A short section of the ceremony, during which the body is cleansed and prepared. The full piece lasts eighteen hours.
The death march was made from a one second cut from the bass diddley bow, copied, pasted, pitch altered, stretched etc into what you hear. The rest was made from two of the spring tracks, including a segment treated in The Mangle, which provides the melodic percussion sequence.
I tried to keep the sound as ‘unprocessed’ as possible, in keeping with the concept.
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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 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:
http://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.
More on this 354th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Rituals & Canticles / The Assignment: Make music using instruments from a future that doesn’t fully remember our present) at:
https://disquiet.com/0354/
Thanks to Nathan Moody (noisejockey.net) for proposing and providing the sounds and images and ideas for this project.
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
