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Tuonela
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- Chill by degrees [disquiet0538]By a strange bit of synchronicity (always sounds better than ‘coincidence’), I was already working on something inspired by this same concept.Very simple, just a short burst of sound culled from a work in progress, subjected to many passes through Audacity’s “Sliding Stretch” and further enhanced by modified sections of drone sourced from the stretched results. Some unexpected rhythmic pulses appear as well, adding to the fun.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill.Step 1: Your goal with this piece is to guide someone from a place of intense stress to something more sedate. Keep that in mind.Step 2: A lot of meditation-oriented music takes the end point as the start. Consider that it can be jarring to listen to calm music when you are anything but calm.Step 3: Compose a piece of music that starts in a state of accelerated tension, allows the listener to align their own tension with that of the music, and then slowly proceeds to calm down, until the music is sustainably peaceful.More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Guided Decompression (The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill) — at: https://disquiet.com/0538/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /6 min
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- Sobruna“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein10 min
- Crow flies forever [naviarhaiku429]Made for Naviar records' 429th Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/03/23/naviarhaiku429-over-the-moon/Headphones and closed eyes recommended...6 min
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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust... - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau
All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.
In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.
I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s.
Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...
I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...