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WeeklyBeats.com / Music / horatiuromantic's music / My Ole Fragmented Noggin
a sketchy piece rec on ipad with short frantic samples and some piano trying to make sense of it all.
recorded after cleaning up my house and doing laundry, and clearing my ipad of old recordings.
def not my proudest piece but also it somewhat accurately represents my state of mind, hence the name.
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It's great to hear an experiment. That's what Weekly Beats is here for - trying things out, going down weird alleys, stopping and enjoying the vibe, then going somewhere else. It's like getting lost in the weird megacity of our minds, with all its quirks, light spaces and dark spaces.
I am curious to hear how you approached this one. I can hear some sax like being cuts, some drums being taken to outer space, and other glitch. Free jazz meets electro. And of course lush piano lines.
100% Noggin approved
*nods*
It's great to hear an experiment. That's what Weekly Beats is here for - trying things out, going down weird alleys, stopping and enjoying the vibe, then going somewhere else. It's like getting lost in the weird megacity of our minds, with all its quirks, light spaces and dark spaces.
I am curious to hear how you approached this one. I can hear some sax like being cuts, some drums being taken to outer space, and other glitch. Free jazz meets electro. And of course lush piano lines.
Oh man, well said, as experiments all these are super valuable and lovely to look back on. As usual, listening back later is a much more awesome experience than right after recording.
The approach was that first I picked samples from a sample pack which had some drums, drum loops, sax cuts etc, and also some stuff I recorded from the radio, and put them in Koala Sampler. I picked v short samples and tried to make beats with them but didn't really go anywhere and I was running out of time. Actually I had like 3 sax samples no longer than 2-4 notes each, so I found it hard to do anything with them.
So I decided to not overthink and drop whatever I was doing, and just fool around and play it like a percussion instrument. I routed it through GAUSS which is a tape delay kinda thing with controls to go backwards and slower/faster, and inside Koala you also have some effects you can live-perform, so I used that to do more with the samples.
The piano is retro piano and it has a built-in vinyl noise function, but I actually layered some extra noise as a looping sample.
Also worth a mention are the mental exhaustion and hidden anxiety of missing the deadline that led to the piece being what it is!
