all return to god

Performed by The Spektral Quartet:
Clara Lyon- violin
Maeve Feinberg- violin
Doyle Armbrust- viola
Russell Rolen- cello

a traditional folk tune recorded straight to wax at Third Man Records in Detroit.

Big Rock Candy Mountain

This week's exercise was to record something, then transliterate it, translate it, and interpret it.

I improvised a piano melody (the first thing you hear), then set to work.  First, to translate it, I sent it to a toy piano synth and mercilessly quantized it onto the beat.  I ended up with a funky cluster samba at times, which is quite ok with me.

Then, to transliterate it, I ran it through Ableton's "Scale" plugin to invert the intervals from the original (all C's remained C's, all D's became B's...I think, I didn't really look too closely at what I was doing).  For both of these, I added some random pitch variation to represent translation errors, noise, and/or artifacts.  

Finally, to interpret it, I sped it up and made it two octaves higher, then told Ableton to change that to MIDI and play it on a synth.  The new melody follows the contours of the original melody (perhaps).

I just came back from a retreat where we performed a lot of Pauline Oliveros, and I think I am in a meditative mood, so the piece unfolds pretty slowly and sparsely.  The opening gestures come back sporadically, as a faint memory, to glue everything together.

More on this 286th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Found in Translation: Make three versions of something from different distances — at:

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trans(literate, late), reinterpret [disquiet0286]

ESSi is Jessica Ackerley and Rick Daniel.

Recorded and mixed by Martin Bisi at BC Studios in Brooklyn, NY. 
Mastered by Sarah Register.

I, I

Recorded and mixed by Martin Bisi at BC Studios in Brooklyn, NY. Mastered by Sarah Register

Out Of Body

Citris "Driving Me Crazy"
NPM 1802

Angelina Torreano - Vocals/Guitar
Chris Krasnow - Guitar/Vocals
Eva Lawitts - Bass
Zane West - Drums

Written by Angelina Torreano
Arranged by Chris Krasnow

Recorded by José Díaz Rohena
Mixed by José Díaz Rohena
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe

http://citristheband.com
http://newprofessormusic.com

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Citris – Driving Me Crazy

Lydian String Quartet. 
Performed 22 February, 2018, Davis, CA. 
LINK TO SCORE: https://issuu.com/danielgodsil/docs/godsil_strqtfinalfullscore

String Quartet (2017)

Performed at Vermont College of Fine Arts on February 8, 2018.

Composed by Ben Lieberman
Performed by:
Ben Lieberman (electric guitar)
Ken Thomson (soprano saxophone)
Peter Hess (alto saxophone)
Ed RosenBerg III (tenor saxophone)
Jay Rattman (baritone saxophone)

Arrow (Live) for Electric Guitar and Saxophone Quartet

I wrote this song in 2015 for my friend and long-time collaborator Justin Haynes. Rest in peace, brilliant spirit. This is an outtake from the Careless Thoughts sessions, recorded June 2016. 

Ryan Driver - voice / piano 
Michael Davidson - vibraphone
Rob Clutton - bass
Phil Melanson - drums

Recorded at The Canterbury Music Company by Jeremy Darby, Julian Decorte, and Jean Martin.
Mixed at The Farm by Jean Martin.
Photo by Janis Demkiw.

Sorry About My Friend

PER NØRGÅRD
Orchestral Works

Giordano Bellincampi, conductor
Copenhagen Phil
Rebecca Hirsch, violin



Per Nørgård: Voyage into the Golden Screen - 1st Movement

Robyn Gray is a multi-instrumentalist, musician, and programmer in Montreal, QC.

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