naviarhaiku512 – Endless echo
It surprised me to see it echoed one I wrote recently, as well as his account of cleaning his mother's place as that's the subject of a story that I began writing recently.
So I took the opportunity to record a jam on Moogs.
Disquiet Junto 0616 Definition Jam
The Disquiet Junto project this week asks participants to "render, through sound, the two different definitions" and explore the nuance in language.
I've been playing with a new synthsiser and thought I'd consider the definition of synthesis as "the combination of components or elements to form a connected whole."
So I've layered recordings of different patches on the synthesiser.
naviarhaiku511 – in dark autumn nights
I wanted to use my new keyboard and thought reaching out to the moon would sound like rising delays, while the autumnal setting suggested F minor for fall.
It was light by the time I recorded, then I layered up the two takes that sounded best together.
naviarhaiku510 – in pre-dawn darkness
Thinking back I can see that I read it earlier in the week and then associated the scene it describes with one I wrote in a recent short story, where pre-dawn rain was making percussive sounds on scrap metal.
My haiku might be:
in pre-dawn darkness
metal makes percussive sounds
rainfall in junkyard
Anyway, that's what led me to record this piece.
This week I'm traveling and had a couple of hours with my nephew's drums.
I recorded them first, using the Rode mic that attaches to my Nikon camera.
Then I quickly put together a chord progression that would suit the C key of my tongue drum, then recorded a couple of takes on that instrument.
It would've been good to add a bass but the ukulele and tongue drum were the only instruments at hand.
Disquiet Junto 0614 Alternate Route
The Disquiet Junto this week prompted me to plug in a few previously unrecorded instruments.
This piece was composed in April, when I wrote a bunch of tracks and then had some computer problems.
I recently bought a Yamaha digital piano and used it with an Alesis SR-16 and Bastl Softpop 2.
Disquiet Junto 0612 Drum Vector
The Disquiet Junto assignment this week is to "Walk the listener through variations on the same percussive instrument."
I decided to quickly record on the drumkit, using the camera's built-in mic without rehearsal.
Disquiet Junto 0611 Music That Listens to Itself
The Disquiet Junto assignment this week is to "Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds."
I pondered that directive for while, at first thinking it was about establishing a leitmotif, then reading the detail about effects:
From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result.
This led me to use my gated effects with two chords to draw attention to how the different pedals are triggered by the drumloop to shape the ukulele part.
The effects chain splits an octave below and above, while the original part goes to the Empress Zoia pedal with the "Loopforest" preset.
On the octave below is a Mainframe bitcrusher and Bass Synth, while the octave above goes through a stereo chorus and into the Modrex.
The drumloop is going through a Platform compressor and Generation Loss, before being filtered by a Mini Kaoss Pad.
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