Sand Wave
By miraclemiles on January 21, 2018 9:07 pm
This is an arrangement of a live session with fellow WB-er @license doing the main "theme" synth on the Nord Drum 2, and friend Aaron Faulks on electric guitar. I did the drums and some textural samples on the Push, ran through Kaoss Pad and some did some vocoded vox, that only show up here as some textures mixed into drums. I also recorded the session and ran us all into separate computer also running Ableton because when recording into the same session I'm also creating sounds from, I have accidently messed up recordings in the past.
This week I cut the session down and arranged this, but kept editing minimal, mainly to cut time down, and some level mixing. Wanted to keep that feeling that we did this live, and we are exploring and playing around, so I kept the various drum parts I tried out, some of the Kaoss pad delay bursts and so forth. Hope it doesn't sound to random and chaotic! I also sliced two of my drum parts into Simplr on the Push and tapped out the middle section. I wanted to impose limitation of only using sounds from the session ... then I broke my rule and added a snare sample in the beginning section for some more pop. I guess part of the fun of making rules is then breaking them. 
Put this through Landr as some other WBer's are also doing, and liked results, thickened it up and separated some frequencies.
This title is because I heard a cool poem comparing sand to the ocean this week (can't remember by who), and because I remembered license had covered a Dune 2 video game song right around the time we did this jam, and wanted to make sure this wasn't that. It's not, he made this riff up off the top of his head, and did a damn fine job! Also, I can imagine flying over some sand dunes while this is playing, so that sounds like fun.
Working on this reminded me that getting together with friends to jam and experiment is one of the main reasons I like music. I tend to hole up alone and create, which is fine, but I think it's engrained in our DNA that music is also a social art as well. I can't wait to create and post more of these live jams in future weeks, and I hope you all enjoy! Thanks for listening, can't wait to hear more of this weeks great tunes!
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