The Disquiet Junto assignment this week is to "Read a page of text from a book as if it were a musical score."
I settled on page 18 from the introduction to Matsuo Basho's The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
The layout of the page appealed to me, as it looked like it might be a drum intro and it was 8 August -- so I thought I should use 808 samples.
The syllables became high-hats, while the capitals denoted kick drum and the punctuation triggered sound effects from the M-Tron Pro VST.
Then I decided to add a riser to convey the interpretive text, as it kinda serves to raise the rest of the writing.
And, finally, I flicked back to the contents page and took that last entry's page number to be the tempo.