This week’s project, the 103rd, is based on last week’s, the 102nd. The instructions are as follows:
Step 1: Select three different works from last week’s project, as collected at this URL:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet0102-sonictinsel
Step 2: Label them Source A, B, and C.
Step 3: Create an underlying foundation for a song by creating a loop-able segment structured as follows: four beats of Source A, four beats of Source B, four beats of Source A, four beats of Source C.
Step 4: Let that loop repeat twice before introducing any additional elements.
Step 5: Continue to loop the segment and augment/distort/filter it as you so desire, and introduce any additional material, toward the goal of creating an original piece of music.
Bonus Round: If you are inclined, create a chorus for the song by holding Source B for an extended period of time, and create a bridge by holding Source C for an extended period of time. Again, feel free to augment/distort/filter them.
After listening to the tracks recorded for the last Junto, I downloaded a bunch and began selecting bars. There was one false start that I couldn't get to sound pleasing, then an early second draft that got too busy.
So I stripped it back and then the samples sounded better next to each other. Then I began pursuing the 'bonus round' after settling on a bassline.
The resulting track sounded a bit empty and I considered writing lyrics to sing before remembering the piano part that had added a lot of harmonic interest when I started layering up samples. The percussion part was MIDI but the bassplaying is mine.
