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Salty Poses

By miraclemiles on August 14, 2022 9:12 pm

Some traveling musicians bring guitars, hand drums, and a hand-fashioned beachwood ideophone of some sort down to the Pacific for a quick jam near the waves. There's a camera. They thought it would be more fun to just film waves though. Someone puts down their instrument to practice a pose. Others join in to watch. Then a sunset to cap off the evening.

That's the story - not a true one - I imagined for creating this. Kept things simple this week. I had some footage of trip to the ocean last week. Thought I would listen to it, then play the first things that came to mind. First the djembe. Then the ideophone, a sample based wooden mallet percussion of some sort called Coconut, a free Ableton creation from Brian Funk. Then the guitars: Ableton's Tension synth, then another sample based creation Brian Funk. Played notes on the Push. Some delays, verbs, saturation on things. Kept some voices and ocean sounds. Kept some original video, did some with Zwobot FX.

The Ocean's pace is slow and encourages introspection for me. But in that space, anything could come out. Even oceanic death metal (next week's son??) So depending on collective connection of the (imaginary or not) traveling band of musicians, who knows what will come.

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i really like how you processed that ocean sound, and all the sounds breathe into each other flawlessly, kept my interest peaked the whole time. the video's amazing too: a simple trip to the ocean never looked so much like a journey through space... excellent work! heart

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nothing like a good ole coconut on the beach, am I right???

the ocean sounds like holding a tin can up to your ear and listening smile

nice job!  love the video too

I like the whole tribal feeling the percussion and mallet sound provides throughout.  Like I needed to be doing a dance around a campfire at the beach.  smile

The tribal percussion is catchy and settles into a nice groove.  The ocean footage accompanies it nicely and can get kind of mesmerizing to look at.

I like the way your description paints it as a kind of internal collaboration, and I liked that imagery a lot as I just cruised along on the track.

you catched the feeling of chilling on the beach pretty well.

That percussion festival that builds up and up and feels like it's riding the ocean waves. That string instrument from 0:56 is very interesting - what is that thing? That's the guitar? Exotic sounds and melodies here, really cool hypnotic piece. The accompanying video is nice too! Appropriate for this track!

if you played blues on that guitar while you did your yoga, you could've had some Salty Down Dogs!

Love the sounds and collage of tribal percussion juxtaposed against the plucked instruments.  Has the welcoming feel of a drum circle.

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

i really like how you processed that ocean sound, and all the sounds breathe into each other flawlessly, kept my interest peaked the whole time. the video's amazing too: a simple trip to the ocean never looked so much like a journey through space... excellent work! <3

Thank you so much! Put a little effort into trying to make that ocean seem fuller, more like what we heard, which probably isn't possible. But put on a few tracks, with saturation, eq, verb and the like, since the gopro mics don't do that great of job capturing it. Glad it kept your interest, I wasn't sure if there's enough here or not.


orangedrink wrote:

DOUBLE COMMENT

nothing like a good ole coconut on the beach, am I right???

the ocean sounds like holding a tin can up to your ear and listening smile

nice job!  love the video too


Haha! yes, really nothing like a good ole coconut, mmmm, sounds and tastes good. Win win. The ocean sure does sound like that, especially when recorded on tiny camera mics. Thanks, glad you liked. Your videos have been inspiring this year!

Tone Matrix wrote:

I like the whole tribal feeling the percussion and mallet sound provides throughout.  Like I needed to be doing a dance around a campfire at the beach.  smile

Yes, that's the scenario I was imagining! We had a campfire in real life there, but sadly no instruments and minimal dancing to some nice reggae and other tunes. Thanks for checking it out!

emily wrote:

Yes yes, love flowing with those waves.

CosmicCairns wrote:

The tribal percussion is catchy and settles into a nice groove.  The ocean footage accompanies it nicely and can get kind of mesmerizing to look at.

Thank you, yeah I can stare at the ocean for hours, probably because I don't see it too often. Glad the got in the groove here, thanks!

hent03 wrote:

I like the way your description paints it as a kind of internal collaboration, and I liked that imagery a lot as I just cruised along on the track.

Thanks for cruising along, glad it swept you up! Yeah it was an internal collaboration, an imaginary ocean evening with imaginary band.

Q-Rosh wrote:

you catched the feeling of chilling on the beach pretty well.

Hey thanks, glad I captured that and it came through for you.

Kedbreak136 wrote:

That percussion festival that builds up and up and feels like it's riding the ocean waves. That string instrument from 0:56 is very interesting - what is that thing? That's the guitar? Exotic sounds and melodies here, really cool hypnotic piece. The accompanying video is nice too! Appropriate for this track!

Thank you! Percussion festival, yes, I like that, I was hoping to ride those waves, they have mysterious rhythms in them. I'm working on trying to make some hypnotic tunes, maybe slowly getting it. Yeah that was one of the two guitar sounds I used, either Ableton's Tension, or the sample based one.

license wrote:

if you played blues on that guitar while you did your yoga, you could've had some Salty Down Dogs!

Yes, that's the way. The best dogs!

NWSPR wrote:

Love the sounds and collage of tribal percussion juxtaposed against the plucked instruments.  Has the welcoming feel of a drum circle.

Thanks, glad you liked, that's what I was going for. You're welcome to this beach jam. We started acoustic but brought a solar generator to plug some synths and guitars into for later on.

Really like the groove on this, hard not to move to this (2:18-ish in particular), this jams so damn hard for a meditative / soulful / unusually-colored-type-thing (last one's a compliment, love the textures). heart

ilzxc wrote:

Really like the groove on this, hard not to move to this (2:18-ish in particular), this jams so damn hard for a meditative / soulful / unusually-colored-type-thing (last one's a compliment, love the textures). <3

Thank you smile ! I think I gravitate to the space of chill, but somehow still grooving, not totally putting you to sleep, and to the unusually colored (that's awesome description) too. Those colors that kind of happen subconsciously. Yeah - unusually colored could go either way, glad you meant as compliment though, appreciate that!

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