Square Sky [disquiet0271]

Marco Raaphorst
1 min readMar 10, 2017

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More on this 271st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Prison Sky: Mark the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil’s detention” — at:

disquiet.com/0271/

On January 31, 2014, Bassel wrote to his friend Jon Phillips from the Damascus Central Jail in response to Phillips’ suggestion that people might make a record album inspired by his ongoing incarceration. Bassel replied in part:

The Noura mentioned in the letter is Bassel’s wife. See the full letter and information about actions to mark the fifth anniversary at:

http://freebassel.org/campaign/events/freebasselday/2017/03/09/freebassel5years/

Approach and process

I only used my guitar and bass.
Direct recording, later on I applied some guitar and bass amp sims using Reason 9.2
+ Audacity (MP3 convertion) + iTunes (metatagging and artwork).
It uses a few chords on repetition over 6/8.
Melody played on guitar and bass for added depth.

I have another track which I created for Free Bassel:
Raaphorst — Disquiet0108-freebassel

Originally published at Melodiefabriek.

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Marco Raaphorst
Marco Raaphorst

Written by Marco Raaphorst

Podcaster, composer, sound designer. I mostly write about sound, music, podcasting, creativity and related ideas.

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