Procession (disquiet0354) by dascott

I wish I had had more time to work on this project - the possibilities were so rich! I rolled "Death" as my ritual (to be honest, I rolled twice because I hadn't a clue about my first choice. Sue me. ;)). As indicated by my title, I thought of this as a solemn procession honoring the dead. The lowest hit-spring sample tolls every six seconds throughout. The hit steel gong, filtered to muffle it, beats every second, subdividing the tolling. Two elements make up the "incorrectly remembered combinations of past musical traditions and styles": A mournful, repeated, drawn out opening to "taps" played on the PVC pipe, and a fragment of the "Dies Irae" chant played on the diddleyBow.
Punctuating all this at intervals is an ultralow drone made by transposing the bassDiddleyBow sample even lower than it started. Lastly, I pulled out small, quiet snippets of breathing from between the PVC pipe samples, and random looped bits of this appear throughout, and have their final, whispered say at the very end.
All processing and mixing was done the RTcmix software tools, using a script written in the MinC score language. My heartfelt thanks to Nathan Moody for providing the great source material!

More on this 354th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Rituals & Canticles / The Assignment: Make music using instruments from a future that doesn’t fully remember our present) at:

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Thanks to Nathan Moody (noisejockey.net) for proposing and providing the sounds and images and ideas for this project.

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