I was experimenting – alright, playing around – with a couple of chunks of sound from another track when the disquiet email landed. It felt right, so a few tweaks and this is it.
Meant to represent the journey we take from innocence / light into experience / darkness into enlightenment. From the headlines I’d say we have a long way to go.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0292: Eclipse Music
In coordination with St. Louis Art Hack Day, make some solar-inspired tunes.
Step 1: There’s a solar eclipse coming to the United States on August 21. This is the first full solar eclipse in the U.S. in a long time, since June 8, 1918. The next such eclipse in the U.S. won’t be until August 12, 2045. Ponder the eclipse, and that time frame. Take note that this project is being done in coordination with the upcoming Art Hack Day in St. Louis. If you’re in the area, consider joining in in person. If you’re not (true for the vast majority of Junto participants), your resulting Junto music from this project will be played as part of the St. Louis art showing on August 19. (And certainly you can opt out of that last bit, if you’d like.) Major thanks to Tyler Matthews and Jon Phillips for encouraging this project. Details here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-hack-day-st-louis-eclipse-tickets-35500853007
Step 2: Think about the constituent elements in (the various facets of) an eclipse, what it means in terms of sensory experience — in cultures ancient and contemporary.
Step 3: Record a piece of music that that is inspired by the sense of the eclipse that came out of Steps 1 and 2.
More on this 292nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Eclipse Music: In coordination with St. Louis Art Hack Day, make some solar-inspired tunes — at:
https://disquiet.com/0292/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
