Naviarhaiku228 – A snail
Disquiet Junto 0333 Half Evil
The Junto this week asks for a piece of music that could be described as half evil.
I had a funky 12-bar blues riff that I thought would sound a bit evil with a drop D-tuned guitar part.
The result sounds a little like Queens of the Stone Age to me, which might be considered half evil.
Maybe.
Naviarhaiku227 – Morning coolness
Something in the image of a spider web blowing in the breeze reminded me of the lyrics I'd written about a weed known as Hairy Panic, presumably because when it gets in your trousers it feels like an army of spiders climbing your leg.
In an effort to avoid forgetting the lyrics, I published them on my ShowcaseJase blog a couple of years ago.
I relished the opportunity to record each part in a single take. This meant recording up to half a dozen times and you can hear some of those other takes accompanying those shown in the videos, with both the vocal and guitar part supported with two takes each panned to widen the track.
G'day!
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Disquiet Junto 0332 Lucky Numbers
The Junto this week asks how a string of numbers might inform a short musical composition and directs participants to research recent lottery results.
Then I decided to search for the numbers in my back-up files and selected the first video from the results for each.
This material was then remixed.
Many of the source files came from previous Junto projects, one is a television commercial that I didn't have any role in but ended up in my files because I contributed other videos to Bidgee Binge programs.
I wanted to get a different file but it was the only result and in the end provided a fat kick.
One highlight was hearing my partner ask "Is that Cliff Martinez?" while I was working on it.
Struggling with guitar AF
Disquiet Junto 0331 Born Under a Bad Sine
The Disquiet Junto this week asks "What does it sound like when a robot has the blues?"
If I were programming a robot to deal with the blues, I'd instruct it to dance.
You're only ever a few minutes from happiness if you have a song you like to dance to.
I've recorded a few riffs on my MIDI guitar and then sought a few robot-like presets.
Video comes courtesy of NASA.
Disquiet Junto 0330 Wax Off
The Disquiet Junto this week asks participants to "make a piece of music by erasing aspects of a pre-existing track."
I settled on having a go at 'Lame Brain' from a previous Junto, in part because I wanted a track that was recent enough to still be on my computer.
I'd thought it would be easy to take the arrangement and use the guitar recordings, rather than the MIDI parts that had driven cello and viola parts.
However, I found that I'd erased the guitar recordings in the project file and had to go back to the recording and start there.
As a result, this track is a different arrangement because I'd already erased aspects.
Disquiet Junto 0328 Sonic Pentimento
The Junto this explores the sonic equivalent of "a visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint on a canvas."
I've interpreted this drawing on a few ideas, including using one of the drafts I'd started when responding to the Junto last week and incorporating elements from the song I wrote for the last Naviar Records' haiku.
And the video includes a toasted sandwich that I've been planning for a while: a sandwich within a sandwich.
Naviarhaiku222 – Ghostly melody
When that was written I'd forgotten the melody that I'd awoken to find in my head, which often happens.
So for my response I decided to draw on other haiku I've written, compiling a collection and jamming on them until lyrics began to form:
Sleep a dark rough sea
shipwreck surrounding mystery
she hides
many things
Ripples reflecting streaming light
a thought surfacing in the night
both shallow and deep
rivers of consciousness while we sleep
Under morning glow
magpies gently chortle song
brightening my day
while the shadows are long
Ghostly melody
follow me into my day
fragment of a dream
won’t you please stay
Cockatoos exclaim
echoing among river red gums
morning has broken
and so am I
On the dry dawn breeze
a chattering in the trees
if birds knew words
I’d hear headlines
Ghostly melody
follow me into my day
fragment of a dream
come what may
Riding as dusk falls
nostalgia induced shopping malls
looking backwards
while moving ahead
Materialise
handwritten words on a page
watching thoughts appear
feeling my age
As days flutter by
they must feel like full lifetimes
to a butterfly
Ghostly melody
follow me into my day
fragment of a dream
leading me astray
Disquiet Junto 0327 Time Zoned
The Junto this week reminded me how good it is to use a 3/4 time signature for basslines.
I also like using unlikely time signatures when making soundtracks for my toasted sandwich videos.
So I took the opportunity to make both a 3/4 bassline and a sandwich.
The Latin percussion follows 7/4 and an 808 beats 2/4, as well as an organ and cello both in 4/4.
This is my 140th Disquiet Junto video and my 27th Remarkable Sandwich.
It's also the third sandwich I've shared with the Junto :)
Naviarhaiku221 – Spring approaches
In the meantime I'll be swimming in Leeton Pool, which is where my son shot the video I've purloined to accompany my track.
Disquiet Junto 0326 Wave Turntable
The Junto this week asks for a composition using only sine waves and turntable surface noise.
My piece used a couple of sine wave presets from Ableton's Operator synth and a few recordings of a dusty turntable.
The bassline was made with the hum of the turntable as it turned on, dropped down an octave.
You can see in the video that the percussive parts came from the initial contact of the needle on the record, which is an album of bushdance songs that my partner likes.
There's a long take of the surface noise from the end of the album to play throughout.
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