Disquiet Junto Project 0480: Ongsay Aftcray
The Assignment: Record a piece of music by employing Pig Latin as a technique.
Step 1: This project is informed by Pig Latin. From the Oxford English Dictionary: “a secret language formed from English by transferring the initial consonant or consonant cluster of each word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable.” By way of example, “Pig Latin” in Pig Latin becomes “Igpay Atinlay.” “Disquiet Junto” in Pig Latin becomes “Isquietday Untojay.”
Step 2: Consider how you might apply the technique of Pig Latin to a preexisting piece of music, perhaps one of your own, or perhaps someone else’s (a remix of something from the public domain, for example). You might cut up a melodic sequence and append the starts of phrases to their ends. This needn’t by any means involve words or voice. Just use Pig Latin as a guide, one that informs how you take something that exists and then rearrange its constituent parts methodically into something else.
Step 3: Record a piece of music employing the approach you develop as a result of Step 2.
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I used 'Breaking Point' from my album 'Uprooted' (2019) and swapped the start with the end.
Musicians: Michel Banabila, Gareth Davis, Peter Hollo & Stijn Hüwels.
Artwork by Gerco de Ruijter. Mastering by Marlon Wolterink.
banabila.bandcamp.com/album/disquiet-junto