Made for Disquiet 0539.  The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music.

It's fascinating that music, like breathing, can help us into transformed states. So I loved the idea of trying to create a piece of music that begins with, and evolves from calmly breathing. I expected to make something very mellow, some low pulsing and droney pads that compliments the breath, but once I started creating, I came up with something a little different. Added a little more energy, inspired by breathing, and observing the backyard. 

I sat in the backyard, half reclined in a chair, with the Zoom recorder on my chest, breathing. As thoughts came into my head, instead of waiting for them go away and going back to breath, I vocalized the thoughts. I noticed how some birds are living in a thorny rose bush, finding safety from predators (like my cats unfortunately) in a dangerous place. I noticed a new fence in the neighbors yard to separate a wild overgrown garden from a manicured lawn. Noticed plants growing tall, spreading seeds in the spring, and I wanted to let them all grow, to stop cutting it all back. With our gardens, and with life we build some fences, but the order may be just an illusion, it's still chaos underneath, and there's a kind of peace knowing that. 

Finished song in Ableton by listening to the breathing, adding things that came to mind, lots of Hybrid Reverb. Then did my first every recording with the circuit monostation through a talkbox pedal, which became the lead  part in this. That too was an exercise in breathing, and kind of messy. Looking forward to playing with that more. 

As someone weekly beats pointed out, this song itself has a bit of illusion of order - there's some chaos bubbling around underneath some calmer vibes.

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More on this 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

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Illusion Of Order [disquiet0539] [Weekly Beats 17]

This track started out as an experiment on the number 2600 and the concept of "phreaking" as suggested by the Disquiet Junto Project 0542 (see below).

But as the music developped these initial inspirations were lost, and the track evolved into a description of the happy state of being boarded by a pirate of love - a pirate you already secretly love...

More on this 542nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – 2600 Club (The Assignment: Make some phreaking music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0542/

Thanks to Alan Bland for proposing this concept for a project.

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Pulses is the electronic alter ego of Notts based musician and Producer Chris Miles. Since 2018 Pulses has put out an enviably diverse range of electronic tracks, fusing DnB, house, disco, rock and jazz, as well working as remixer, producer and collaborator with artists around the UK and beyond, notably Michael Donoghue, Minimums, Montage Collective, Lines of Flight and Donnie Dynamite. You can follow @pulsesnotts on all the usual social media and find the full catalogue of tracks on pulses1.Bandcamp.com.