Hidden [disquiet0246] by Formant

This song was created for the Disquiet Junto #246.

More on this 246th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0246/

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This directive reminded me of one of my favorite aural illusions - the hidden melody, where you can only hear a melody when played at certain speeds. I decided to use a simple structure of a repeating piano line, that would double in speed every time it is played. It doubles until it's a trill and then it halves in speed until it returns to the original form. The first piano line is repeated an octave below throughout, and in the second half I added what we just heard but two octaves above as an accent. I also recorded myself humming a drone, from which I clipped some breath sounds and ran those through various reverbs and delays to for the rhythmic underscore.