This weeks disquiet assignment was to create a piece of music inspired by the haiku:

"There’s a lifetime in
between the first and second
clicks of the door’s lock"

I started with the idea that I would treat each line of the haiku as different parts of the song that reflected that particular line. I started with the last line/part of the song ("clicks of the door’s lock") and made a little beat out of bits of a field recording I made of me opening and closing my bathroom door. Although you don't hear it until 2/3 through the song, that beat became the basis for all the synth riffs/piano etc.

The haiku made me think of all the little things that aren't so insignificant if you really focus on them. I imagined the first part of the song as a bunch of little sounds in rapid succession. I conveniently had a lot of random sounds from an unfinished piece I was going to call "50 Sounds" in which short, ever changing samples, everything from a power drill to a laugh track, were played somewhat rhythmically to a piece of music. I decided to combine the two ideas since I had all those samples ready, just had to adapt it to this new piece...

Nice haiku Marc, thanks :)

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:

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