Prepared piano

 

naviarhaiku560 – daybreak!

The haiku shared by Naviar Records comes as I'm enjoying the return of sunlight.

Six bands

Disquiet Junto 0665 Clicks + Cuts Music Factory

The Junto assignment this week is to "Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski."

I liked the industrial minimalism and the emphasis on sampling, so I found some recordings made on my old work phone that I'd been meaning to remix.

Flashback

Nine years ago I played a live set at a Burning Seed event the organiser later described as "an all-female line-up," which just goes to show how useful it is to have a pseudonym.

The same women went on to form Lunachicks at the decompression event in Melbourne that followed.

Come on guys

 

naviarhaiku559 – misty spring rains

My mind turned to the haiku shared by Naviar Records when I came up with this wry chord progression while playing with ideas in a 29/16 time signature.

After developing my Junto track I kept thinking I should do more with this draft.

I exported it a few times after marrying it with a video I shot at the Marea Bright exhibition currently in the Museum of the Riverina.

Today I pushed myself to add a lead part and developed a melancholy kinda melody to suit the haiku.

When you work on your mix

 

Disquiet Junto 0664 Mother Beat

The Junto assignment this week is to "Record a piece of music in 29/16 time."

It was about six months ago that I was talking with my son Oscar about how much I enjoy using strange time signatures as a prompt.

He started to talk about a Mother videogame, which is one that he's often discussed, explaining there's a penultimate level where the music is in 29/16.

I thought it sounded wild, so I played around and wrote some songs in Live using this time signature.

Then I told Marc that I thought it would be a fun prompt for the Junto.

This week he came back to me and, as Oscar is home from uni for the holidays, I got him to look at the wording and we added the detail about the name of the original tune in Mother 3.

Last night I began composing with the time signature and came up with a couple of ideas.

I might get back to working on the other, but thought I'd publish this one in the mean time.

Unfortunately I still have uni homework to complete.

Ambient nature sounds

 

Disquiet Junto 0663 Drive Way

The Disquiet Junto assignment this week is to "Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive."

I have a laptop with a noise hard drive, so first I recorded it.

Then I found a take I'd recorded on the drums and added organ, 303 and bass.

Finally, I gated the hard drive and automated effects.

After all why

 

Disquiet Junto 0662 Spin Cycle

The Disquiet Junto prompt this week is to "Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another."

After a big weekend I had time to record one take before the space ran out on my digital media.

Then I threw a bunch of effects onto the duplicated takes to make them sound like rivals.

10 years

naviarhaiku557 – I write, erase, rewrite

 

The haiku shared by Naviar Records was an opportunity to revisit an earlier recording.