15 - Part Time Survivor

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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Illusion Of Order [disquiet0539] [Weekly Beats 17]

"China is a strange, backwards nation ruled by tyrants," said the nation founded by Puritans who used to execute women for witchcraft and just killed reproductive rights protections because they think Jesus told them to.

The world is dominated culturally, economically and militarily by a regime that just killed women's reproductive rights because they make Jesus mad.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The World Is Ruled By A Backwards Puritanical Regime

Bit of romance for you...

SOFTWARE USED :
FL Studio
Cinematic Studio Series (Strings, Woodwinds, Brass)
Cinematic Strings 2
CineBrass
CinePercussion
True Strike 1
Berlin Woodwinds + Berlin Woodwinds Soloists 1
Berlin Inspire 1 Harp
Randy's Celeste
Choirs : Oceania 1, Olympus Micro, Streznov Essentials
Reverb : Cinematic Rooms
Mastering by Cloudbounce

© 2022 Paul Cassidy
THE REPRODUCTION OF THE MUSIC HEREIN CONTAINED IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR.

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Sweet, the sinful woman’s voice
Saying to the perfumer, "Give me oil and
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Give me the best oil so that
I may mix it with the tears of my eyes and
I will go anoint
The First Born of the Most High.
My trust is in God that, by this oil, my sins
Will be forgiven."
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To our Lord, He saw her faith, Halleluiah,
And forgave her sins

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