Combinations of poetry, reggae, and dub.  All music by me.  Poems by other people.

Rasta Poets

More on this 413th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Objective Thankfulness / The Assignment: Highlight one piece of musical equipment for which you are particularly grateful:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0413: Objective Thankfulness

This piece is made up of the following components:

* Gertrude Stein reading her poem "If I Told Him" (recording from [Penn Sound](writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stein.php))
* A recording of black holes colliding from the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaborative

If I Told Him

Major thanks to Malka Older, the novelist, for having generously contributed her own reading of her short story "The Divided" as the subject and source audio for the 400th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:

https://disquiet.com/0400/

Malka Older – The Divided – Part 9/9 disquiet0400

I'm using the Croaker reggae riddim.  Instead of traditional drums, I'm using rauschen to create a beat.  There are bits of Ezra Pound reading "Hugh Sewlyn Mauberly (Contacts and Life)".

More on this 401st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Pacing / Use background noise as a beat, as a rhythm — at:

https://disquiet.com/0401/

Noise Pacing - disquiet0401

"I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.  Recited by John Richetti at the Kelly Writers House Wexler Studio, October 25, 2016.  

Musical backing by Paul Reiners.

See [PennSound](https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Richetti-Song-of-Myself.php) for the original recording.

More on this 402nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Music for Tasks / The Assignment: Record music intended as the backdrop/soundtrack to a chore — at:

https://disquiet.com/0402/

I Hear America Singing - disquiet0402

This is a dub version of "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman. Recited by John Richetti at the Kelly Writers House Wexler Studio, October 25, 2016.

Musical backing by Paul Reiners.

See [PennSound](writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Rich…ng-of-Myself.php) for the original recording.

More on this 402nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Music for Tasks / The Assignment: Record music intended as the backdrop/soundtrack to a chore — at:

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I Hear America Singing (Version) - disquiet0402

vcv rack  open source virtual modular synthesizer .
the creator Andrew Belt has made accessible to all this beautiful software, a true example of musical democracy, was born a wave of creativity
A worldwide thank you to Andrew, to all the plugin developers for this gift. 
release date  28 _11_2019
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At the end of 2018, I bought an Empress Reverb box.  It was $449.  I have used it constantly throughout 2019.  I can't imagine ever getting rid of it.

Why the Empress Reverb?  There are no menus.  I can't stand menus.  This thing, you just turn a knob and then you turn some other knobs.  Then listen.  It just makes everything more beautiful.  Even something like "reverse", which I have almost never used in a DAW because it's so obvious and cheesy, transforms the audio spectacularly with the right combination of the various knobs.

"Process Opaque" is a recent creation, released under my alter ego Ambient Matyk.  I don't know what setting this was.  I don't keep notes.

I've been kicking around the idea of buying the Empress Echosystem (also $449) and using the two together.  I might wait to buy that in mid-2020.  No hurry.  I'm having too much fun with the Reverb for now.

For more music and stuff, visit:  https://www.markrushton.com

More on this 413th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Objective Thankfulness / The Assignment: Highlight one piece of musical equipment for which you are particularly grateful:

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Process Opaque (disquiet0413)

The instrument I chose as thankful for is my Fender acoustic guitar. Not exactly the most expensive guitar I've owned, but I get a lot of enjoyment playing it.
The piece is something I've been playing for years and never had a title for. Never recorded it before, it has just been something to play. I recorded with a combination of the guitar's pickup, an SM57 and an Aston Origin --- a mic I really like the sound of, even though it slightly picks up a radio station. (and no, it is not the mic cable or interface. Ugh.) Then a little eq on each track, and Ozone 8 on the master bus.

More on this 413th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Objective Thankfulness / The Assignment: Highlight one piece of musical equipment for which you are particularly grateful:

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The image associated with this track is by julochka, and is used (image cropped, text added) via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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"If We Must Die" written and recited by Claude McKay.

Dub remix by Paul Reiners.

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If We Must Die (Version)- disquiet0413

Vega lap steel -> Boss compressor -> volume pedal -> TC Electronics delay -> Alesis reverb. Thanks to Greg Wells who gave me the Vega lap steel so many years ago! It opened up new sonic worlds to me.

More on this 413th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Objective Thankfulness / The Assignment: Highlight one piece of musical equipment for which you are particularly grateful:

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The image associated with this track is by julochka, and is used (image cropped, text added) via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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If We Must Die (Version)- disquiet0413

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