More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

Disquiet Junto | Jeux D'enfants | Kaleidoscope  - disquiet0677

Slinky & Spectrum (disquiet0677)

A new game for new children in a new century, echoes of old mistakes, history on repeat, maybe next time! Lets go to the moon, but not without anticipation, passion, wonder, and regret. Would they recognise themselves as children?

A tribute too Georges Bizet's Op 22 for piano, go listen.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_d%27enfants_(Bizet)

This piano is electric, as is the bass, the found sounds are eclectic: cornwall and NASA, in flight, and in repose. The space inhabited is by Sean Costello/Valhalla DSP.

NASA recordings used by permission, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://freesound.org/people/DudeAwesome/sounds/386070/

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Jeux d'Enfants Nouveaux - La Fusée

Jeux d'Enfants Nouveaux - La Fusée (disquiet 0677)

Very Sexy Girl (disquiet0677)

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku572-cool-breeze/

YT Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/-_S7gzCx_ZI?si=AghEZtxCUCEtrLG5

on the green paddies-naviarhaiku572

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt recalled the Jeux d'enfants ("Games for Children") compositions of George Bizet, and suggested creating our own work inspired by a toy or game. I decided pretty quickly on that childhood favorite, the ouija board. 

The seed of the song came from a rambling piano improvisation over a simple placeholder 4-note bass line. I chopped and arranged the interesting parts of the piano to form sections, then recorded fresh performances for each one. I was too lazy to play my actual bass but I spent a long time recording and refining the synthetic bass part. The percussion is handful of simple hand-rolled patterns on a modeled Roland CR-78.

I went back and forth on whether to include samples, and to what degree. I settled on the scrape of the planchette and the ghostly voice of the girl in the ouija board, responding to the unheard questions from the person whose hands are on the planchette. My hope is for the listener to place themselves in that role and enter into dialog with the spirit.

Enjoy with headphones in a candle-lit room.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0677

The Girl from the Ouija Board (disquiet0677)

More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

I imaged three children playing an improvised game of parkour, jumping over obstacles, chasing each other. Musically this is three improvised synth phrases with added snippets of vocals.

The vocals I lifted from this mix https://on.soundcloud.com/XQfaAnJYwffGgTAy9

Disquiet0677 - Guet Usecho

The prompt for this track:

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

Naviar Haiku Challenge 581,details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A fair amount of experimentation with ways to represent the haiku, some more successful and obvious than others, the rippling sequence is more inspired by the image than the poem but I kept it in to move the music forward.

Other than the samples, sourced from freesound:

rowing boat from inside.wav by Fenodyrie -- https://freesound.org/s/588307/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
oar.wav by bruno.auzet -- https://freesound.org/s/525030/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Everything was made in virtual modular using a combination of VCV Rack and Voltage Modular.  Running VM as a plugin allowed me to run both in parallel and make a single take multitrack recording. 

Disquiet0677 - Guet Usecho

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