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On the Clock - disquiet0520

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0522: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.
All sounds were created from the recording of an ice-cube rattling in five different glasses. The inspiration led to this piece, trying to find out how eternal ice sounds.

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/ 4

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The Eternal Ice (Disquiet0523)

This track was inspired by the number 23 (as proposed by the Disquiet Junto Project 0529). The generative MIDI sequencer Transition was used (as for all Musical Bots tracks), but also Stochas for the choir.
The number 23 influenced that piece of music in many different ways. Among others the morse code of psalm 23 in English, French and German is also part of this track.

My gratitude goes to zwier for the fieldrecording of the sheep provided here: https://freesound.org/people/zwier/sounds/200329/

Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

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23 Sheep (Disquiet0529)

This track is a tribute to my favourite song as a small child: "Der Mond ist aufgegangen". The melody was composed by Johann Abraham Petter Schulz (1790), and the poem serving as lyrics was created by Matthias Claudius (1779),

Following the Disquiet Junto Project 0535 the bars of the melody were brought into a new order and thus rearranged into a new melody, but with the intention to retain that deeply melancholic and peaceful ambiance I love so much in this song.

The picture is kindly provided by Klaus Stebani on Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/de/photos/mond-vollmond-mondlicht-moon-4545713/)

More on this 535th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Jigsaw Disjunction (The Assignment: Break a familiar melody into pieces and play it in a different sequence) – at: https://disquiet.com/0535/ 1

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Der Mond (Disquiet0535)

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) — at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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halF halF [disquiet0536]

A live electronic sequence created in Pure Data.

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) – at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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Dogs of War (disquiet0536)

In Sylvia Plath’s “Stillborn,” metaphor operates almost as a counterfactual. The poem is a satirical critique of her creative process, conveyed in a self-mocking tone to imply an uncomfortable concept: if these poems/children had a better creator/mother, they would be alive today. Plath delivers a harrowing, ironic message loaded with self-deprecating gallows humor:

These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
If they missed out on walking about like people
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love.

O I cannot explain what happened to them!
They are proper in shape and number and every part.
They sit so nicely in the pickling fluid!
They smile and smile and smile at me.
And still the lungs won't fill and the heart won't start.

They are not pigs, they are not even fish,
Though they have a piggy and a fishy air --
It would be better if they were alive, and that's what they were.
But they are dead, and their mother near dead with distraction,
And they stupidly stare and do not speak of her.

For this creative brief, Suss Müsik envisioned something beautiful and pristine contained in dusty glass jars of formaldehyde. A simple melody for fake woodwinds was slowly distressed using glitch technologies to accompany a VCVRack patch playing a Lydian chord progression. (The Schillinger System was used to define harmonic variations, for composition geeks out there, nearly undetectable under all the fuzz).

Although the final output doesn’t necessarily evoke images of rotten, grimy bodies left to decay, there remains a sense of something having “missed out on walking about” like a fully realized piece. To paraphrase Plath, Suss Müsik cannot explain what happened to it.

The piece is titled Plath and was recorded quickly to 8-track in three takes.

**Postscript:** admittedly, Suss Müsik's contribution this week skews more towards the concept of "metaphor." than working with a commonly known figure of speech. Apologies. The only example that came to mind was "raining cats and dogs," recalling a piece titled "Dog Puppet Born Out of a Sock" that Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser did in the 1980's using a rudimentary sampler. (It shows up on the *Friends & Enemies* compilation, if you're interested).

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) — at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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Plath [Disquiet0536]

I recorded loops of clangs, beats and, waves and ran them through fx chains to create a clamour, then stripped back the effects and samples.

More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Guided Decompression (The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill) — at: https://disquiet.com/0538/

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On the Clock - disquiet0520

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