Bassel's Square Sky - disquiet0271 by Daniel Diaz

Recorded by DD Friday 10th March 2017 in Paris.
Vinyl samples (Beethoven's 9th Symphony) synthesisers, electronica, bowed upright bass.

Disquiet Junto Project 0271: Prison Sky
Mark the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil’s detention.
Create a short piece of music in response to that image, that scenario, that mix of hope amid hopelessness.

I wasn’t familiar with his story so it’s good to be informed.
The bitter-sweet feelings of Bassel contemplating that square blue sky through his jail window is expressed by the contrast between sweet classical music and dissonant electronica and sytnhs. I also performed some noisy bowed upright bass here.
I took Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the proto-joyful classical piece par excellence (here it’s 3rd moment thought, not the happy, almost maniac 4th with it’s Ode To Joy) and inserted that in a Bb dissonant chord that goes from cluster abstraction to Beethovens BbMaj7 and back to the dissonance. I followed Beethoven’s harmonies in the middle section with my synthesisers.
Love
DD

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