Création sonore en réponse au Haiku Challenge de Naviar Records n°433:
if a touch
could heal
spring rain

Rain Touch - NaviarHaiku433

Back in the Paleolithic Era, Suss Müsik had a day job in a print shop. It was stressful, physically demanding work; the craft of mechanical reproduction requires meticulous attention to detail and firm adherence to bulk scheduling. It was not uncommon for tensions to erupt during the course of a working day: yelling, crying, illness, threats, even the occasional fistfight.

Still, there was also something comforting about the work’s repetitive nature: an almost soothing glow that takes over the mind and body, not unlike the euphoria experienced during vigorous exercise. One felt a sense of camaraderie, of being an essential component of a successful process. We were merely cogs in a machine, yes, but it was our machine and together we cultivated an ability to convert stress into sedation.

Walter Benjamin (author of the seminal essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) once wrote: “The relationship between life and purposefulness reveals itself, seemingly obvious yet almost beyond the grasp of the intellect, only if the ultimate purpose toward which all single functions tend is sought not in its own sphere but in a higher one.” This piece attempts to explore this process of manifestation.

A sonic facsimile of mechanical process was “played” using a simple melody. The same melody was then replicated using a “breathy” glass harmonium voice, amplified into a rhythmic synth pattern. The effect is calming by nature, its native rigor gently evolving while not disrupting the pattern. The glitched voiceover is a recording of a factory worker, describing how he had been given a warning after arriving at work three minutes late during a snowstorm.

The piece is entitled Jeckel, named in honor of a former coworker who sadly passed away in 2013. This effort is dedicated to the the laughs, frustrations and wisdom we shared during our time together.

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Jeckel [Disquiet0538]

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

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Stress into Rest (disquiet0538)

This track is intended as meditation music in a stressful situation: it allows the listener to connect with the music in their agitated state and then let it lead them into a state of relaxation as the composition slows down step by step, leaving the stressful elements aside.
The track starts in the chaos of city traffic and transforms into an underwater world intended to provide calm.

A new track building on and extending the first section can be found at https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/urban-traffic-folly

This composition was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0538, which proposed to create a piece of music for exactly the purpose described above.

I want to thank bkowshik for providing the recording of traffic in Bangalore https://freesound.org/people/bkowshik/sounds/439218/ and naturenotesuk who kindly provides the underwater field-recording https://freesound.org/people/naturenotesuk/sounds/625412/ under the Attribution 4.0 licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Guided Decompression (The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill) – at: https://disquiet.com/0538/

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Assisted Deceleration: From Traffic To Underwater (Disquiet0538)

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Sighedchain [ disquiet0539 ]

I rested a recorder on my chest and recorded a minute or so of breathing with a few stomach gurgles for good measure. I then recorded several passes of this recording through reverbs, delays, a soft simulation of Rings and faded the original in and out of the resulting drone. If you listen carefully you’ll hear my borborygmus



More on this 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

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Respirator(disquiet0539)

naviarhaiku434:
is that a cloud
or a standing screen? again
the moon is hiding her face

haiku: Den Sutejo [Translated by Makoto Ueda] https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/den-sutejo.html
image: Cerqueira https://unsplash.com/@shotbycerqueira
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Rain Touch - NaviarHaiku433

Anne Versailles

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