A bit tangentially related the to haiku shared by Naviar this week, as I wrote a song inspired by this poem and added a video of my recent haiga exhibition.
A bit tangentially related the to haiku shared by Naviar this week, as I wrote a song inspired by this poem and added a video of my recent haiga exhibition.
The Junto assignment is to: Write a piece of music emulating the dopamine engine that is social media.
This is the last of the Chinchin videos that I downloaded from Archive.org and they’ve been fun to mix with my tracks by matching the tempo.
I reached for it when I had the image of an automaton doomscrolling being all robotic.
Like the video, all the song fragments came from my folder of unfinished Live files.
Then I had the idea of mashing it with the song I've been working on this afternoon.
It's not terrible and seems tangentially related to the subject matter.
The Junto assignment this week is to "Write music inspired by a crayon" or specifically a colour.
It's been hot enough to melt a crayon in Leeton this week with temperatures in the mid-40s.
My colour is soft blue as I found myself fantasising about the winters in Canberra, where I grew up.
There you have those bright high-altitude skies, where the sunlight seems crisp yet the air is frigid.
It brought to mind the crunch of frost and with it the "blonde assassin" in Emily Dickinson's poem, as well as the happy flowers and their impermanence.
So I riffed on her imagery and arrived at something about unrequited love, then riffed on the guitar.