Again (How can this happen?)
By george bowles on January 14, 2024 7:39 am
similar to last week, i recorded a live improv session, cut the end off and made it the beginning, but this time i cut out most of the middle part of the performance.
this time i made the drums more obscured and didn't use the main output of the drum machine, just some of the individual 1/8" outputs of the drum brute. i used three synths, hydrasynth, roland jd-xi, and korg monologue. the latter two had long delay pedals on. i also used feedback loops again.... history repeats itself.
i would say this track kind of sums up my anxieties of the moment... war drums in the distance, history repeating itself with robber barons and incredible inequality, the monotony of daily life and office work, etc. the dichotomies inherent in post postmodern living or whatever era we are in now.
when i was close to being done with this track my weirdo cousin from Alaska sent me an mp3 of him doing impressions of characters from history (20th century) and somehow it fit this all perfectly. i took his recording of doing impressions of walter cronkite, reagan, kennedy, nixon, and more and ran them through some analog emulator vst filters to make them sound like old recordings. i almost scrapped this one several times but i just kept working on it so here it is.
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