OMG cringe

 

Disquiet Junto 0464 Blanket Song

The Disquiet Junto project this week involves covering a song, but smothering it and then removing the original track.

I chose a modern classic and improvised parts to make it my own.

Things that make you a better musician

Katie Harkin on creating

When I was a little kid, I used to love to make collages, so it sometimes feels like that. I definitely approach things from the emotional end first. I mean, I’d say this and I could change my ways tomorrow, but usually when I write a song I know at least the vague feeling of what it’s about, even if I haven’t put it into words yet. Part of that is sort of deciphering unconsciousness, as much as it is like being a biographer. The times when I have been the happiest with my songs is when they feel like a medium somewhere between the two. I was setting out to do something specific, and then something else was conjured because of being prepared to confront something. Getting into that confrontational mode will unlock surprising things.

Drive It Like You Stole It

No need to panic

Disquiet Junto 0463 Making the Gradient

The Junto project this week is to "Make a piece of music inspired by the concept of a gradient."

I've chosen to let the gradient make the music on my theremin, which I'd recently unpacked to set-up my instant Indian orchestra with the tabla machine.

Long Distance Dan

Happy to have contributed a bassline to the new Long Distance Dan album.

Moaner Lisa

 

Disquiet Junto 0462 Vade in Pace

The Disquiet Junto activity this week is to "write a short piece of music that gets slower and slower as it proceeds."

Come back

Disquiet Junto 0461 Goldilocks Zone

The Junto activity this week navigates a "sonic space between the hospitable and the inhospitable."