Early Bird

View video for this piece here: https://vimeo.com/1055001377?share=copy#t=0 This improvised composition is an audiovisualization for synthesizer which considers two consciousnesses and imagines awaking between one and another. I can't firmly state which of the two is more asleep and find myself more interested in the peripheries of the two states. I'm familiar with these edges as they often cue me into Dream. I followed these steps for this piece: Step 1: You are going to record a piece of music intended for someone to listen to almost immediately upon waking up. Think about your mornings, and what a more optimal morning might entail. Step 2: Consider a scenario in which someone wakes up and, rather than look at their work or check the news, they take a period of time to just get centered. Think about how long you might want this to take, say three minutes, or five minutes, or twenty minutes. Step 3: Consider the stages of awakening, from quiet to loud, from slow to fast (or a middling pace), from simple to complex. Perhaps the sounds go full circle, returning to where they started. Step 4: Consider what sound at the end — a gong, a bell, a bird call, etc. — might signal that the waking process has concluded. Step 5: Having reflected on the topics brought up in the instructions thus far, record a track that might guide someone slowly into consciousness upon waking each morning. More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/