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.
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.
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.
The Disquiet Junto project this week is to "Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home."
It reminded me that I'd recorded my washing machine, because I liked the rhythm it was making.
I took the video and stretched, then pitched it down and used Live's MIDI function to create the notes being played by a couple of VST synths.
Then I tried a few instances of Lossy and other effects to make the parts all sound like they fitted together.
This week’s Junto project is a communal remix using either the original or the “denoised” version of this 1922 recording of the classic 'St. Louis Blues.'
The "denoising" was remarkable when I went back to the original!
Marc's instructions state:
Break the track into segments. While you may be inclined toward tiny granular slivers, consider emphasizing bars or phrases. Experiment with segments of equal length and of varying lengths.
I found a number of bars that interested me and, given it was a remix, immediately set about adding percussion to drive my engagement with the piece.
Before long I'd started to apply my usual remix methodology, particularly gating sections and using Live's Beatrepeat function.
Some sections were reversed as well.
Finally, I applied Goodhertz' Lossy effect to add dynamics and give the drums a grittier sound that sat better with the source material.
The result gives me an early Kid Koala vibe and that's a good thing.
I still remember the early days of Youtube, when a simple video could reach thousands of people and it wasn't showing me smacking my partner's arse.
The video-sharing website has tweaked and changed its algorithms any number of times and you can no longer easily find my affectionate slap on her backside.
A couple of simple videos are still among my most-viewed content, despite the efforts that have gone into more thought-provoking material.
I guess it's possible that my mother wrote the URL on strips of paper and handed them out in the bus interchange again.
This week’s project is to interpret the markings on the back of a cello as a graphic score.
After a couple of weeks without a Junto, I jumped on the drumkit and put down a rhythm on Friday afternoon after finishing my uni assignments.
I thought the score looked busy and decided on something upbeat.
Then today I recorded the chords and bass between sessions of Haiku Down Under.
To finish I spent my evening mixing it and am now waiting for the video to render.
I liked the idea loneliness is a feeling that comes and goes, so I added a reversed part along with reverb and delay for more whelm.
The Disquiet Junto project this week asks for "a piece of music that consists of nothing but held tones of varying lengths that start and end suddenly and that overlap as the piece unfolds."
I reached for my bowls, as I knew I couldn't spend too much time working on this piece now that I've returned to full-time study.
This was my third take as the sunlight was starting to fade and I like how the birdsong came through.
