(Dis)Quiet Meditation (Disquiet0323) by ikjoyce

This week's Junto involves making music for meditation. A bell is required to toll a minute into, and a minute before the end of, the music.

Medidation often involves focusing your attention on something that is organically changing - so I wanted my music to give some options for this, such as the repeated piano notes, or the short looping elements that gradually evolve, or the timbral and spacial changes of the reverb cloud. I wanted the piece to gradually 'defocus' and then regain an altered focus towards the end, returning to the piano notes that it started with. Often what is sought in meditation is not 'The Answer', but a different way of questioning ourselves / our situations - so I tried to evoke that concept with a slightly questioning manner in the coda rather than having a more usual stable harmonic resolution. With these ideas in mind, I then improvised the music using several tools to create a series of mental spaces to move through.

More on this 323rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Music for Meditation: Record a piece of music suited to meditation) at:

https://disquiet.com/0323/2

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

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The image associated with this project is by Chris Corrigan and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/4XtNyA

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