naviarhaiku547 – night deepening…
As for the video, it's another that I downloaded from Archive.org for a different project and was available on my desktop.
Disquiet Junto 0652 By the Tale
The Disquiet Junto project this week is to "Set a favorite story to music."
My partner suggested that I should use my Totem Story, which I wrote last year and like a lot but it got a mixed reaction from the judges of a competition.
(They thought it was inappropriate for me to write from a First Nations' perspective, which I can understand is not my experience to represent even if it is historical fiction.)
Anyway, recently I've been playing with the M-Tron Pro VST and used it for all the instrumentation except the drums.
I was aiming for a sense of uncertainty, as well as incorporating a human voice and obviously the organ is there for the religious moments.
The video came from Archive.org and was something I had on hand that seemed to suit the music, although it has nothing to do with the story.
naviarhaiku546 – The figure of a man
It features a man addressing a different sort of storm and offered a good challenge to remix the material into a song.
Disquiet Junto 0651 Why Compute?
It was my response to this week’s prompt:
Lewis asks, “Why do we want our computers to improvise?”
This week’s project: record a piece of music that responds in some way to Lewis’ question.
I often use the Random effect, as it adds little variations to the loops I make.
Today I ramped the effect up to 100% and found that Ableton Live's onboard instruments started to crap themselves.
So I sent the information out to my Roland Boutique rack and recorded the results.
Dunno, weirdly it doesn't seem so unpredictable.
Maybe I should've shifted a few more parameters?
Disquiet Junto 0650 Doppler, Interrupted
The Disquiet Junto project this week asks participants to "Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely."
I've used my tenor guitar with some pedals that were at hand, although the recording is noisy in a way that I didn't intend -- maybe the lights?
naviarhaiku544 – out of my dreams
This weekend I fitted a double-kick pedal to a bongo drum and tuned the bass banjo, then spent days jamming on riffs.
Eventually my partner ventured that it needed something and suggested the frog.
Disquiet Junto 0649 Concerto for [ ]
The Junto prompt led me to read a little about concerto and I got the impression that it's been one of those types of events where people have shown flair in ways.
So I started pondering what I'd want to see given the solo performer treatment and pulled out my Omnichord thinking that I could finally write a song that showcased electric toothbrushes.
Then I began to ponder my lead instrument and looked around a bit more, before arriving at the video of cowbells. These are near my office and sometimes I hear visitors using them.
So I added a beat, as one does, then thought what sounds would support a cowbell solo?
naviarhaiku543 – rain on the cherry blossoms
Disquiet Junto 0648 Shadow Boxing
This competition has given me a focus on the rehabilitation of Griffith's auxillary water tank, as I've sketched it in various media as the scaffolding progressed to the current protective skin.
So the idea of shadow boxing seemed to be picking a musical fight. Today I assembled a scaffold of my own and hit the record button.
You can see I've used Behringer's 606 and 303 with Chase Bliss' Condor and Generation Loss pedals, as well as a Korg FM Volca and a Shure SM7.
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