naviarhaiku617 – an autumn nightfall

The haiku shared by Naviar Records this week reminded me of a song I'd started writing about a fish.

Murray cod are Australia's largest freshwater fish and, as a freshwater person, I kinda relate to it. 

In particular, the line about the skeleton prompts me to share this remarkable discovery: 

Archaeological otoliths from midden sites in the Lower Murray River region that are at least 5000 years old, show that in the past, monstrous Murray cod (more than 220 centimetres long!) once lived in this part of the river, and were targeted by the Indigenous people who lived there, the Ngarrindjeri. 

These fish are known to be protective fathers and travel long distances, like salmon, to return to their home to spawn.

They nearly were made extinct by large-scale fishing and, in recent years, have become an aquaculture crop.

If I drive west there are many breeding ponds where cod are grown for meat, and if I drive east there's the John Lake Centre where the techniques for propagation were documented.

The story is that Lake was told a cod had taken residence in a neighbouring dam, where he found it used a 44-gallon drum like it was a treehollow for spawning young.

Anyway, I can talk about cod for a while since I put together an exhibition about them.

Chillin' like Bob Dylan

I've been spending too much time looking at guitars, but among all the photos I saw last night was this screenshot puportedly from Bob Dylan about a musical process. 

Now, I love reading about processes used by artists, so it has been interesting to ponder where some of Bob's melodies arise because he's got more than a few.

Local music supporter

 

Disquiet Junto 0722 Spook Street

The Junto assignment is to "Make music for a haunted spy film."

My first step was playing with the "Black sabbath" sounds in the M-Tron, but it didn't go anywhere.

Next evening I decided to explore a spy theme and thought I'd start with a 5/4 time signature like Mission Impossible.

I don't think the result has that timing, but the idea was moving.

Added a few more parts and found the horror trailer, then thought I should finish before Halloween faded.

Anybody would like to say something?

 

naviarhaiku616 – whenever we meet

I thought to respond to the haiku shared by Naviar Records because it's raining.

This is my favourite pedal board at present, although the mix in the video has a lot of post effects too.

There were a few takes but the above version was concise and features a cameo from my youngest.

Dunno, the version below is longer and seems to work better?

So I said to him

Disquiet Junto 0721 Well Weathered

The Disquiet Junto prompt this week is to "Record a track in which you play along with the storm."

I found a wonderful storm on Archive.org by Brother Elias and played my bass along while it screened.

There were a number of takes, but I edited this part since it captured some of my favourite ideas.

I also thought I'd record a piece explaining my Junto process, since I haven't been giving it much reflection in recent years.

Era