am I gonna slip and fall?
Could it be, I got this picture / Hung in the wrong frame?
Got it twisted, got it upside down / Got it gone before it came
B1	Maybe I should know better / Maybe I do know best
Maybe I could draw the best parts over / And get shed of the rest!
C:	Think I’ll say good morning / To the new day with a grin
Let my face, be the place / Where the sun gonna shine again
Take up everyday living / Same way the new day began
Keep on doin’ it, day by day / Doin’ the best I can
 
2.	Betting something bad, could come to pass / Letting it get you down
Watching time, running by too fast / Did’ya hear that siren sound?
Could it be that it’s a better bet / Everything could go right
Got it made, got in the bag / Got dark clouds turning light!
B2	Maybe I found a clue / Maybe I cracked the code
Maybe I dug up a treasure chest / And hit the mother load!
C:	Think I’ll say good morning / To the new day with a grin
Let my face, be the place / Where the sun gonna shine again
Take up everyday living / Same way the new day began
Keep on doin’ it, day by day / Doin’ the best I can
Tag: (chorus)

Doing The Best I Can, Edited

Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

Step 1: Consider how when making a field recording, there can be disturbances in it, such as a passing car or plane, or a noise you didn’t notice until you listened back, or a malfunction in the recording equipment. A common such problem is wind shear.

Step 2: Make a recording that has wind shear in it, perhaps by standing in the wind, or recording from a moving vehicle, or through some other technique. Or locate a pre-existing field recording with wind shear, perhaps on freesound.org 1.

Step 3: Make a piece of music employing the recording you made in Step 2, and make the wind shear a focus of the piece. That is, pay attention to, rather than avoid, this sound that you would likely in other circumstances identify as a shortcoming.

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Track notes:

I spent a couple of days in my hometown/homearea of Normanville on the western coastline of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It's Summer here at the moment, and the weather down south has been particular lovely and warm. I took a long late afternoon walk along the beach, heading south with the heritage protected dunes on one side and a very still ocean on the other. 

Aside from the serene, still conditions there was a nagging, turbulent breeze throughout the afternoon and evening.

I made a few recordings along the way, including one at the foot of the dunes (feat. cicadas) and another on a shallow bed of dried seaweed at the tide break. Though I documented moments of transparency in the recordings, the wind (even with a jammer on the handheld recorder) was prominent throughout.

Since coming home and listening back to the recordings, I thought it would be interesting not only to feature the sound of wind shear, but use its dynamic peaks to control aspects of the composition.

I recorded a sample from the tide recording to my Morphagene module and routed the CV output directly to the clock. The dry/wet mix was set to roughly 60/40, so 60% of the mix would be the dune recording played back in real time, whilst 40% is the tide sample playing back on the Morphagene. Whenever a wind shear event arose (either form the tide or dunes) this would manipulate the time stretching, 'Morph' and 'Slide' parameters of the Morphagene. 

I'm letting the Morphagene play itself for the first half of this track, then subtly manipulating some of the controls to transition parts of the sample and close out the track with just the dune recording.

[Disquiet_Junto_0632] Tidal Jamming

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ECLIPSE 147bpm Bm (Prod. guilann)

Me Through a Prism
Lyrics by Sheila Kaufman, Music by Robin Lea Fritche

Sometimes I feel like a mix of all colors
Blended together to Black,
Clothed head to toe so no one will notice me
Feelings too dark to unpack

I know inside, when all the joy flees from me
It's prob'ly born out of fear,
What if I show myself as I am
And only my critics appear?

Chorus 1:
I need to see
Me through a prism,
Each color splashed out on the wall,
The rainbow of colors I know are inside,
The ones that are hard to recall.
I need to see
Me through a prism
The light shining bright to my soul,
Each glittering ray on full display
Whenever the dark takes control.

Some days I know I'm fun and I'm talented,
At least that's what some people say,
How do I hold on to those feelings
When all of my skies have gone grey?

Chorus 2:
I need to see
Me through a prism
Each color splashed out on the wall
The rainbow of colors I know are inside
The ones that are hard to recall.
I need to see
Me through a prism
The light shining bright to my soul
Each glittering ray
On full display,
Working to get there someday.

