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Sad European Movie Soundtrack (disquiet0055​-​twoscrews)

from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2013 by Mark Rushton

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This week's project involves a shared set of source material. The source audio is the free solo piano album 'Screws' by Nils Frahm.

Frahm, who's based in Germany, posted the nine-track album of short solo works for free download while he was recuperating from busting one of his thumbs. He subsequently created a site to house all the remixed/reworked versions that admirers sent to him, as well as the videos and other responses that he received.

This remix almost didn't happen. I made a number of attempts, but was unhappy with the results.

Initially, I chopped out some sections of the tracks "Do" and "Re" and put them in the Samplr program on my iPad. Later, I recorded off some of the altered (and not-so-altered) unmixed sounds within Samplr into my Zoom H1, and then transferred those files to my DAW for mixing.

After some false starts, I watched the movie The Descendants, which I hadn't seen before. It was a really sad movie. I like sad movies. I figure it was the saddest movie I've seen since The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, except the Diving Bell movie was much artier.

So I thought I'd try to come up with something based on the idea of a Sad European Movie Soundtrack. I wanted the recording to be real stark. Minimal piano. Like you're watching a lonely old French or Italian black and white movie where the soundtrack was transferred from an old worn out print.

It was fairly straightforward to create once I got the idea down. And I got lucky with a brief dissonant section about 2/3s of the way through.

More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:
disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the Frahm project at:
reworked.nilsfrahm.com

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from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2013, released April 27, 2014

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I make way too much electronic music. Mostly ambient, some beat-driven.

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