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Fall Back

By kineticturtle on August 22, 2014 7:34 am

We changed our fire alarms recently, which means lots of slightly used 9v batteries, which means it's time to play with fx pedals.

This is my first attempt in years at a "harsh noise" track. It's not particularly harsh I don't think, but it does develop. I used only 5 pedals, plus a teeny bit of post production. A couple batteries never got changed and they were kind of dying. Anyway, punk rock spirit okay?

If you're following my Weekly Retrograde project, you'll know that this is the sister track to Week 19's "Ode to a Space Tree" which is a piece of crap best left forgotten, but here's the link anyway:
http://weeklybeats.com/#/kineticturtle/music/ode-to-a-space-tree

The link between this and that is tenuous at best, but I will say that I intended, as with the first and last parts of Week 19, to work with ambient electronic sound, which used to be something I did often. I had intended to create something rhythmic and meld them (as opposed to keeping them separate, as I did with Week 19), but it developed like this instead. So okay.

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I love it. Kind of like noise-phasing. Steve Reich ('s not horrible stuff, like the microphone piece…) would be proud.

Very nice textures!  I do like the way it develops, and I'd listen to that all day. 

The pulsing static at the beginning has a hypnotic quality.  I also like how it changes as it goes.  The effect around the middle that sounds almost like a theremin was particularly cool.  The ending is also simultaneously intense and somehow trance inducing. 

this is some highly enjoyable noise here.

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