Disquiet Junto 0411 Wrapped Up

The Junto this week prompted me to finish a song I wrote last year.

'Wild at Heart' tells the story of how I met my partner.

Taylor Swift writes

Disquiet Junto 0410 Op Audio

The Disquiet Junto this week asks:

What does the sonic equivalent of Op Art sound like?

I'd been considering adding delay to something and then, while sitting in a yoga class, had the idea of a tap dripping.

I've added reverb to give a sense of the room growing bigger.

Wake-up call

Disquiet Junto 0409 Spooky 3.0

The Junto this week has a Halloween theme, asking for something that makes spooky music spookier.

It reminded me of the breathing sounds in Doom and how much atmosphere they added to the game.

So I've recorded myself and added that to a track built from bowed cymbals and things that might go bump in the night (except it was Friday afternoon).

Thom Yorke on songwriting

Then there’s progression in terms of technical things. Forcing yourself to find new methods of coming up with chord progressions or melodic ideas, finding a new piece of software or hardware that’s exciting. You want to feel as if once you’ve developed a method it should no longer work, because when you tell yourself, “O.K., I’ve got this now” that’s the point where things fall apart. Lyrically, it’s a different thing. I usually have to throw out the stuff when I understand what it means — it’s too flat. Lyrics should be a series of windows opening rather than shutting, which is incredibly hard to do. First-world problems, though.

This is not bass

Earthwords & Soundscaping