I like these off tune slides, unsettling.

Yoga Yoga

dragon seed

Raymond's lovely haiku inspired this sparse improvisation on guitar (Les Paul) plus effects. Recorded and mixed in Reaper; mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Spring Meadow (naviarhaiku495)

20 Days until Halloween

a nightmare on elem street 3

[disquiet] 0621 Lyra Leftover

Think Of The Morning After

Road For That Cash

The Assignment: Count your tools in advance of employing them.

The assignment prompted some — almost philosophical — questions about what I would consider a tool, or a piece of equipment, in my music making practice. 
I often work with complex effect chains in software, using different devices and plugins as building blocks for devices that I work and interact with — by means of custom-coded control mechanisms — as if they were a single, coherent thing. So would I consider such a device chain as a single piece of equipment? Or multiple pieces? Who decides what makes a thing a thing? The manufacturer? The user?
Trying not to get stuck (again) in overthinking, I opted — rather arbitrarily — for the manufacturer point of view: if it’s packaged as a thing, then let’s say its a thing.

For the piece, I was thinking I’d like to try and make something using a duduk I’d recently bought. The range of the duduk is somewhat limited (octave + 2 notes), so I thought I’d extend that range by using a granular delay effect that also does pitch shifting. 
So the piece would consist of two main pieces of equipment: duduk and granular delay. 
However, taking into account recording equipment, the DAW and some “utility” effects, I figured I’d definitely need a bunch more to actually make the piece. So I set 10 as a limit: this seemed doable, while still presenting something of a challenge. Which it did. I had to forego EQ (though using some filters inside other devices) and a dedicated limiter (re-using a compressor). Interesting… 

So here’s the list of 10:
Duduk, microphone, audio interface, headphones, DAW, granular delay, compressor, reverb, pitch shifting/stretching algorithm baked into the DAW, tuning device (duduk is quite hard to play in tune, especially for a novice like myself; having visual feedback of the frequency I was blowing was much needed).

Ten for Two (disquiet0630)

My Life

Muffled Sonata in A minor, Andante, by Georg Philipp Telemann, overlaid with a slightly sinister orchestra of Baby Audio Atoms, TAL Sampler, and Arturia Pigments.
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More on the 634th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Bust a Move — The Assignment: Record a piece of music on top of a muffled recording of a piece of classical music — at https://disquiet.com/0634/

on telemann (disquiet0634)

disquiet0635 - squeamish peptides

Drifting Moments is part of Stellar Echoes, an ambient album that immerses listeners in the solitude and grandeur of interstellar travel. From abandoned space stations to distant star systems, the music evokes a sense of wonder and contemplation, inviting listeners to lose themselves in the infinite expanse of the universe.
Album: https://soundcloud.com/jaycbrewer/sets/stellar-echoes

on telemann (disquiet0634)

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