The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.
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I interpreted this week's prompt as suggestive of creating a piece where the composer isn't looking at the notes while the piece is being composed. I decided to remove control of the note selection from myself and instead turned to Ableton's generative music tools. So with this piece, I've set the parameters and allowed Ableton to grow these little musical seeds for me.
Ableton settings [from left to right]:
Drama Random tool > Film Noir Chord tool > Arpeggiator > Ukrainian Dorian Scale > Velocity [clip] > Velocity [gate] > Bell Electronic Piano instrument.
credits
from Disquiet 2021,
track released February 19, 2021
A collection of tracks from the singer and multi-disciplinary artist's 111 collaboration series, featuring KMRU, Laraaji, and others. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 25, 2024