Disquiet Junto 0770 Reverb x Reverb

The assignment is to: "Use some reverb. Then use some more."

I grabbed the guitars that I've been jamming with recently through Chase Bliss pedals driven with an Omnichord.

There's a ukulele (with a Klon clone) and a bass that each have a Habit pedal, as well as a 626 drum machine going through Generation Loss and the ride has Onward. 

With a plan to add reverb, I recorded four mono tracks with these pedals and edited them a little (like dropping out drums in places). 

There was some reverb added, like Lossy on the bass, then two reverbs added with busses.

These were Capitol and Motown emulations on guitars and drums, with some cross-pollination.

Normally I probably wouldn't add so much reverb to bass, but I think it sits okay. 

Mellow Tron

 

Disquiet Junto 0769 Let's Poetic

The prompt for the Junto this week is "Do something poetic." 

It brought to mind a file in my folder of lyrics that developed from a poem about a swamp.

Fivebough Wetland is a significant site for birds and I had a piece published that recalled a visit before sunrise.

Today I recorded those lyrics and put them to a file in my folder of song ideas.

Footage from here. 

Mistakes make you stronger

 

Disquiet Junto 0768 Remix Therapy

 

The Assignment: Do yourself a favor and re-work it out. 

There is one step for this project: Take care of yourself by remixing something.

Lately I’ve been wondering about how older music seems kinda reserved. 

Partly it was prompted by a friend commenting on the Angry Women Music at a local concert.

Anyway, I recorded the track here and had been wondering if it’s better to make music with less angst?

So, as a way of working out my trauma with a remix, I answered that question “always”

 

When you listen

 

Disquiet Junto 0767 Your Move

The Junto this week is to  "Record background music to have playing while playing a specific board game."

When you come back from vacation

 

Disquiet Junto 0766 Rock Math

 

Mathematics is wasted on the young.

The Junto this week asks one to consider how a label like "math rock" might be subdivided, such as algebra or calculus.

I feel as though I am not familiar with either the genre or the discipline to give math the attention it deserves.

In my recent foray into teaching I found the subject to be a lot more interesting than I remembered of my time in school.

To begin I asked advice of my family and it seemed to provide a distinctly wide-ranging survey of the field.

My son studies extended mathematics in high school and began pondering co-sine equations as a way to generate sound, which was more advanced than I was willing to consider.

In contrast my partner chuckled at the thought of the "dummy maths" class and this seemed better suited for rock.

The little I know of "math rock" is the idea of using varying time signatures in composition and I really enjoy layering loops of differing lengths for the generative quality it adds.

However, my existing ideas were all a bit jazzy for rock.

So I began making riffs and that led me to add a 303, because it always seems a way to add energy to MIDI instrumentation and I think it rocks.

The public domain footage from Archive seemed perfect for the "dummy" class flavour and also captured something of my new found interest in mathematics.

 

Me walking into the music store

 

naviarhaiku660 – shrine fence

The haiku shared by Naviar Records this week prompted me to think of how a person might disappear into the background. 

There's our little producer

Disquiet Junto 0765 Sonic Kin

The Junto assignment this week is to "Give space to the unheard voices of animals."

I sometimes hear dogs in the neighbourhood complaining on cold mornings.

This morning I was having a conversation with my partner that brought to mind the unhappiness of animals and how we live in an area characterised by industrial agriculture.

For example, nearby there are hundreds of sheds that surround the largest chicken-processing facility in the southern hemisphere.

So my mind started pondering giving a voice for animals and I wrote lyrics, then constructed a song.