what i hate most about hold music is the manipulative chirpiness and the repetition

i wanted it to retain that sense of easy listening, the classic elements of strings and gentle beats, but i also wanted a complexity there so that the closer you listen the more that's going on..

i had 2 beats going on using percumat 2, lots of variation and feedback.
a high frequency arpeggio with gradual rate changes and increasing randomization of notes (iris 2)
another iris 2 track for the strings with reverse delay and reverb
the iris2 tracks are controlled by a pretty random midi line going through a c minor harmonic scale module in live 8, there's some automation on the volumes too.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0335: Alone Time
Record conference-call hold music — a private limbo of your own making.

Major thanks to Matt Pinto for having proposed this Junto project prompt.

Step 1: Hold music is a ubiquitous fact of modern life. Ask yourself what hold music you’d like to hear while waiting for someone to pick up the other end of the line, or while waiting for a conference call to begin.

Step 2: Record a short piece of hold music that satisfies the scenario you pondered in Step 1. Your finished track should be suitable for looping, since you never know how long you’re going to be on hold.

your current wait time is <x> minutes (disquiet0335)

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