However, I've also got a very nice bass for a fraction of the retail price.
Kydd upright bass
Last year I resolved not buy new instruments and failed.
This year I've also failed.
However, I've also got a very nice bass for a fraction of the retail price.
However, I've also got a very nice bass for a fraction of the retail price.
Naviarhaiku216 – Looking up
Disquiet Junto 0321 Let’s Active
The Junto this week is more prescriptive than usual, with directions including instrumentation and tempo.
I quickly came up with a chord progression on the ukulele and then improvised an accompaniment on the glockenspiel.
The key is C so I could just think about hitting the white glocks.
Disquiet Junto 0318 Linear Training
The Disquiet Junto this week asks for a composition drawn from a single tone.
At first I was challenged trying to think of a tone, then it took a few attempts to find one I liked.
After a day I settled on a video of my son playing a concrete marimba-like instrument outside the Questacon.
I explored pitching it and shifting the loops to play at various intervals, as well as gating the recording.
Before long I'd developed a simple melody that grew as loops joined it.
Below you can hear where the tone came from.
Naviarhaiku212 – Under a winter moon
I've put the resulting track to video shot of an exhibit that uses dry ice to illustrate the release of gas.
Disquiet Junto 0317 Triadic Awareness
My pass of the parcel that is the Disquiet Junto's project this week, adding bass to Ethan Hein's handling of "Left Chair" by moduS ponY
Disquiet Junto 0316 El Segundo
After Marc’s email arrived, I listened to the tracks and began noodling along on my fretless bass. I’d wanted to use the fretless last week but the three-note chords were painful.
Benn DeMole’s track ‘Brother Lost’ appealed to me for the sparse notes and intense vibrato. Fretless seemed perfect given the tight intervals.
Then I realised it needed the fretless two-string bass that I’d bought last year and mean to use more often but it’s always more work and uncomfortable to play.
Putting that resonant kick-body near the sub was an experiment in generating unruly feedback that was filtered out. I’ve added some distortion so the bass might be heard on smaller speakers.
‘Brothers Lost’ by Benn DeMole and Bassling can be downloaded here
Disquiet Junto 0315 First Chair
The Junto this week asks for the first part of a trio.
I recorded a bass part at 81 BPM.
It starts E D C, then E G D. Then arpeggios through E G D C, I think.
There’s a bit that holds A B7 D, then it goes through the arpeggios again.
You can download this part here
Naviarhaiku209 – I am all ears
As a result I went back to the folder of music from Ceylon that was part of the Disquiet Junto's Three Princes project, which I also used to make music for a toasted sandwich with weed and leftover curry.
The outcome was that I listened to music and looked for a way to contribute, settling on adding drums to Sunil Santha's 'Don Don Don Dontha'.
naviarhaiku208 – Considering the years gone by
When I began contemplating the words, I imagined surveying the landscape of my own haiku. I reviewed those written each day this year and imagined striding through the results like a giant.
"In Giant Steps" is a dash through the prose I've written this year. It's the first spoken word response I've recorded for Naviar in a while.
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