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Disquiet Junto Project 0222: Bounded Foundation

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Disquiet Junto Project 0221: Morning Music
The Assignment: Compose something — quiet, peaceful, refreshing — you’d want to wake up to.

Took a bit of the opening music from NPR’s Morning Edition. Time stretched various amounts, layered and edited, bit of Borderlands added to create a dreamy soundscape. 

Thanks to BJ Leiderman for the Morning Edition theme music.

I posted a second, extended  version on my other Soundcloud page at:
https://soundcloud.com/project-dirigent/my-morning-edition-extended-version-for-radio-and-very-large-orchestra-disquiet0221-morningmusic

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Dreamscape [disquiet0221-morningmusic]

Organic Disquiet Junto Project 0222 Bounded Foundation

I started with the bottom track being the rhythm track made in an assortment of ways including tempo changes, cross fading and moving a loop around. I added some Vangelish synths that I cross faded between for the cloudy atmosphere. When I visualize the dancer she is combines a fluid movement with the movements aided by long flowing robes. She also performs jerky movements at the same time in a trace-like state, like in a voodoo ritual, but in sci-fi attire. More on this 222nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Compose a piece for contemporary dance — with a “soft top” and a “shifting bottom”) at:

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Cloud #3 (disquiet0222-boundedfoundation)

I have never attempted to create something for choreography and felt somewhat daunted by the notion. How repetitive should the piece be? Is too rhythmical a constraint on the dancer? All these questions and more went through my head making the piece. Thankfully the brief gave me some idea of what was expected, so I tried to stick as closely to the idea as possible but wanted to also add something of an electronic twist to the piece, without turning it into club music. I wanted something that had a heartbeat, a pulse but was also textured and tonal.

I began by generating some low end, using the MIDImadness generative software to create an altering bass pattern for a patch I had made on the Phonec 2 virtual synth. I then added another instance of MIDImadness to trigger some hi hats that had been delayed and automated to create an evolving texture of crackle and hiss. Finally I used a voice in Omnisphere to create the ambient tones which float above the rest of the soundbed.



More on this 222nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Compose a piece for contemporary dance — with a “soft top” and a “shifting bottom”) at:

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The Gift Of Solitude - Disquiet0222 - Boundedfoundation

so i'm super wary of these choreographic juntos *but* this thing i've been tinkering with this week seemed sort of appropriate - a looming, out-of-phase low sine wave, an awkward scrape/thump/scratch arhythm made of cutlery & polysterene . . . the processing is reletively light, but definite - a little granular delay adn reverb, a little phasing; f i l t r a t i o n of various levels. so.

More on this 222nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Compose a piece for contemporary dance — with a “soft top” and a “shifting bottom”) at:

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it cannot be stratify for the basic need. [disquiet0222-boundedfoundation.]

Disquiet Junto Project 0222: Bounded Foundation
The Assignment: Compose a piece for contemporary dance — with a “soft top” and a “shifting bottom.”

This track grew out of the project ‘Breath Dance’ and is based largely on samples of my voice. 

For the top level I recorded a variety of utterances and played short slices with Borderlands and Samplr creating cloud-like, granular clusters.  In Samplr I used the Bow tool to create very short slices of sound moving them around quickly. 

I included some of the original voice samples (played in Samplr) and distributed them throughout the track. They sound haunting, like ghosts inhabiting the piece.

The shifting bottom and some of the longer sustained pitches were created with samples of a pitch pipe played in Samplr using the Bow and Tape+Scratch tools. 

It ended up sounding very dark and mysterious. There is a vague, recurring semi-tone interval (minor sixth) that gives it a haunting quality. 

More on this 222nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Compose a piece for contemporary dance — with a “soft top” and a “shifting bottom”) at: http://disquiet.com/0222/

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

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Bounded Foundation [disquiet0222-boundedfoundation]

Thin Snow Scatters On the Wind (naviarhaiku256)

Naviar Haiku 256

Thin snow scatters on
the wind, melting as it falls
Cries for help for light 

Robert Hayden (1913-1980) published his first book of poems, Heart-Shape in the Dust, in 1940.

Even though he was interested in African American history and often expressed his concerns about race in his writing, he didn’t want to be identified as a black poet. William Meredith wrote about him: “Hayden declared himself, at considerable cost in popularity, an American poet rather than a black poet, when for a time there was posited an unreconcilable difference between the two roles. There is scarcely a line of his which is not identifiable as an experience of black America, but he would not relinquish the title of American writer for any narrower identity.”

Thin Snow Scatters On The Wind (naviarhaiku256)

Naviar Haiku 257
Daybreak (abstract)
daybreak;
from the middle of the rain
a skylark song

haiku by Uejima Onitsura https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/ryokan.html
picture by Aaron Burden https://unsplash.com/@aaronburden

Daybreak (abstract) (naviarhaiku257)

Disquiet Junto Project 0362: Operational Surrealism
The Assignment: Make a piece of music informed by a key text from the art movement.

The Sewing Machine and the Umbrella for Piano and Percussion disquiet0362

Particles of Me for Mallets and Strings (naviarhaiku270)

snowing
through the blizzard
particles of me

haiku by Alan Summers www.callofthepage.org
picture by Ian Battaglia https://unsplash.com/@ianjbattaglia