Humanist Paddling
By miraclemiles on July 17, 2022 8:44 pm
This week I took a few notes on ideas I may want to explore when creating a song. A had a time box of 3 or so hours to create something. Sat down to create and this came out. Did not really follow the ideas. More fun to see what comes out than have rules, but ideas and prompts can be helpful. I've been padding around in kayaks on rivers and lakes this summer, with more to come. Also was recently reading about humanism, so that's the title. I feel like I could expound on that more, but nice to leave something to the collective imagination.
So with paddling on the mind, I was excited to find these field recording from Sugai Ken, which included one of a river, which I used here. Great interview with him on his process and sample downloads here: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sugai-ken-the-shibui-of-field-recording-and-electronics/
Drums a samples of a Pan drum, played on an old Roland Handsonic. Handpan is from samples as well. I played in some midi notes, used dual arepeggiators and randomness to add more. The beginning atmospheric sound is from recordings of a classical guitar, put together in great Ableton instrument racks by Brian Funk: https://brianfunk.com/blog/2016/10/7/classical-guitar-ableton-live-pack
Maybe I'll upload a pic or video to go along with this soon, but off to go paddle some more now, maybe record some sounds of my own if I can keep the gear dry 
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