City Life Raft Boogie
By miraclemiles on January 30, 2022 11:58 pm
Week 4! I'm once again in the pattern of thinking about making music all week, but not actually doing it until the weekend. Jobs are annoying. So once again I dug into the archive of half started ideas to get a head start. I had a session with some tongue drum, live drum and mallet sounds recordings. I had recorded midi from the e-drums to record the mallet sounds. So almost all sounds in this tune were recorded by playing the e-drums live and recording the midi, then editing. Treated the tongue drum with Live's spectral devices to turn into a pad like atmosphere, some city backgrounds hum. Then I started using Ableton's chance feature to randomize everything. I almost kept the totally random version, but brought in a more steady beat to keep things grooving. This morning I dropped in samples I had downloaded from the Citizen DJ project, which is a lot of fun. Did some random slices on those in the middle. There's talk of boogie, life rafts, and cities in those old documented recordings, and I like the idea of bouncing on a liferaft down a city streets on a hot day, then of course boogieing. Totally normal day in the city.
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