Shutterjam [disquiet0241] by krzyzis

"I know I won't have time to really polish anything here as I'll be away from my workstation until after the deadline, but wanted to get in on this!

The base chord progression here doesn't really change, and the lead changes just a bit. The arp just goes along with the chords in general. But in this project that's all supposed to be unimportant, so it just starts off with this base. Then, in jumps one of my fave FX, the volume gate. We begin cycling the gate effect presets (almost as its own instrument) to create some really interesting sub-themes within the song throughout; the conjunction of the lead coming together with these 'random' gates allows for a whole range of new exciting lead sounds. The lead itself doesn't deviate from it's theme, and most of its notes are actually a measure or over that. Gating creates a lot of interesting combinations, especially when shuttered along the chord progression, which makes it seem quite fresh for most of the song.

Eventually I get bored with the arp and gate it as well, though a bit less. Here I decided to use the equalizer as well and change the sounds at will. I move the peaks around most of the spectrum I can get to.

Not really my type of music but the junto is about experimenting, right?"

More on this 241st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music in which the material processed is secondary to the processing” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0241/

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

https://flic.kr/p/iaNB