APOB - Snoozer [disquiet0247] by APOB

Disquiet Junto Project 0247: Waltz, Maybe
Interpret as a graphic score an illustration drawn upon waking by Lark Pien.

Step 1: Look at this illustration drawn upon waking by Lark Pien. It’s titled “Waltz, Maybe.” When she posted it online, she said, “woke up to music, drew it quickly”:

https://goo.gl/djQ31Y

Step 2: Record a short piece of music interpreting the illustration as a graphic score.

My response to this weeks project is not literal, I didn't use the image as a musical score per se, it suggests to me a choreography, a choreography in need of a sound track. I started simple, and then just ran with it until it felt finished. As a result its a bit longer than specified.

I woke up to music this morning, some vague melodies drifting through my mind. I picked up my phone a checked my emails. As I read the Disquiet project email I still had these little melodies going around. Reading the project description, seeing the image created by Lark Pien, it resonated with my own morning experience. The little tunes in my head seemed to form a soundtrack to the little visual narrative suggested to me by the illustration.

I saw in this image a lonely figure, lost in a reverie, dancing, imagining that some lost or remote loved one was dancing with them. At some point in the narrative, the reverie is broken (the figure with hands over their eyes) and the figure realises they're on their own again, but they dance on anyway. I liked the idea suggested by the title, "waltz, maybe" and while my track isn't a waltz, its slow and drifting.

I used e-Instruments Session Keys Y and Electric R (Kontakt Libraries) for the piano sounds and reverse piano sounds, tape noise, gates and compressors, several processed analog rhythm loops and BFD 3 for hi hats. Speakerphone and Valhalla Shimmer also make an appearance.