Chillout, Electronic APOB (aka Lolo Lolo)
Lolo - A Walk Home In The Rain [disquiet0185-memorymusic]

Disquiet Junto Project 0185: Memory Music

Walking home on a wet and slightly windy night in Melbourne. The light and atmosphere made me feel like I was walking through the opening titles of Noir-ish television drama set in my neighbourhood. I was humming a little tune in my head imagining the theme music. I felt nostalgic for the grown up TV shows I watched as a kid.

I used a very simple repeating chord progression for the main parts. I Recorded the progression as loops in several different ways and then processed them with Glitch2 and uHe Filterscape. Added in other phrases, simple bass line and guitar loop. Created a simple string theme voiced with e-Instruments Session Strings Pro.

Disquiet Junto Project 0185: Memory Music
Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound.

This week’s Junto is project proposed by Robert Thomas, a longtime participant. Having proposed the project, he’ll also listen to and comment on various posted tracks as the project unfolds.

A bit about him: Robert Thomas creates procedural music and sound systems. In 2010 he worked on Inception the App (5 million downloads), while at RjDj. He has worked with Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Junkie XL, Air, Carl Craig, Jimmy Edgar, and Bookashade. His current projects are systems for VR, AR, health, meditation, and AI/robotics.

These are the steps for this week’s project:

Step 1: Remember a key moment in your life. It could be anything at any age.

Step 2: Conjure the sound of that moment in your mind, how you remember it, how you have come to remember it.

Step 3: Recreate that sound and feeling through sound design and music.

Step 4: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud. Please take a moment to describe the memory in the text associated with the track.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the late afternoon, California time, on Thursday, July 16, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, July 20, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work is up to you, but a length between one and two minutes is recommended.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0185-memorymusic” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 185th Disquiet Junto project (“Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound”) at:

disquiet.com/2015/07/16/disqui...185-memorymusic

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto

This project was proposed by Robert Thomas, more from whom at:

dizzybanjo.com

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

disquiet.com/forums

Image associated with this post by Dennis Skley and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/qNu6Jw