Smart

Agnes Martin

A section (piano melody, bass, piano, mallets piano and field recording backing tracks)
B section (piano melody is routed to a percussion sample bank, randomly triggering percussive sounds, backing tracks continue)
A section (piano melody returns over backing tracks)

For this challenge @disquiet:
Step 1: There’s a now famous quote from the opening of the 2006 film The Prestige. It goes as follows. Give it a read:

“Every magic trick consists of three parts – or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird, or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it – to see if it is, indeed, real. You know: unaltered, normal. But of course … it probably isn’t. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now, you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough. You have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call the Prestige.”

Step 2: This arc, moving from Pledge to Turn to Prestige, can be read as a take on the classic ABA structure, in which a theme is introduced, then something else occurs, and then the piece returns to where it began.

Step 3: Compose and record a piece of music that takes the process described in The Prestige as its blueprint.

Photo by Javardh-F
Composed and performed  by DD May 16th 2021

Miniature 10 "The Prestige" (disquiet0489)

Tempo Perso

My instrumental take on Bill Wither's "Ain't No Sunshine".

Music by Mahan Mahan

Recorded @ Pahlavi Sound Studios, Mama Shadi's basement, Los Angeles, CA, USA 12/2020

Ain't No Sunshine - Instrumental

Fallait pas se tromper (A13)

Klagovisa

This track is a reflection on Ray Bradbury's short story:
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

Painting by Bea Palatinus: 
https://www.beapalatinus.com/

Machines - There Will Come Soft Rains

lockdown collaboration between French Radio Constellation and Diarmuid MacDiarmada, available on Bandcamp

The Local Group - Rock'N'Roll In The Afternoon

Honeymoon with Nic Evennett (Del Rey cover)

■ Translate (Google)The kindness in my pocket

The casual scenery I was seeing that day
I can't go back again I can't meet that person

He changed one beer bottle to 10 yen.
Such casual exchanges warm my heart

A fixed-route bus passes in front of the store
Bring your bike to the shade of the shade

Lots of 10-yen coins and kindness in your pocket
It was in, I want to go back to that time

Memories should be my treasure forever
The scenery in my pocket fades

The route bus is no longer running
That liquor store is also only in my memory ...


How long has it passed since then?
I miss the supermarket in my neighborhood so much

When the consumption tax started, I bought 1 yen cup ramen.
Consumption tax is increasing and kindness cannot afford

Someone stopped time and was too lonely
But I can't remember the inside of the supermarket ...

Lots of memories and loneliness in your pocket
It's in that time when I can't go back anymore

Memories bring me back to the world of the past
Gently stuff it in your pocket

The route bus is no longer running
I found the hometown of my heart and the kindness

■歌詞(ポケットの中のやさしさ)
あの日見ていた何気ない風景
もう二度と戻れない　あの人にも会えない

ビール瓶1本を　10円と変えてくれた
そんな何気ないやりとりが心を温める

店の前を路線バスが通り過ぎる
日よけの木陰に自転車を寄せる

ポケットには沢山の10円玉とやさしさが
入っていたんだね　あの頃に戻りたいな

思い出はいつまでも僕の宝物のはずなのに
ポケットの中の風景は色あせてしまう

路線バスは今はもう　通っていない
あの酒屋さんも　僕の記憶の中にだけ・・


あれからどれくらいの　月日が流れただろう
近所のスーパーマーケットが　あんなに懐かしい

消費税が始まった頃　1円カップラーメン買った　
消費税は増えるばかり　優しさも余裕がない

誰か時間を止めて寂しすぎる
それなのにスーパーマーケットの店内が思い出せない...なんて

ポケットには沢山の思い出と寂しさが
入っているんだね　もう戻れないあの頃

思い出が僕を過去の世界に連れ戻す
ポケットの中にやさしさつめこんで

路線バスは今はもう　通っていない
心のふるさと　やさしさ見つけたよ

Pocket_no_nakano_yasasisa(demo)

Here come the dumb, the lonely and the rum