Saint Yared (Ge’ez: ቅዱስ ያሬድ; 25 April 505 – 20 May 571):
He then returned to Axum at the age of nine, becoming the chief priest in Holy Ark of Sion. Soon after, St. Yared composed “Ariam”. While at Axum, St. Yared created musical notations and alphabets. —Wikipedia
I like the video a lot. I like the distressed sound of the audio processing. I like the tempo and concept. The one thing I don’t like is the fidelity. You can’t hear the whole blanket of overtones or the viscosity of the bass.
Reactions from other people have been uniformly nothing – no responses at all. When that happens it means the piece doesn’t move the listener. It doesn’t bring joy and happiness.
At first, I thought the problem with this recording was the super-low sound quality and the lack of a melody, groove, parts, or arrangement. After thinking for a while I realized those problems are real but not the main thing, which is too little love. I didn’t have the patience to bring these pieces to life. I can figure out their shortcomings. I shouldn’t leave that to other listeners. My ears are attached as well as anybody’s.
This piece is fine as a work in progress. It is a snapshot on the way to something. So I changed its name from “Presence” — which it isn’t ready for — to “Work in Progress.”
Listening again from that perspective, what needs to happen is for the piece to go somewhere in the 5th bar. Maybe there should be a layer.
Numerology (known prior to the 20th century as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coincidingevents. It is also the study of the numerical value, via an alphanumeric system, of the letters in words and names. When numerology is applied to a person’s name, it is a form of onomancy.
You are welcome to download this and use it to make your own new sounds. Jam on top. Cut it up into samples. Put a donk on it. Looooooop as you please. Yes-And.
On the 112th take, I completed the playing for this recording. I went through a lot from the time I first encountered this song to the time it was what I wanted it to be. I played it so many times that I wondered if there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was stimming rather than creating. I would struggle to pull off some hopelessly minute detail, then invent a new nanoscale problem to struggle against. In my mind, there was always some fresh idea or goal, but my family must have felt the slow pace of change defeated any sense of progression.
Talking to Norman was the turning point in going from notes to living music. Needing to connect with him in a way that wasn’t trivial was the key to finishing.
Pareidolia (/ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər-/;[1] also US: /ˌpɛəraɪ-/)[2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, seeing faces in inanimate objects, or lunar pareidolia like the Man in the Moon or the Moon rabbit. The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music in random noise, such as that produced by air conditioners or fans.[3][4]
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The Ramones wore distressed pants back in the 70s.Nowadays the Gap sells pre-distressed pants.Naturally distressed woodAn unnaturally distressed guitar
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Distressing
Disdressing
Dressing
I’m thinking about the methodology of music-making on this blog. The way of sending acoustic melodic playing through the blender. Does it add authenticity or take it away? What are my motivations? To be more authentic than I really am?
Emotionally it adds distance. The mix is reticent. I’m holding back. Moving further away from the camera. Not too friendly, not too eager, but still hoping for attention.
Sonically it adds complexity. It makes more out of the limited supply of sounds in the source recordings.
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I distress my sounds a lot. I do it when I don’t trust them.
We were both 29 when the brain cancer she had beaten at 18 came back. Surviving her teen years was hard won. It left marks. She was reserved.
She didn’t love me as I loved her. It was understood. I didn’t expect her to. She didn’t understand why I was like that. After we broke up she found a boyfriend she was more into, but he wasn’t that much into her. We lost touch for a year or two. I heard from a friend that she was sick. Then I got an invitation to her wake.
The samples on this came from contributors to Freesound. They are the same as for Comrade Pas Belle-Mere. See https://playingintongues.com/colophon/#comrade. I did a bad job of linking back to each source page. Instead, I just took a screen shot. Eventually I intend to fix that.
