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Love Me [ disquiet0532 ]

Known in the 90s and 2000s as the go-to source for strong, melodic news themes, Newsmusic Central has returned, to build on its enduring legacy with bold, unique themes that will set you apart from the competition.

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2022 Newsmusic Central Demo

Made for the Diquiet Junto Project no. 541

Recorded two bars of “acoustic techno” at 130 bpm (faintly heard at the end of the piece) and stretched it to 10 bpm using Logic’s smart tempo. Mashed up the audio a bit and added guitar part.

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The Heart(beat) of Darkness [disquiet0541]

More on this 541st weekly Disquiet Junto project — 10BPM Techno (The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats) — at: https://disquiet.com/0541/

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Shiny Shiny (disquiet0541)

Tough assignment… This could have being called horror vacui since I couldn’t avoid filling with delay effects and adding some free form pianoforte arpeggios to escape that emptiness of 10bpm. I need to talk about this to my psychotherapist :slight_smile:

Tried playing it at 12x speed after recording it and doesn’t sound techno at all, so I guess it doesn’t fit the assignment very well. I am posting it anyway since at least it is at 10BPM.

Made with NI Maschine+.

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Ogni 6 Secondi (disquiet0541)

Rare Hole

Samples https://soundcloud.com/user-467414884/butter-boil-beach-disquiet0544More on this 545th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Unself-Awareness (The Assignment: Learn from feedback intended for others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0545/

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Low Country Twat (disquiet0545)

Different piece, but kind of on the same thought process - at least in my compositional conceptualization. This is still very much a work in progress. 

I continue to tinker with the idea of different perspectives - how the “same story” can be told by different people and vary slightly or a lot. I talked about the juxtaposition of natural vs. human-made.

I'm responding to everyone's feedback with this new composition, too. @gis_sweden said my previous track was like several short pieces. So I'm working through this piece differently. I have yet to record the vocal part, so this seems like a useless piece of information for those listening, but I started with the lyrics. My dad was recently diagnosed with dementia. And I keep thinking about memories. How do we share memories if we don't remember any more? Did we even have the same memories even if we experienced something together? 

Anyway, I ended up with sappy lyrics about the times we'd go to the beach in Chiba (we lived in Tokyo), how we'd play in the water all day and our skin would hurt in the bath, how we'd go buy kakigori (shaved ice) after we'd slipped under the futon, and how I insisted I'd get the same flavor as my dad, even though matcha was too bitter for me and I really just wanted the neon colored strawberry ...

When I at first worked on a melody with the lyrics, then set it to a bass line and drums, it ended up super mellow at 90 bpm in e minor ... Then, as fate would have it, my program crashed and I lost the entire piece. I took it as an opportunity to transform it into an upbeat piece, 130 bpm and in G major. So, a different way of tackling the conceptualization of the "same story" from various perspectives AND a way to respond to @gis_ sweden 's comment. 

I also wanted to work on feedback from @howthenightcame - on the notion of the natural vs. the human-made. So, I kept the mellow acoustic sound of the "original" piece in the first 16 bars while really pushing it to become a, well, 80's pop/dance tune.

Shiny Shiny (disquiet0541)

Hugh G Twatt