@random-coil has created a well heavy track here:
https://soundcloud.com/random-coil/it-1
This week has left me with a very heavy heart. I'm ashamed of how my country is responding in fear to a humanitarian crisis. This appears to be driven by people who identify as Christian but seemingly pick and choose when to follow the faith's basic teachings. The lack of compassion to those with real need staggers me.
I learned of Ma'loula this week, a town near Damascus in Syria where Aramaic is still spoken. It is said that Aramaic is one of the languages that Jesus may have spoken. I tried to find a creative commons licensed recording of a Syrian reciting the Lord's Prayer but could not locate one. Instead, I found Iraqi children singing it and this recording served as my primary source for this week's composition:
https://vimeo.com/134710145
Using my modular I wave-folded two copies of the singing and further processed it with delay and reverb. The recording was then combined with the original track from @random-coil. I adjusted the levels a bit to mesh them in Reaper.
More on this 203rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Add something to a rhythm track titled ‘It'”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/11/19/disquiet0203-beatbasis/
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Image associated with this project originally accompanied the source audio (“It” by Name Constant) on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/random-coil/it-1