This week’s composition moves between dissonance and consonance, assertive 4/4 and more reflective 3/4 against 5/4. A few different moods from the open-tuned Univox.
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Great Blue Hill

For this one, I'd thought to use the $60 Univox in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning, and recorded some quiet, sparse things on Friday evening. By Saturday morning, though, world events had me thinking that quiet and sparse wasn't the way to respond to the moment, so we have a more aggressive intro with a discordant tritone in there. By Sunday, the music seemed to want to do something different, so we have some 3/4 sections (one of which has a line that's in 5/4), and which is more consonant. For this one, the Univox Coily is going straight into the UA Volt. There's convolution reverb send from each channel, and the usual compression/eq on the stereo mix. The title comes from Great Blue Hill outside Boston, which has an elevation of 635 ft.  Does it matter how I respond to world events with these little pieces? No. But I'm a person, and I have responses to the things around me. For more meaningful responses, well, let's look for ways in which we can make things better.