[disquiet0567] Eight

A song for the year of the rabbit.

More on this 578th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rabbit Spirit Ally (The Assignment: Make music for Lunar New Year), at: https://disquiet.com/0578/

Associated public-domain cover image by Johann Daniel Meyer (1748).

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year of the rabbit [disquiet0578]

I have myself a new MacBook Pro, and a Logic Pro to go with it. The world is now my oyster. Here be the first play about on it, much to learn yet. This is in response to this week's @naviar-records Haiku Challenge prompt:

rock bottom—
river stones form
gentle waves

Luke Levi is a poet and photographer based out of Texas. His poems can be found in Humana Obscura, Presence, Akitsu Quarterly, Haiku Commentary, and elsewhere. His poetry book “So Fragile Are the Beautiful Things” was a finalist for the 2022 IAN Book of the Year Awards in poetry. You can often find him sitting outside, listening to birds singing in the Texas Hill Country. Find him on http://lukelevi.com, Instagram @lukelevipoet and Twitter @LukeLevi6
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 15th February 2023

haiku by Luke Levi https://www.lukelevi.com/

rock bottom (naviarhaiku475)

This week's #disquietjunto prompt was to record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

I fired up a random number generator on Friday, and the number it returned was 1, so I downloaded Andreas Kitzmann's beautiful and atmospheric track (https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936/disquiet0591)

I listened to it on Friday and could immediately imagine some accordion or similar reedy tones playing over it.

I wasn't able to get to work on it until Monday, so I settled for using my melodica (surely my neighbors won't mind), which I think worked pretty well. 

The first two phrases the melodica plays are melodies I heard in my head while listening to Andreas' track, and the rest imitate phrases from the source track (though sometimes repeating them starting on a different pitch for a little flavor).

Happy Andreas shared his creativity, and I look forward to hearing what part might come next!

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More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

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Two Of Three (disquiet0592)

A second contribution to this project. I downloaded the track by OhWell & halF unusual (https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-better-disquiet0592-collaboration-with-ohwell?), & added some extra electronic noise.

More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

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All Better - with OhWell & halF unusual (disquiet0593)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records prompt. Here's more details about that:

Long days and warm nights
Laughter carried through the breeze
Summer sings to us

Trenise Ferreira is a Jamaican-American writer who has been telling stories her entire career: as a college football journalist, a publicist at Walt Disney World Resort, and currently as a corporate communications professional and children’s book author.

When Trenise was in third grade, her teacher said that she should write books when she grew up – and Mrs. Buckner got it right! Wonder and imagination are at the heart of Trenise’s stories, creating worlds where children can get lost between the pages, laugh, and learn along the way.

An active member of the SCBWI Los Angeles chapter, Trenise is also a graduate of the Children’s Book Academy and The Voice Roadmap writing programs. She was selected as an inaugural mentee for the 2022 Picture Book Rising Stars program and is currently a 2023 We Need Diverse Books mentee.

Most recently, she won the SCBWI 2023 Ann Whitford Paul Most Promising Manuscript (Fiction) Award. Trenise is represented by Hilary Harwell at KTLiterary. You can find Trenise in her natural habitat – on Twitter! – @TreniseFerreira.

 

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

 

Deadline: 26th July 2023

Haiku by Trenise Ferreira https://twitter.com/TreniseFerreira

Picture by Ankhesenamun https://unsplash.com/photos/0ulIuQ01iSw

through the breeze

Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

I started playing around in the DAW and somehow ended up with old step samples. The simplest idea of musical shadows are certainly delay and reverb, and initially I built a (virtual) modular thing behind the steps that changes the shape of the steps but still lets us think of the original, just as shadows only hint at what cast them.

The second idea was the drums, and what could be the shadow of a drum kit? I used a looping noise sample (coming in very late, and not too loud) and carved out a kind of kick drum with negative noise using filters, so the absence of sound is the shadow here. I'll tell you why it has to be like this at some point far, far away … 

The third idea was to use two different types of motifs in one scale: An FM synthesizer using only the black keys of a blues scale (the real thing), and a classic basic saw synthesizer using only white keys (the shadow). 

Em ... and in general: first comes the real and then you hear the shadows, and in the end there are only shadows, because the word also stands for a kind of vague memory that continues to have an effect even after the real has disappeared. And remember, samples are shadows of real sounds …

The result is undoubtedly overly intellectual and musically not a gem. But it wouldn't be experimental music if the experiment couldn't - as here - go badly wrong. That's why I kept it under 3 minutes ...

Image: Dall-E

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More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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3 Shadows [disquiet0622]

Before the Fall we lived in splendour

Distances(M.Neuhold-Eisenlager-A.Pitts-S.Grundmann)

Another work in progress! I've got the feeling I'm almost there with this track, but not quite. Maybe it needs something more. Or maybe something less. 

Wayback (w.i.p.)

Dark ambient soundscape for your pleasure

year of the rabbit [disquiet0578]

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