funny assignment :) however the listening is much easily appreciated than an alien's translator job

Disquiet Junto Project 0532: Other Means
The Assignment: Make music about something you find difficult or unproductive to talk about.

Went for the 'unproductive' route. It's attempting to be a mediator, an interpreter, a compiler, a linker, with an alien species that talks in the language of a different species type. No Rosetta Stone here baby!

Track art - Creative Commons photo of Europa, and my closed mouth.

Thanks for listening. Hope you enjoy.

Alien Mediation (disquiet0532)

Sing to you
Words so true
Straight from the heart
No-one knows
Hold you close
Right from the start
Who should care?
Just be aware
We all play our part

CHORUS
We live a life so peaceful on our own
We built a life so perfect on our own
And life it has a purpose on our own
We're tired making excuses for aliens

Nothing wrong
We both belong
Forever entwined
For what its worth
We rule the Earth
And you blew my mind
It may sound bad
But I am glad
That we're both inclined

CHORUS
To live a life so peaceful on our own
To build a life so perfect on our own
As life it has a purpose on our own
We're tired making excuses for aliens

Excuses For Aliens

Brass Blues Send A Fax In 2022

...Kingdom, Ever Darkly

They crawl, they crawl

Dancing pen

Nada

StudioJam_120523. 
Torso T-1 is sequencing the ASM Hydrasynth and Pigments (Arturia) in Ableton. Reverb with Rooms (Death by Audio). In the background; drone soundscape and drums from some of my tracks in Ableton.
check the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9sVNlwRnUI

Interference II (extract)

Naviarhaiku 497

I cancelli e le porte sono aperte o sempre chiuse?
Se il portone si chiude sei dentro o sei fuori?
E sei sicuro che, se il tempio dorme, tutto sia perfettamente immobile, fermo e in silenzio?
Non ti senti in trappola, dove il sonno diventa incubo?
Lo vedi adesso il nemico?

"Ed un giorno mi disse
Entra ti aspetterò
Ma il nemico da sempre si cattura così
Apri bene la porta
Fallo entrare da te
Lei l'ha fatto settembre
Lei l'ha fatto con me"

Alberto Fortis  Settembre   1981



Are the gates and doors open or always closed?
If the gate closes are you in or are you out?
And are you sure that, if the temple sleeps, everything is perfectly still, static and silent?
Don't you feel trapped, where sleep becomes nightmare?
Do you see the enemy now?

"And one day she told me
Come in, I'll wait for you
But the enemy has always been caught like this
Open the door well
Let him in for you
She did it September
She did it with me"

Alberto Fortis "September" 1981

Settembre - The Gate Shuts (naviarhaiku497)

This is my first music making experiment in response to a prompt from Disquiet Junto. The prompt was to think of something I often do when making music and approach it differently. 

I often end up layering arpeggio-like things, partly because I like how it sounds and partly, maybe, to feel like I'm making something "complicated" and therefor impressive. I decided to avoid that and attempt more simplicity...or at least to bring in the complexity elsewhere.

I also rely a bit on midi instruments and quantizing (my rhythm isn't great). While there is still some midi stuff in there, I didn't start with it. I actually laid down some vocals first that ended up mostly being removed or moved. I also used an old Concertmate I found on the street (Radioshack's version of the simple Casio) for the main bass drum and bass sounds. 

After trying several things that weren't working for me, I ended up dipping into my voice memos in my phone and found a recording of me just playing a riff on the piano and singing nonsense, mumbly, improvised lyrics. I then shifted other elements to built the song around that.

nervous (disquiet0614)

Sinny: cymbal screeches, knives, knocking, stomps, growls, whimpers, gasps, icicles, Logic synths

Thesoundcatcher: waterphone sample

More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

The cover image (enlarged, type added) is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull#/media/File:3d_CT_scan_animation.gif

That image is credited to Arielinson and used thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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Screeching Spirits (disquiet0617)

Reset

Comme je Trouve... Take me as you find me. 
I stand at the edge of Europe. Ocean surrounds me. I catch the odd storm. 
There is no more.

Alien Mediation (disquiet0532)

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