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Broken Hours
Music by Broken Hours, realized at Drummysgroin, January 10-11, 2020, this is my thirty-third piece submitted under the kind auspices of Disquiet Junto, a special and important project to which I am grateful to contribute.
The project instructions were to create a piece of choral music from the provided samples. Before proceeding, I chose to look up the definition of "choral music." I also searched the term in my preferred music streaming service to obtain some examples. Satisfied that I had some leeway, I audited all of the samples consecutively, and pushed them around in Reaper. I soon realized that this would be fun, and that it could go anywhere.
I plucked a few samples from here and there, added some midi instruments, and the piece developed somewhat quickly(relative to my usual pace). The bedding is a band-pass equalized ambient recording in Drummysgroin, captured while working on the project. Interior. It's good to get this out there.
My intentions shifted from attempting a piece with complexity, schizo-layered with fragments of things I had been working on already in different keys and time signatures. I had also decided I wanted to make the next mournful thing, reflecting my own feelings lately. This latter inclination carried the day. When I come to a point during the work that I well up and shiver a bit, I know I've done what I'm supposed to do.
Thank you to all of the Junto members who submitted samples; you contributed to the total palette. I used roughly nine of them. I know who some of you are, but I inadvertently overwrote a couple of file names in the process of gluing items to fit the time selection.
More on this 419th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Dischoir / The Assignment: Make music from 100+ vocal samples of held syllables by members of the Disquiet Junto — at:
https://disquiet.com/0419/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0419-dischoir/
Remixed by Splice Finders from "[disquiet0357] The time is out of joint" by https://soundcloud.com/howthenightcame. Remix produced by Broken Hours, realized at Drummysgroin, November 17-18, 2018. Submitted under the kind auspices of Disquiet Junto. This is my thirty-second piece in Disquiet Junto. Disquiet Junto is a special and important project to which I am grateful to be able to contribute.
And how could I resist a Disquiet Junto project called "Broken Clock" anyway? It has been about four years since my last Junto project, and far too long since completing a new piece of music, so this results mostly from a conspiracy of circumstances.
The project image possesses an ominous and harsh quality but I let go of my literal, negative and too-confining impressions to create this piece. The process was relaxed, and the track its rightful heir, although my initial impulse was to overload the composition with the multitudes of striations suggested to me by the project image.
I put the original track into an existing, semi-dormant project in Reaper v5.962 having already some settings and midi files, added the percussion, and found the essence. I am grateful to how the night came for the beautiful melodies.
More on this 359th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Broken Clock / The Assignment: Use an image not as a graphic score, but as a graphic depiction of a remix — at:
https://disquiet.com/0359/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0359-broken-clock/
Vocals from a CDR found on the ground. Music by Broken Hours. Appropriated from Baron Landscape's Broken Hours Podcast, Episode 5 (https://soundcloud.com/baron-landscape/blbh-0005).