https://soundcloud.com/cboulter/march-2nd-2018-disquiet0322
Here’s my contribution to the Disquiet Junto Project 0322. The brief was to make music that encourages the mind’s tendency to wander, again based on a research paper that looked at characteristics of types of music that might evoke this.
The constraints this week were to be entirely instrumental, with dark timbres and small intervals, with suggestions of cello, violin, viola, piano, oboe, horn, clarinet.
Not having any of these kicking around, I used a sampled piano in Native Instruments Kontakt, used the cello waveform for two parts from the Intellijel Shapeshifter module, and a Mannequins Mangrove/Three Sisters combination for the horn part, together with some drone work produced by an Error Instruments Black Noise and Mutable Instruments Rings.
Perhaps most challenging personally was the need to get all these parts playing essentially a four part harmony in a minor key. I typically don’t formally ‘compose’ anything, so it was a great exercise to do.
