a static place - disquiet0250 by oootini

This weeks Junto is relevant to my interests - we are expecting our second child in 8 weeks. White noise is a useful tool to calm newborn infants unaccustomed to the lights and cacophony of the outside world. For our first child, I made a 30 minute white noise track with some waves from a favorite beach mixed in. It was a help when our daughter was inconsolable. We used it on occasion.

Strange to see an infant react to white noise. When the noise is loud enough (about as loud as a hair dryer), it seems to drown all other sensory input, her face goes blank, and it's like she goes back to some pre-cognitive state of being. Somewhere before thought, before time. Maybe that's what we all need sometimes - to go back to the place before.

For this 250th Junto, I tried to do something similar - put the track in a place apart. There is no melody to speak of, and various white noise sources are strewn around the stereo field. Time, as always a factor in these compositions, means this one like all the others is really just a half rendered sketch as the finish line approaches. Recorded in one take on the modular, and twiddled with afterwards on the computer.

As I type, our first daughter is wrestling for control of the keyboard. Time moves in a different gear when you are a parent. Life seems to pass so quickly! It is nice to imagine spaces where time doesn't exist sometimes.