Disquiet Junto 0764 Zoo Review

There is one step for the project: "Since the Disquiet Junto is a community, create the sense of an animal communal gathering by combining processed animal sounds into an original recording."

Honestly, at first I wasn't sure that I needed to do the Junto activity this week.

I've recorded a similar sort of song about 20 years ago and didn't think I could improve on it.

However, when I looked at my Facebook Memories today there was a theme and it encouraged me to reconsider.

It seemed as though a couple of my posts from this date in previous years were pointing me toward this project.

So I settled on seven creatures that I thought I could imitate and recorded myself.

Then it was a matter of gating and looping and selecting effects to create a short tune. 

They just raised the volume

 

naviarhaiku659 – bright enough

The haiku shared by Naviar Records demanded a pace for losing sight of something as celestial as the moon.

Under the same moon

Write your name

When you yawn

 

naviarhaiku658 – Among bare branches

The haiku shared by Naviar this week intrigued me, but I wondered if I was missing something.

So I asked a large-language model to consider the poem and interpret it as song lyrics.

The first response didn't really grab me, but it had the line "my ears yawn open" which I liked.

Then I pondered the idea of going out on a limb and the sense of the sky being a view of the unknown.

This morning I finished writing and recorded lyrics using a simple melody and tried a few musical ideas before settling on a dancefloor banger. 

Puts on hearing glasses

 

Disquiet Junto 0763 3 Pedestals

The Junto instruction this week is to "Make music with three sounds: one you love, one you dislike, and one you consider to be neutral."

I started playing with this typewriter instructional movie for a different song.

The first sound with the periscope comes from the beginning and is one I love, while the stopwatch is neutral and the soundtrack I dislike.

You can hear that in how much I manipulate them, as the soundtrack is divided into two to be repitched and gated while the other parts largely stay recognisable. 

Don't shred on me

 

naviarhaiku657 – In the mountain village

The haiku shared by Naviar Records this week captures something of the weather here.

I have the fire burning but it's not cold enough for snow, so rain is falling.

There was a melody in my head that I quickly arranged and arrived at something that sound to me a bit like one of Aphex Twin's earlier (so-called) Ambient Works. 

This led me to play around with the timing of the parts as the piece progresses. 

White suburban mother