The bassline is nice. A second bass layer with a sharper attack could easily fix the "presence" in the mix.

I do like that lead sound - has a almost Leslie effect  to it without the panning!!!!!!

This is really well done, I like the sound design and the mix here works well. The sounds sit well together

Really nice transition here, I like the effect

I like how this last theme is responding to the 'jarring' (in a nice way) synth before it!

enjoying this piece, love the sound design and direction. my type of stuff

I like the Chord Progression in this part!

Only gripe with this track is this lead is way too loud for my tastes. I get it's meant to stand out, but decreasing volume/midrange on other tracks would've done the trick without that lead having to be this loud. Great vibe and textures otherwise!

More on this 508th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Germane Shepard (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0508/

Many thanks to Robert Precht for having proposed this project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Entropy In 3,2,1 (disquiet0508)

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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