careful palindromes (disquiet0344) by JamesHumbers

I wrote a piece called “Palindromes” as part of an electro-acoustic installation on board a submarine at the Australian National Maritime Museum in 2014/15. This one was acoustic in performance, but each cell was recorded separately and then a little bespoke app on a Raspberry Pi in the sub has been remixing them according to various chance principals for 4 years since.

In this case, I grabbed the MIDI from the original score, dropped each cell into Ableton, recorded a performance intuitively, and then spent a day playing around with new softsynths I’d bought from Korg, recording lots of automation over the top… fun.

This is my first track for the Disquiet Junto, after being inspired by Ethan Hein for several years.

More on this 344th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Careful Symmetries: The Assignment: Explore palindromes in musical form) at:

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