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

Rasta Poets

"Son of man,
 You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
 A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
 And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
 And the dry stone no sound of water."
---from "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot.  

Reading by Alec Guinness.
"Mass for Four Voices" by William Byrd.
Arrangement by Paul Reiners.

Son of Man

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

The author Malka Older (Infomocracy, Ninth Step Station, Orphan Black: The Next Chapter) has generously recorded herself reading her own short story, “The Divided,” and made that recording available to the Disquiet Junto community for this 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 (Version)

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

This is the dub mix of [Noise Pacing - disquiet0401](https://soundcloud.com/paul-reiners-1/noise-pacing-disquiet0401).

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:

disquiet.com/0401/

"Sit you down father, rest you."

Noise Pacing disquiet0401 (Version)

"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:

disquiet.com/0402/

I Hear America Singing (Version) - disquiet0402

The poem "Awaking in New York" was written by Maya Angelou.

I also used sounds found on Freesound:

1. metro.m4a
   * Rosachoque
   * https://freesound.org/s/463921/
2. Piccadilly_Circus_Ambience.WAV
   * habbis92
   * https://freesound.org/s/240233/
3. Ambulance_Traffic_Mic inside of car.WAV
   * deleted_user_6718832
   * https://freesound.org/s/365255/
4. London Underground, Arriving, A.wav
   * InspectorJ
   * https://freesound.org/s/401989/
5. SUBWAY_01.WAV
   * Manicciola
   * https://freesound.org/s/121791/
6. Dog Bark.wav
   * Juan_Merie_Venter
   * https://freesound.org/s/327666/

More on this 403rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Filter Box / The Assignment: Record music a piece of music in which a sequence of sounds is treated by the same filter or process — at:

https://disquiet.com/0403/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Awaking in New York - disquiet0403

"Hook" written and recited by James Wright.  Music by Paul Reiners.

Hook

The poem "Hook" is written and recited by James Wright.  I created the music.

Hook (Hallowe'en Mix)

"Hum Bom!" written and recited by Allen Ginsberg.

Dub mix by Paul Reiners

"Gog & Magog" - Allen Ginsberg

"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Recitation and engineering by Paul Reiners.

We Real Cool

"We Real Cool" written by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Dub mix by Paul Reiners.

We Real Cool (Version)

"We Real Cool" written by Gwendolyn Brooks and recited by Morgan Freeman.

"The Tropics in New York" was written by Claude McKay.

Psalm 137 from King James Version of the Old Testament.

The Tropics in New York (Version)

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

Reggae remix by Paul Reiners.

If We Must Die

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

Dub remix by Paul Reiners.

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

https://disquiet.com/0413/

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If We Must Die (Version)- disquiet0413

"The Tropics of New York" was written and recited by Claude McKay.

Dub remix by Paul Reiners.

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