Someone suggested that Suss Müsik repost our contributions to the weekly Disquiet Junto projects, because they enjoy reading the explanations of the tracks. While you’re reading the original post, make sure you check out the other contributors’ works as well.
This is a piece written for a special lady who turns five years old this week.
Numerology of names and birth dates is an inexact science. Suss Müsik used different methods to arrive at a base number of seven for this piece, with the Pythagorean values of six, three and four serving as “support” figures.
The piece began with a little seven-note piano phrase in the key of G (seventh letter of the alphabet), which forms the spine of the composition. Another four-note bit was added to the end, then inverted for one bar of fake strings. Another bar of fake strings uses a six-note variation.
Both string segments were then refactored for effects piano in phrases of six and three notes. Some heavily treated fake woodwinds take turns dancing around the original seven-note scale.
Suss Müsik intended to write this in a time signature of seven, but counting out the final rest reveals that it appears to have drifted back to eight. A metaphor, perhaps, for how time catches up to all of us.
The piece is titled 7ulia. The image was created on a drawing scratch card and is used by secret permission on behalf of the artist.