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Hello Hollow

It's Not a Secret At All

Mars à portée de main
Guy-Frank Pellerin: saxophone(s) soprano 
Stefano Agostini: flute traversière

Mars à portée de main / S. Agostini & G.F. Pellerin

A section (piano melody, bass, piano, mallets piano and field recording backing tracks)
B section (piano melody is routed to a percussion sample bank, randomly triggering percussive sounds, backing tracks continue)
A section (piano melody returns over backing tracks)

For this challenge @disquiet:
Step 1: There’s a now famous quote from the opening of the 2006 film The Prestige. It goes as follows. Give it a read:

“Every magic trick consists of three parts – or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird, or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it – to see if it is, indeed, real. You know: unaltered, normal. But of course … it probably isn’t. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now, you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough. You have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call the Prestige.”

Step 2: This arc, moving from Pledge to Turn to Prestige, can be read as a take on the classic ABA structure, in which a theme is introduced, then something else occurs, and then the piece returns to where it began.

Step 3: Compose and record a piece of music that takes the process described in The Prestige as its blueprint.

Photo by Javardh-F
Composed and performed  by DD May 16th 2021

Miniature 10 "The Prestige" (disquiet0489)

Inhale, exhale. Harsh bells and  slow breathing ambience, derived from little Electric Chord Organ  which you can hear start up at the start of the track. Bell sounds resynthesized and manipulated using Metasynth on a recording of the chord organ sequence.

Made in response to this beautiful haiku by Masaoka Shiki with thanks to Marco and Naviar Haiku 

The ocean in June:
Inhaling and exhaling,
But never speaking.

TheOceanOfSadStoriesNeverSpoken(NaviarHaiku389)

Simpatico

This started out as a piano piece in 2018 but then decided to expand it into a atmospheric piece when I was working on the Waiting CD.

Leaping Tiger Gorge

deer in headlights

Ein Haufen guter Freunde haben offenbar eine gute Zeit miteinander. So sollt ihr spielen! (2004)

Ein Haufen guter Freunde

This is just one of many mixes on the 420 theme.

420/2020 a day like today

ꪖᦓꫝꪻ᥅ꪖꪗ ᥅ꪮꪻꪖꪻ꠸ꪀᧁ ꪻ꠸ꪑꫀ

𝚃𝚞𝚗𝚎𝚜, 𝚗𝚘𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚜, 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚜, 𝚍𝚊𝚏𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏

ꪖᦓꫝꪻ᥅ꪖꪗ ᥅ꪮꪻꪖꪻ꠸ꪀᧁ ꪻ꠸ꪑꫀ

𝚅𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙲𝙷

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