disquiet0354, Ambient sevenism
coming of age (process) disquiet0354

it seems strange to me to have a ritual for coming of age. at the moment it's quite literal and legalistic - what you're allowed to do at 16, 18, 21. it seems more like a gradual process: steps forward and back, mistakes, reflection, learning.

after the apocalypse i think there'll be more of a naturalistic sense of this, the necessity of survival, the trauma of where did we go wrong: a rejection of civilzation, but also a desire not to go back to the 'tribal'; a need to progress.

i used nine of the samples in three instances of protoplasm, i also applied ambience 0.1, vinyl warp and ddly. had them all playing at the same time, 2 notes forward 1 back. then a reflection: back down the octaves at the end. bit more reverb and eq'd in audacity.

initially i tried to create my own instrument by feeding the samples into nsynth colab.research.google.com/note...th/nsynth.ipynb but fittingly (for a post-civilization project) that didn't seem to be working

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disquiet Junto Project 0354: Rituals & Canticles
The Assignment: Make music using instruments from a future that doesn’t fully remember our present.

Background: Nathan Moody (noisejockey.net) didn’t create a concept album when he recorded his recent album, The Right Side of Mystery, but he had a framework for deciding how to make his instruments, and even how he composed. He imagined a future American tribe living in the ruins of our current civilization, scrounging for materials to make instruments for their rituals, from everyday events to significant milestones of years and lives. The music itself would be incorrectly remembered combinations of past musical traditions and styles, melded together.

Step 1: Consider that scenario of the future.

Step 2: Check out instruments that Moody made to act out his imagined future:
Step 3: Download the sonic source material that Moody recorded with those instruments, and that he has made available to participants in this Disquiet Junto project:

bit.ly/junto-moody-revised

Step 4: Roll one six-sided die, which will determine which of these tribe events/rituals you’ll compose music for:

1 = Marriage
2 = Death
3 = Lullaby
4 = Solstice or Harvest
5 = Coming of Age
6 = Coronation

Step 5: Re-read the background description up above, and compose a piece of music for the event assigned to you in Step 4 using the sounds from Step 3. Bonus interim round: create your own instrument modeled after Moody’s.

image by nathan moody