Original Score inspired by the Alan Moore collection of short stories

And, at the Last

Stream/Buy/Download 'Benjamin's Dream' in its entirety at the following link...
https://thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/benjamins-dream

Benjamin's Dream (excerpt)

Disquiet Junto Project 0648: Shadow Boxing
The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor.

Step 1: Familiarize yourself with the concept of shadow boxing, in which one exercises as if there were an opponent.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that explores the idea of shadow boxing — of acting out an interaction, violent or otherwise, in which the opponent is imaginary.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0648” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0648-shadow-boxing/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. How many rounds can you go?

Deadline: Monday, June 3, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

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License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license).

Please Include When Posting Your Track:

More on the 648th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shadow Boxing — The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor — at https://disquiet.com/0648/

Always shadow boxing - disquiet648

Composition inspired by haiku by Ryōkan Taigu

out of my dreams
the distant croaking
green frogs

Croaking Green Frogs

Croaking Green Frogs - (naviarhaiku544)

Open

Disquiet Junto 0657 was an invitation to compose a pice out of overlapping tones that start and stop suddenly.

I created multiple layers of synth pads, each holding a single note of random duration in the key of Am. Next I bounced the audio, slowed it by 75%, and reversed it to create abrupt stops in each tone. I blended that audio back into the mix to provide a low aural foundation. On top of this I recorded a couple of additional pads with held tones, chopped up with a grain stutter plugin. To wrap it up, I improvised a couple of wandering leads with "broken" synths in Cmaj/Amin.

I worked hard on the spacial mix, so headphones or a good pair of stereo monitors are recommended.

More on this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0657

Disquiet Junto

Tails on Tones (disquiet0657)

TRANSMISSIONS   ZX -  6      -     2024

Lfo talk III

Payroll
Does my brain
Every month
Never the same
To think these people have been trained

No hope
How do we cope
No hope
Month to month
Month to month

412. payroll (harding-rambaut).mp3

bells created wonderful soundscapes. in former  days they were heared all over the country, with differnt sounds - this has been lost.

Lonely Bells

I0 5 2024

James is a multi-instrumentalist creator of music as well as a contemporary artist. He plays stringed instruments (guitars, cello, ukulele, bass, etc.) and uses a midi controller for any instruments he doesn't have access to; such as a timpani or a glockenspiel.

James creates music that is inspired by the pure love and joy of making music. The style of music he creates varies from piece to piece. He will go from songs that are accompanied by guitar or ukulele to full arrangements of a traditional North American band to orchestral scores that you could easily hear backing a film or video. 

By browsing his music you're likely to come across traditional pieces of music sounding as old as time and other pieces sounding as new as yesterday's jingle. 

Instruments inspire him to make new sounds come together to form music and combining old and new sounds is something he very much enjoys exploring.

While music and sounds are a big part of James' personality so is making art, graphics, and videos. James has worked professionally as a technical illustrator/graphics specialist since 1991. So James almost always creates art specifically for each piece of music he puts out into the world. The art may or may not be directly related to the piece of music in context but it will definitely give you another perspective on how the music has inspired him or makes him feel.

To learn more about James and/or see his art seek him out on Instagram.com and YouTube.com; he’s easy to find if you spell his name correctly.  A pseudonym also being used by James is Mildred Stain.

If you are interested in collaborating in any way, contact him!

Croaking Green Frogs - (naviarhaiku544)

jamesbrynildsen

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