The chord was converted directly to a wav file, stretched and edited into a three-minute loopable drone.
The chord was treated (gently) in ambient v.3 and the result was sprinkled over the drone in various stages of reverb and enhancement.
The title is 2 anagrams of ‘Cage drone’. Not sure why…
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The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage.
Step 1: Consider this chord:
E5
A#4
E4
D#4
Db3
C3
Step 2: You might read up a bit about the source of the chord, the piece “Organ²/ASLSP” by John Cage. Cage desired the piece to be played “As Slow As Possible.” Currently it is being performed in Halberstadt, Germany, on a special organ that will play it for a total of 639 years. It’s been going for 21 years so far, and is at this moment playing the above chord. Read up here:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-04/john-cage-organ-slow-as-possible-halberstadt-germany
Step 3: Produce a loopable drone (duration between one and three minutes) of your own based on that chord.
More on this 549th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sidelines (The Assignment: Get intentional with stereo) — at: https://disquiet.com/0549/
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