Central 10ent (disquiet0299) by Nate Trier

"Make a piece of dance music at 10bpm."

This was impossible to resist. I tried a couple of different strategies, but my favorite tended to be making a cool track at a "normal" tempo for dance music and then slowing it down considerably. I like the idea that a short melody will feel like a long, disconnected figure. It's like how an ent might perceive time vs. a human.

A relatively short chunk of fast dance music (about a minute?) gave me a long-enough slow-dance track. The vibe I wanted after that was a proto-dubstep vibe, with lots of echoes and delays shimmering around space. The vibe ended up similar to ambient music, which is ok with me.

Writing a fast track and then working with it at a very slow tempo feels very John Cage to me, in a "suppressing the composer's will" kind of way. I am looking forward to hearing what others did.

(Oh, and also we were apparently supposed to write something in 3/4. I did not do that.)

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More on this 299th weekly Disquiet Junto project — 10bpm Waltz: Make super slow music in 3/4 time — at:

https://disquiet.com/0299/

Thanks to all the folks in the Junto Slack for proposing and helping to shape this prompt.

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