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The Last Place You Look

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

luglio 2022

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - Alap

Method: Once again, The Pull of the Past (https://soundcloud.com/thepullofthepast) showed kindness in allowing me to integrate one of his compositions into a poetry soundscape.  This time, it is the hauntingly beautiful Autumn Hearted: https://soundcloud.com/thepullofthepast/autumn-hearted The copyright for this part of the composition remains with him. Please listen at his place - a powerhouse of inobtrusive creativity. 

Narration: This soundscape uses noise, music, voice and a field recording to create dense space and to narrow in on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia . A few days ago, I was recording a brook in the wide open field when two birds of prey started to have an extensive conversation - what could be more menacing to 'a shy little bird' - apart from all the intrusive sounds around it?

Lyrics / copyright jo richter:

stop being present within my body
she yells into her sister's persitant breathing
she so longs to silence the shared dorm room
it's fists, knives, headphones or leaving

the tireless roar of wheels in the streets
makes her shrink with disgust, shudder with horror
there is no room left for her focus to settle
a shy little bird screeching with terror

crowds of people are moving right through her
trampling, coughing, yelling, rushing
her attention disperses, disintegrating
sand on this beach, surrounded by ruins

a hospital clock ticks her awake
time's leaking faucet, relentless
strapped to a frame, exposed, she suffers
cliffside torture, tartarus, helpless

Artwork: By me, as usual.

Special Note: Somehow - hearing myself say 'sand' - I was momentarily transported back into a former composition of mine: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sand-2012-relic?in=sonic-textures/sets/relics

autumn hearted

Misophonia - with The Pull of the Past

Unfold AG

Feierabend

The scent of bitter almond forces memory from the darkness

Samples used include these artists and tracks: Firesign Theatre, Pharaoh Sanders , Alice Coltrane & Pharaoh Sanders,  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake (Free Audio Books for Intellectual Exercise), Captain Goodvibes, Cluster, Going Home – Fallen Soldier Tribute by Unidentified Piper, The Lithgow Highland Pipe Band, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Pere Ubu, Stomu Yamash’ta and a few (culled from ancient mixtape cassettes) that I can’t identify… yet.

The rest is original tracks, re-imaginings of some earlier tracks and field recordings made by me.

This is a 320kbps mp3 – a lossless copy (flac) may be obtained by contacting me by personal message.

The scent of bitter almond forces memory from the darkness

While working on this assignment, I found out once again how incredibly hard it is to do very little: Since music for meditation should allow for emptying the mind. It should not distract. And yet, there should be something there that helps one get into a spiritual, contemplative mood, let any thoughts pass and then, a state of non-thinking, of pure presence.

As a consequence, music for this purpose should/can have several properties:

Modal - which allows a stable, calm state of mind

Quietness and space - making sure the music doesn't overwhelm, neither by quantity nor by information overload

Far-eastern sound connotations - As in many "spiritual" purpose-made music releases, this seems to aid obtaining a certain mood, often by raga-type sounds, or sounds that get used in "puja" ceremonies in India (and heard in yoga/spiritual paraphernalia shops all over in places such as Rishikesh).


Since all of these are optional anyway - and are cliché-ridden on top of that -- I chose to simply use an electric guitar, for drone-like sounds, and after considering sitar-like moves, opted against those (for reasons of economy). Everything got recorded into Logic Pro, with generous helpings of delay and reverb, obviously.
I layered six guitar tracks (plus one track for the chime) on top of each other and tried for them not to get into each others' way too much, to allow for the composition to consist of very little information.
Enjoy your meditation!
More on this 323rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Music for Meditation: Record a piece of music suited to meditation) at:
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Music for Meditation

Music For Meditation [Disquiet0323]

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All Silver was created during the first days of the Corona shutdown.
Made with passion and modular synths.

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