“Our Arranged Marriage is a Secret Society”
https://soundcloud.com/neurogami/our-arranged-marriage-is-a-secret-society-disquiet0317
Background: This is the 3rd of a set of 3 projects where people create tracks for future collaboration. So, pieces made in part 1 were selected by other musicians in part 2, who added an part ; project three takes something made in project 2 and adds a third and final part.
It’s a cool idea.
Random selection was encouraged, but (it seams) weakly followed. Some pieces from the first project were statistically over-represented in the 2nd project. A good number of pieces (a dozen or so) were simply not used in project 2.
I certainly understand people wanting to work with some source material that they can somehow connect with or enjoy, and a few of the submissions in part 1 were such that they left little to no room (to my ears) for any additions. (I tried to do the random thing for 0316 myself, and ended up opting to pick from 3, then 6, randomly selected tracks, and then ended up re-starting with choice #2 when I realized my first selection was already being used by several other participants.)
In the discussion of 0316, @sevenism kindly made a list of still-unused tracks.
Of course, those pieces listed would not represented in the third project either.
There’s a narrowing of the musical gene pool, so to speak.
Dismayed that such effort was not being re-purposed I grabbed those tracks and looked for two that seemed to work well enough together. Neither piece was willfully directed towards the other; this was entirely an arranged marriage of music.
I used @VGmrmojo’s “disquiet0315” and @Autogeneric (AKA cboulter) “January 12th 2018 Disquiet0315”.
(I didn’t bother to see if either of those were used after that list was posted.)
Over these tracks I added voices taken from a CNN AC360 report on a supposed “secret society” deep within the FBI. (Spoiler alert: It’s willful nonsense perpetrated by elected officials and an amoral media operation.)
The track length was set to the shorter of the two source tracks.
(edited to include the correct “@” for Autogeneric)