naviarhaiku464 – from the mist
Disquiet Junto 0569 Think Thank
The Disquiet Junto project this week is to "Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for."
I think this has become something of an annual feature, as I seem to remember previous Thanksgiving Day-themed projects.
And I'm fairly certain that for those I thanked my partner, Jo.
This week I'm using the Zoia Empress pedal, which has been getting a lot of use.
The other day as I was jamming on this chord progression, my partner walked in to say she thought the pedal was one of my best purchases because she liked the sounds and that I was playing my guitar more often.
So I'm grateful for Jo's support and encouragement.
Disquiet Junto 0568 Slumber Mill
The Junto project this week is to "Create a piece of music that begins with the hallmarks of a nightmare and then gradually transforms into a more positive piece through the use of piano chord C6/9."
You can see that I tried to use a bunch of things.
First I tried to program the chord into my Subharmonicon and then added a nightmarish quality with a drum machine circuit bent by Diabolical Devices, as well as my Atomosynth Mochika running through a bass synth pedal.
Then I attempted to play the chord on my Organelle through a variety of patches.
The title came from a weird dream I had last night, which involved trying to leave an unhappy musical therapy session and finding it was being held in a sprawling share house populated with hip younger people.
naviarhaiku462 – Icarus
The haiku shared by Naviar Records this week resonated with me after I read the comments from author Kimberly A. Horning:
"I began writing haiku about four years ago. I try to write daily, giving myself Sundays & holidays off. ‘Ku is a kind of discipline for me—much like a daily walk or yoga practice. Haiku quite simply saved my life.”
In 2017 I set myself a challenge to write a haiku everyday and it's a practice that I've mostly maintained since then.
However, when I learned that many of my poems were better described as senryu, I shifted my style and started a new blog to collect those pieces this year.
A couple of times in previous years I've collected poems as rensaku-style pieces and shared those as a response to Naviar prompts.
Last year I offered one of these pieces to an anthology of poetry written during the pandemic and the book launch was held last night.
As part of that event I decided to spice up my reading by using the Cut-up technique and set it to music.
You can see that my partner assisted me by pulling lines from out of a hat.
Horning's aim "try to write honestly about my struggles with depression" led me to think I should record a reading of my piece as a response to the prompt shared by Naviar this week.
Disquiet Junto 0567 Three Meters
The Junto assignment this week is to "Make music in 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 time signatures."
It took me a little while to transcribe a chord progression that I've been jamming on with a ukulele, then I plugged in a drum beat and a bass line.
To give it shape, I slip into 4/4 and then back to the original loops.
Not entirely sure I have the time signatures correct, as I was trying to use an arpeggiator to set one part, but I like the result for now.
Bassling at Navigate Arts
Disquiet Junto 0566 Outdoor Furniture Music
It sent my mind back to the recordings made while on a residency in Wyangala.
In particular I wanted to use the Pied Butcher Bird's song and I've taken a cue from the melody early in the piece, before the singing starts properly after the fifth minute.
My instrumentation is a wineglass preset in the M-Tron library with Valhalla's Supermassive for ambience.
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