Disquiet Junto Mediated Solo Duet

This week I returned to the Disquiet Junto, although I haven't finished editing the videos I'm meant to be working on. Anyway, I figured it wouldn't take me too long to follow these instructions:

Here are the steps for this week’s project:

Step 1: Choose a recent piece of music you’ve recorded.

Step 2: Play it very loud in an adjacent room.

Step 3: Close the door to the adjacent room.

Step 4: Accompany the track live, and record your performance. Capture your live playing and the muffled original track.

Step 5: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track. If possible, include a link to the original piece for comparison listening.

Step 6: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

As I've been procrastinating, I mean editing video, I haven't spent time working on new musical material. So for this Junto I listened over my previous Juntos and settled on my wind chime remix for 107, which I called Antipodes.

The track was at a tempo that felt a bit slow for my drumming, so I struggled a bit but recorded a few takes and settled on the final. I get a lot of pleasure from playing drums but my sense of timing isn't great. Given my father struggles to clap in time, I think I might be battling a genetic shortcoming.

The room the drums were recorded in has no acoustic treatment and the drums haven't been tuned since Burning Seed last year.

Audio was recorded using the Rode VideoMic that's on my Nikon SLR camera, which had a 50mm lens with a wide-angle adapter attached. I mastered the audio in Ableton Live, using tape emulation, compression and a few other effects.