Auto Counterpoint 1 - Mise en Abyme (disquiet 0348) by Daniel Diaz

This is a solo classical guitar performance by DD.

Part of the challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0348: Hot Mise en Abyme
Step 1: There is a term in art, “mise en abyme.” It refers to instances when a work of art includes a copy of itself, maybe more than one copy. Consider how this term might apply to sound. (Do read up on “mise en abyme,” if it’s not familiar.)
Step 2: Record a short piece of music that applies the term “mise en abyme” to sound, based on your thoughts from Step 1.

This one is really interesting as a challenge.
I always loved how they use the “Mise en....” phrases in French. It means something as (literally) “Put in...”, “Place into....” or “implement” something.
There are some variations you hear all the time:
Mise en place (setup)
Mise en ouvre (implementation or excecution of some work)
Mise en page (page layout)
Mise en bouteille (bottling process)
Mise en beauté (beauty enhancing, makeup and hair dress)
And so on.
Some are more metaphorical, some funny, but ...”Mise en abyme”??? awesome.
It means "placed into abyss". Excellent.

The technique of placing an art piece or part of it into itself sends me back of the techniques I used on disquiet 344 with delayed versions of a single performance mirroring and superposing the original music.

This track comes from an unreleased series I created a while ago titled Auto-Counterpoint where a single melody superimposed itself by the use of very long delays w/ infinite decay and Revox tape machines.

So I wrote a melody with many variations, played the whole thing a couple of times feeding 4 or 5 delay or revox lines that recorded to additional tracks.
In the end I’ve got a 10 minute mess of 5 tracks with the same 16 measures repeated over themselves, a pandemonium of repetitions and superimpositions.

Then I made edits, creative use of the delete button and got a reasonable track.

So performed this in 10 minutes, and edit took several days to finish....

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More on this 348th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Hot Mise en Abyme / The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by the art-historical term for fractal/recursion) at:https://disquiet.com/0348/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/