My synths

 

Cute kit

Bought a small drum kit and am enjoying the portability.

I had to put a couple of pillows in the kick and the snare rattles a bit, since it's attached.

The cymbals were mine, but I wasn't using them and am now enjoying the '70s-sounding deeper snare and darker hats.

Love this idea!

Listening can change your relationship with a space, particularly the way recording changes an experience of time.

Then there's the disorienting aspect of microphones and their influence on proximity, which can shift focus.

TV drumming

Cleaning

 

Disquiet Junto 0706 Tile One On

The project has one step, "record something that makes use of the acoustics of your bathroom." 

I took the opportunity to make my first recording of a cute little secondhand drum kit that I bought.

It has a snare attached to the kick drum, which rattles a bit, but I'm thinking that I might leave that off for my Fire Cracker snare in future.

Wasn't sure what to add, so I grabbed my ukulele and started with the G minor chord that gets used a lot. 

Me watching

 

naviarhaiku600 – thinking of us

The 600th project from Naviar Records was a milestone that I wanted to recognise. 

Their haiku reminded me there was footage I'd shot of the trees during autumn, which allowed me to go look through my files for a piece of music.

I've tried to incorporate atmosphere and a crunchiness for the leaves.

Brian Jungen on sensing the force of creation

I live near three large hydro electric dams. Sometimes I go visit them to hear the sound of the electrical energy produced there as I feel like it is the closest I can get to any sense of the force of the creation of the universe that exists on our planet. 

Rick Moranis in Honey

 

Disquiet Junto 0705 Book Start

The Junto assignment this week is to "Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music."

I've read the opening to Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, which I began this week because I enjoyed her book on Alexander Von Humboldt. 

He said he was going

 

Lyra Pramuk on putting art first

I went to public school in Pennsylvania, and as is the case in many American public schools—especially in small towns—art and music are side things. Like, “Okay, you don’t really have time for these; it doesn’t really matter.” I’m like, “If art, music, therapy, and all these other things that are put on the side were actually put in the center, it would drastically affect culture and how we live our daily lives.” If we’re stuck surviving, it’s because we live in a world that does not value creativity. And I value creativity, and I believe that creativity is for more than just arts and crafts, or music or dance or painting, or any of these things. Creativity is essential for being alive. It’s essential to create culture. It’s essential to being a sentient human being in community, in ecosystem with other living beings on this planet.

Disquiet Junto 0704 Right on Cumulus

The Junto prompt this week is to "compose 8-bit music" and I was kinda stumped.

I looked at using some of the Nintendo-sounding presets on the Kaossilators that my son has been using recently for an assignment, then decided to try the Bitquest pedal that arrived this week. 

It's being run through the Chase Bliss Habit pedal for delay/looping, while I cycle through a few settings.