(February 2024)

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Me Through a Prism

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305 - The Knot - Masta O

진짜 오랜만에 신곡 하나 풀게요~~~!!!
사실 쌓아둔 곡이 몇 개 있는데...
사소한 고민들이 좀 있어서
이제 차차 풀어보겠습니다^^

Verse 1)
No money in da bag now earn some 푼돈 정도
remind 놀고 먹을 땐 매일같이 술병 청소
그러거나 말거나 past the days 약 8년
no more rap은 안 팔려 so positive boy 저 망할 놈
어차피 do 막 내 style로
who dat boy 무대뽀로 무대로 나가면 look 호러쇼
안 굴해 또 비굴해도 막 그려보면 상승 graph로
야 그래도 내가 뭐랬어 잘 될거랬지 억울했어
get pressure to take off now get more stacks from passion
bring back the day just alcoholic man
암울했던 땐 다 한때뿐인데
야 뭐가 불안해 한 개도 안 부러워
걍 내가 하는 말이 모두 맞아
like 끊임없이 돌아가는 발전기
get that check game winner

Bridge)
삐꺽삐꺽 삐꺽대는 일상
속 못 식혀 can't clean up
비슷한 매일이 식상
so spit out speak up
직장인 do freestyle
정해진 답으론 답을 못얻으니
개썅마웨이로다 speak it up bow

Hook)
Fresh like 영계백숙
From da 거지백수
Spitting flow so 매끈
나머지는 폐품
spit out
speak up 
직장인 do freestyle
삐딱 시선
직장인 do freestyle

Verse)
엇비슷한 매일 속에 비스듬히 걸쳐
이 beat 발해 빛 gonna 취직
차피 쉬지도 못할 거 알아서 빌빌
거리면서 돈을 벌어먹고 앉아 빙신
이라 욕을 해도 너무나도 무의미한거 알아
개나 소나 모두 하기 싫어 실직
so make cash 매일매일 내 인생 mayday
but damn 기분 째져 when it's payday
calm down 때로는 멋져
노래방에서 나오는 반응 awesome
어서 먹자 I told ya
말하는 뽄새가 have a lot of 건방
떨떠름해도 바로 수긍 Yes sir
타투를해도 You are not a rapper
백이면 백 다 지는 game 에서 never lose
make capital 부 make capital 부 ya ya 
who are you? I'm poet not fool
now can't take my eyes off like 언더붑
dance all night half of mine from 딴따라
시간이 없어도 shake that booty left & right pow wow

Bridge)
삐꺽삐꺽 삐꺽대는 일상
속 못 식혀 can't clean up
비슷한 매일이 식상
so spit out speak up
직장인 do freestyle
정해진 답으론 답을 못얻으니
개썅마웨이로다 speak it up bow

Hook)
Fresh like 영계백숙
From da 거지백수
Spitting flow so 매끈
나머지는 폐품
spit out
speak up 
직장인 do freestyle
삐딱 시선
직장인 do freestyle


Prod. SCARY'P
Lyrics. PNGIN
Composed. SCARY'P, PNGIN
Mix & Master. PNGIN
Artwork. PNGIN

직장인 Freestyle (Prod. SCARY'P)

Exploring feedback within the Buchla 288 Time Domain Processor.

288 Feedback Study 1

sound art for disquiet0634

The base layer is O Pastor Animarum by Hildegard von Bingen.

I recorded it with contact mics on a precariously balanced sound sculpture.
I liked the effect so much that I added a few more layers, but with short blasts of me skipping through tracks by different composers. Tracks included Mozart’s Requiem, Arvo Part’s Tabula Rasa and the Phillip Glass track The Grid from Koyaanisqatsi; which, along with the grid like elements of the sound sculpture, inspired part of the track title. Hildegard’s religious visions are also an inspiration.

Grid hallucinations are simple geometric shapes that are identified as occuring at the inital stages of trance or other altered states.

The image I used for the track is a watercolour I made while listening back to it and thinking about the sound travelling through the sculpture.

No effects just some EQing.

More on the 634th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Bust a Move — The Assignment: Record a piece of music on top of a muffled recording of a piece of classical music — at https://disquiet.com/0634/

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