Loaded On Bach (disquiet0282) by Daniel Diaz

Every single note here comes from Bach’s Goldberg variations. I took the very first measures of the Aria.(the only part I can actually play properly...) recorded it and extracted the midi out of it.
Then took that midi data , removed the “important” notes (melody) and changed length of the remaining notes by 200%
Pasted that to some ambient/abstract sounding synthesisers (to contrast with the pure piano), and created a soundscape track fully with the “unimportant” notes, transposed an 8ve above and below, and on it’s original “left hand” octave.
Eventually you’ll hear Glenn Gould’s version (1980’s one) that I used “as is” and also after extracted midi and feed an Atmosphere sytnh with those midi notes. The track ends with Mr Gould final Aria ending emerging from chaos.

So
00:00 Aria: dd piano + soundscape (left hand edited background notes)
00:46 variations soundscape (left hand edited background notes): treated/edited/pitch shifted
01:38 enter Mr Gould’s version

Created on Friday 26th May 2017 on a sunny Paris by DD.

Disquiet Junto Project 0282: Berio’s Bach
Make a piece of music based on one composer’s observation regarding another composer.
Step 1: The composer Luciano Berio once said that part of the attraction of some of Bach’s music is in its clear distinction between which notes are “structurally significant” and which are “decorative.” Consider this observation.
Step 2: Compose a short piece of music that opens and closes with there being a clear sense of which parts are “structurally significant” and which are “decorative,” but that in the middle gets ambiguous in this regard.

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