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ghost world pt 2 departure

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A choral piece made from submitted samples. All elements were from the provided samples. No editing of the samples was done except trimming to length (and adding a fade in/out where it stops or starts abruptly) and (manual) pitch correction, then playing chromatically. I fixed my recording problem so no clipping this time. The samples were output from my MPC into the mixer where they got s ame EQ and sent to a delay and reverb. Overall the sound is in the ballpark I was looking for but the mix is a little lacking in dynamics.

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More on this 419th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Dischoir / The Assignment: Make music from 100+ vocal samples of held syllables by members of the Disquiet Junto — at:

https://disquiet.com/0419/ 2

This all came about as a result of something Alan Bland mentioned on the Junto Slack. He pointed out that my having misspelled Disquiet as “Disquier” in the December 19, 2019, project title made him think of “Dischoir,” a possible Junto project. Thanks to Alan and to Jason Wehmhoener for helping me think this project through, and to everyone (over 50 contributors) who sent in samples.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0419-dischoir/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Dischoir (disquiet0419)

ambushed by bush fire,
had we only been dragons –
a lizard’s last words.

haiku by Mark Morris medium.com/@purelandhaiku
picture by Jiawei Chen https://unsplash.com/@noobrustic

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

lizard

halF dragoN [naviarhaiku315]

“Women’s cycles are controlled by the moon,” someone recently told Suss Müsik. “After all, the word 'menstruation' is partially derived from the Greek word 'mene,' which means ‘moon.’ Obviously there’s a connection, right?”

Data science suggests otherwise. Menstrual cycles do not sync with the phases of the moon, according to researcher Dr. Marija Vlajic Wheeler, who analyzed 7.5 million cycles and found no correlation between the two. Then again, perhaps the connection is not so much scientific as romantic — less empiricism, more mythology. Consider the following passage by Helsinki poet Paavo Haavikko:

You marry the moon
                         and the sea and the moon and the woman: ear less, all. ·
                         You'll listen to their voices, you'll talk to them
                         and they say
                                                it's a game.

You Marry the Moon is an example of “Haavikko’s awareness of the complexities of communication involved in any sexual relationship,” according to translator Anselm Hollo. Such acute awareness is “gained through the realization that only the particular is worth the attempt. It is there, a world, waiting for others to discover as much of as they can.”

Perhaps the lesson we take from this is to think of the moon as a transient being. The phases of the moon are defined by its position in the sky, fleeting and always temporary. Our lives resonate in proximity to heavenly bodies, the paths we cross subconsciously intertwined. As Haavikko wrote:

in sleep nothing exists, only the moon is full,
the moon your silver mother
sleep on
and the moon’s path will cross the sky of your sleep
be at rest
no-one will come, oh, no-one else, only the moon
crossing your dream sky on its way to earth’s.

For this weird piece, Suss Müsik sought to explore phases of sound that concentrate on “the particular” while crossing one “dream sky” with another. Human sounds are passed through a grain synthesizer at the same frequency as recorded static, their individual “phases” overlapping in cosmic synchronicity.

The piece is titled Haavikko. It was recorded live to 8-track in January 2020.

More on this 420th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Luna Tick / The Assignment: Make music that proceeds according to the phases of the moon, in celebration of Lunar New Year — at:

https://disquiet.com/0420/

Thanks to George Kelly, whose suggestion inspired this project. Just one step this week.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0420-luna-tick/

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Haavikko [Disquiet0420]

Submission to Disquiet Junto Project 0420: Luna Tick
The assignment: Make music that proceeds according to the phases of the moon, in celebration of Lunar New Year.
For more information, go to https://disquiet.com/0420/

Girls and boys, come out to play.
The moon is shining bright as day.
Leave your supper and leave your sleep
and come with your playfellows into the street.
Come with a whoop and come with a call,
Come with a good will or come not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
a half-penny roll will serve us all.
You find milk and I'll find flour
and we'll have a pudding in half an hour.
-- Mother Goose

I imagined a night sky filled with stars, beginning at the New Moon. For the stars, I wanted something random, pitiless & uncaring, so I used Kevin Hopper's Reaktor ensemble Wool to play AAS Strum via the Widisoft Audio to MIDI plugin.

As a resident of the northern hemisphere, I experience the waxing crescent starting at the right side of the moon disk. Therefore, the moon theme pans from right to left, building from silence to full volume when it reaches the center of the stereo field (Full Moon), then decreasing back to silence at the end of the piece.

The moon theme is a setting of the nursery rhyme "Girls and Boys Come Out to Play" from "The Baby's Opera" by Walter Crane (1877). It is played by a sampled piano with a drum track added, then fed through Audiority GrainSpace so as to become luminous and unrecognizable.

Moon As Bright As Day [disquiet0420]

DisquietJunto0420 - disquiet0420

This was meant to evoke the phases of the moon. I had quite a lot of ideas but ended up going down a formulaic rabbit-hole. I feel like the style does evoke the stellar and I managed to get enough movement in there, but I tried to be a bit too clever with regards to modes, polymeter and changing time. I quite enjoy the result but it doesn't exactly capture the moon's phases in the way I had intended.

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More on this 420th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Luna Tick / The Assignment: Make music that proceeds according to the phases of the moon, in celebration of Lunar New Year — at:

https://disquiet.com/0420/

Thanks to George Kelly, whose suggestion inspired this project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0420-luna-tick/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet 1 for Slack inclusion.

Luna Tick (disquiet0420)

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