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. 

When she looks through your phone

 

Disquiet Junto 0764 Zoo Review

There is one step for the project: "Since the Disquiet Junto is a community, create the sense of an animal communal gathering by combining processed animal sounds into an original recording."

Honestly, at first I wasn't sure that I needed to do the Junto activity this week.

I've recorded a similar sort of song about 20 years ago and didn't think I could improve on it.

However, when I looked at my Facebook Memories today there was a theme and it encouraged me to reconsider.

It seemed as though a couple of my posts from this date in previous years were pointing me toward this project.

So I settled on seven creatures that I thought I could imitate and recorded myself.

Then it was a matter of gating and looping and selecting effects to create a short tune. 

They just raised the volume

 

naviarhaiku659 – bright enough

The haiku shared by Naviar Records demanded a pace for losing sight of something as celestial as the moon.

Under the same moon

Write your name

When you yawn

 

naviarhaiku658 – Among bare branches

The haiku shared by Naviar this week intrigued me, but I wondered if I was missing something.

So I asked a large-language model to consider the poem and interpret it as song lyrics.

The first response didn't really grab me, but it had the line "my ears yawn open" which I liked.

Then I pondered the idea of going out on a limb and the sense of the sky being a view of the unknown.

This morning I finished writing and recorded lyrics using a simple melody and tried a few musical ideas before settling on a dancefloor banger. 

Puts on hearing glasses

 

Disquiet Junto 0763 3 Pedestals

The Junto instruction this week is to "Make music with three sounds: one you love, one you dislike, and one you consider to be neutral."

I started playing with this typewriter instructional movie for a different song.

The first sound with the periscope comes from the beginning and is one I love, while the stopwatch is neutral and the soundtrack I dislike.

You can hear that in how much I manipulate them, as the soundtrack is divided into two to be repitched and gated while the other parts largely stay recognisable. 

Don't shred on me