I considered how one will often reach a plateau when walking up mountains, incorporating a slower section in the key change of this song.
Manipulated footage via タンタンポッピング - ミルキーウェイ乗組員 - やってみます。
Showing posts with label IDM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IDM. Show all posts
naviarhaiku602 – scent of plum
Disquiet Junto 0246 Double, Quadruple, Sextuple
The Junto this week asks for a composition that speeds up as described.
I've been playing with the notes DEAF EFF for a while as the literal message amuses me. Realised when I saw this project that it could move from being a 4/4 to a 3/4 bassline, which was a technique I'd employed on a few tracks late last year after learning it from Dave at musictheoryisyourfriend.com
The track sounded okay but was lacking something until I decided to use it as the soundtrack for my latest remarkable sandwich.
Disquiet Junto 0213 Complex Signatures
The Junto this week was another interesting challenge, this time posed by artist Charles Lindsay. Dunno if I can describe it, so have a look at the Disquiet page.
In some ways it's not surprising that I've taken the tracks and remixed them into a dubby feel. It's an approach I've taken with many other samples but here it also reflects the rhythms that the three audio recordings had in common.
The request to explore "notions of perceived techno-organic intelligence" lent itself to an IDM remix and then I started getting all cosmic thinking about cycles falling in and out of phase, as well as the idea of a pulse or heartbeat that's central to all things.
I got a nice dub-sorta track going at 120 BPM and then sped it up to 126 because it swung better there. Before long I was jamming along on my bass guitar and I recorded a part but found it seemed to define the track too much, so I took it out again.
This morning I listened back and thought it was done, then started uploading. Then I listened again and decided to cancel the upload, as I'd had an idea to make the rhythm more complex.
Opening Live again, I exported the track at 94.5 and 189 BPM before editing these with the version at 126. I like the result, especially the way the track seems to slow down then speed up as the kick parts fade in during the last third.
I called the track 'Signature' because, as mentioned, the remix approach is a bit of a stock response from me. Another signature is my use of a three-quarter-length rhythm, like the 3/4 alongside the 4/4. This was why I used tempos at 94.5 and 189 against the main one at 126 BPM.
Then at the end I reversed the opening so it can pull up to where it started to be looped.
Disquiet Junto 0186 My Name
I've always wanted a theme song. One that could play like a soundtrack heralding my arrival in a room or a party. The Disquiet Junto project this week could be that song.
Early on I decided that a 5/4 time signature would suit repeating the five letters of my name. The drum beat came next, inspired by an Amon Tobin track. Then I used the MIDI for the beat to play the synth part. It all came together quickly.
This piece reminds me of an earlier Junto project that spelt my name using Morse code, which ended up on my album WHILE.
WHILE
Here's the first of two recordings I'm publishing on Bandcamp this week. These are 20 of my favourite Junto pieces, from the 36 completed in the first 100 Juntos. It's a mixed bag in terms of genres but it's had a good response from listeners.
Some electronic instrumentals and some rock and some made from things like boiling water, ice in a glass, a ticking wristwatch, an interstellar space recording by the Voyager satellite, handclaps, etc. Only one playground this time :)
Ask Autechre anything
Disquiet Junto 3 Parts
The Disquiet Junto this week called for three parts: a beat from an oscillator, form from a drum machine and a field recording for melody.
After experimenting with the low frequency oscillator in my Sherman Filterbank, I recorded a slow 'blap' sorta sound using one of the four in my Utopia synth going into the aforementioned filterbank, which really warped the waveform.
This was then manipulated with various effects in Ableton Live, including re-pitching, compression, transient designing and gating to get a big kick sound and another on a slower loop.
Drum sounds came from an Alessis HR-16 circuit bent by Diabolical Devices. I recorded a few passes with different bends, before editing takes together.
The field recording is a wetland on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga. You can sort of see it about a third of the way down the left-hand side below, opposite the water works on Marshall Creek that source town water from the Murrumbidgee aquifer. I have a theory that the reason the city has earned a reputation for sportspeople is partly due to this mineral-rich water supply but it does add a murky taste.
After experimenting with the low frequency oscillator in my Sherman Filterbank, I recorded a slow 'blap' sorta sound using one of the four in my Utopia synth going into the aforementioned filterbank, which really warped the waveform.
This was then manipulated with various effects in Ableton Live, including re-pitching, compression, transient designing and gating to get a big kick sound and another on a slower loop.
Drum sounds came from an Alessis HR-16 circuit bent by Diabolical Devices. I recorded a few passes with different bends, before editing takes together.
The field recording is a wetland on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga. You can sort of see it about a third of the way down the left-hand side below, opposite the water works on Marshall Creek that source town water from the Murrumbidgee aquifer. I have a theory that the reason the city has earned a reputation for sportspeople is partly due to this mineral-rich water supply but it does add a murky taste.
Slow boil
Slow boil is now the lead song on SHAKES, since I dropped Postal off the Bandcamp release.
This video was first rendered in June 2005 and I thought it needed something but never got back to it. With the re-release of SHAKES I've literally rescued it from the rubbish bin, having yanked the DVD it was on out of my wheelie bin this morning.
Postal, a banging track
Postal is an early tune, based on looped samples, that got a lot of positive response when it dropped in 2004. It was on my debut album SHAKES but I lopped it off the Bandcamp release because it's not entirely my own work.
Just between you and me, there are some samples in it which come from copyrighted materials.
Conference of the birds mix
Four Tet is a phenomenal musician but his DJing is also sublime. This mix has the power to invoke flashbacks and I strongly encourage you to have a listen and see what imagery it inspires :)
EDM explained
This video once offered a good introduction to the sub-genres of electronic dance music (EDM), which is an area I always struggle to understand.
(Sadly they are no longer allowed to use this choice quote but if you can hear it soon after the one-minute mark here
: )
On one hand I can see why these sub-genres exist because there's so much music out there and it helps people hone in on what they like, but on the other, I still remember going to EDM nights in the early '90s and loving the variety of rhythms.
Makes me wonder if the focus on these sub-genres by musicians, DJs and consumers means that a phenomenal and wide-ranging mix like Coldcut's 70 Minutes Of Madness isn't a product of its time.
Strung out
Aeolus Salute by bassling
Here's a track that will be part of my next album, STRING. I'm planning this to be a collection of manipulated recordings of 'the wires' and tracks influenced by the droning sounds of this unique instrument.
Here's a track that will be part of my next album, STRING. I'm planning this to be a collection of manipulated recordings of 'the wires' and tracks influenced by the droning sounds of this unique instrument.
YOUR
G'day, there's a new bassling album I've put online. To be honest it feels a bit like a draft of a bunch of tunes but there are some good ones.
You might have heard the best ones already in the Antipodean Relay Mix. Then again, it's got a bunch of other stuff I haven't polished to the point of frustration.
And, typing of frustration, here's a video mix I started but found to be a bit of a dead end/
You might have heard the best ones already in the Antipodean Relay Mix. Then again, it's got a bunch of other stuff I haven't polished to the point of frustration.
And, typing of frustration, here's a video mix I started but found to be a bit of a dead end/
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