Catching Knives
By miraclemiles on April 1, 2018 9:23 pm
As I was doing the vocal weirdness onto this track, just the usual grunting, percussiveness, moaning and whistling practices, I heard a yell from the other room "You should call your song Catching Knives!" Apparently some scissors had just been thrown, and fortunately caught. Happy that people were safe, I realized how perfect that concept was. I feel like life has been throwing a few knives at me, and so far, I'm catching them with only a few knicks so far.
I was a little worried this week, Saturday came around and I had no idea what the Weekly Beat would be. I dug through the Ideas In Progress folder and found one called Whistling Jam. Created this quick when trying the Whistling pack from AfroDJMac and pATCHES (https://patches.zone/the-whistle-pack-from-patches-and-afrodjmac/). Discovered that it also had some tracks where I was trying out AfroDJMac's Ukelele sample pack (http://www.afrodjmac.com/blog/ukulele) - which is main chords in this song, with the whistling pack sounds making up the rest. What those guys did with whistling samples is pretty impressive, some good Live instruments to play with. A lot of what these folks do they share for free so I want to be sure and spread the word. The tempo change in here is kind of different for me ... kind of an accident, I think the tempo had been raised after recording the first clips, so had some in two tempos, decided to roll with it, two tempos. Vocals are me through the Kaoss pad, then messed in Live, including sending through AfroDJMac's Glitch FX (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEk7XSnbcJI), which are setup to use dummy tracks and follow actions, very fun glitchiness.
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