Name: disquiet0655 - Womb by Rubes
Duration: 3 min 34 s
Description: Created for the Disquiet Junto #655 - Soothing Sounds II. The brief is to make some soothing music for a newborn baby. I don't have a baby to test this out on, but I hope they'd like the reminder of their most recent home.

Intense and actually soothing. Lovely sonic impression.

deep in the wood - impro-set live (r.s.stropharia + pantoclast + dac insomniac) 14.05.2019

Inspired by the following haiku written by Hosai Ozaki:
Wordless
all day long
the shadow of a butterfly
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku532-wordless/

Shadows of silence

Shadows Of Silence (naviarhaiku532)

My contribution to Disquiet Junto Project 0655: Soothing Sounds II.

The Assignment: Make music for babies.

I made something to fall asleep to.

More on the 655th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at https://disquiet.com/0655/

disquiet0655 lullababy

This week's Disquiet Junto introduced me to the work of Raymond Scott, beginning with his 3-volume "Soothing Sounds for Baby" and back and forth in time between The Quintette and Looney Tunes and Manhattan Research. I've got a lot of catching up on history to do.

I wanted to do something that was lovely and curious, a dark fairy tale, a sort of lullaby that evoked the clockwork precision of the songs on the Soothing Sounds records. I learned that Scott was the inventor of the sequencer, so I decided to use a hardware sequencer and analog circuits to create an homage. I tried to reflect the ostinato sequences, the wandering key changes, the intricately overlapping patterns, and the stiff improvisation that I heard in Scott's work.

All of the sounds came from a Roland JU-06A, the boutique reissue of the venerable Juno-60 and Juno-160. I also used that unit's 12-step sequencer to create each iteration of the ostinato pattern (through 7 key changes.)

I swear I tried not to use reverb. I swear I swear.

"Baby's First Harmonic Minor" is best enjoyed curled up under a soft blanket, nightlight aglow, with the hall light on and the bedroom door left open just a little bit. 

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles. Chicago, USA.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0655

Disquiet Junto

Baby's First Harmonic Minor (disquiet0655)

More on the 655th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — https://disquiet.com/0655/

Yes (disquiet0655)

Created for the Disquiet Junto #655 - Soothing Sounds II. The brief is to make some soothing music for a newborn baby. I don't have a baby to test this out on, but I hope they'd like the reminder of their most recent home.

disquiet0655 - Womb

Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at disquiet.com/0655/

Mostly Kontakt 6
Made extensive use of Outputs Portal effect

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Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional System, Compositional Strategies, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Musicians, Catalyst Texts and Vocals and Music for Julie Dupraz, Reverse-Scream Vocal (Inhaling Rather Than Exhaling Through the Vocal Cords), Unconscious On-the-Fly Mixing for First Two-Thirds of Composition, Conscious Mixing for Final Third of Composition, Editing, Production
Reinier Van Houdt - Piano, Bass, Radios, Synths, Computers
Susan Stenger - Field Recordings of Bees and Starlings, Alto Flute, Baritone 
Guitar, Organ, French Horn, Incorporation of Paul Amlehn's Reverse-Scream Vocal Into the Composition
Robin Storey - Mini Grand Piano, Electronics
Julie Dupraz - Text, French Spoken Vocal
Pierrick Drochmans - Sound Design
Nick Wilson - Audio Engineering and Production on First Two-Thirds of Composition
Laura Schuler - Live and Studio Violin
Isambard Khroustaliov - Real-Time Manipulations of Laura Schuler's Violin, Electronics
David Lynch - Visual Art

disquiet0655 - Womb

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