Tiger Bunny
By miraclemiles on March 18, 2018 8:42 pm
Another name from my 9 year old. He looks around my music room and combined things he sees while we critique the song. There's a tiger and a bunny in there, so there we have it. When he said it though, it reminded me a bit of the the ebb and flow of this tune. It never gets as ferocious as a tiger, or perhaps as soft as bunny, but its a story about a new hybrid animal. A Tiger Bunny. One who is on some sort of journey. The kind that only Tiger Bunnies can go on and sing about in their language.
On the process and creation: Nice to try and have routine. My brain resists routine, but they are helpful. Like past few weeks, started this on Tuesday night. It's a tradition now. Actually found time to noodle around a couple other nights during the week, but find that being tired from a work day doesn't always lead to much creative output, but there's usually a little nugget in there. For getting started, it's been really helpful to have a default project in Live that loads sounds that I like so I can just start creating and not worry about picking sounds and shifting gears from creating to sound design. Wanted to play around with some of the Korg Monologue samples I used a few weeks back in Return to Start track. Started with those, and they can be heard in the beginning and end of song. I wanted play with some changes in mood and some changes in intensity. I think I achieved it a bit. One thing I had a lot of fun with and has a lot of potential is taking the same drum beat, duplicating one onto a new track with different sounds, then starting one of them a sixteenth note (or some other amount) after the other to achieve more poly rhythmic, stuttery affect. Tried to play with that to get some tension and release. Sliced a sample of me playing live drums up and added that for some more drum fills. Also enjoyed recording outputs of an arpeggiated sound into audio on new track, then converting that audio into drums, and harmonies to use on other instruments, and pitch down for basslines. Kind of recycling one idea vs. needing to come up with more. Once again get to the weekend with a lot of sounds to work with, different directions to go in, and it can be hard to make decisions. Is it a tiger or bunny? Keep as much as I can and keep it all. Played around with vocals processed through the Kaoss pad again, as well as through Izotope Vocalsynth plugin, which is powerful but I haven't gotten comfortable with it yet. Certainly not as fun as playing with the Kaoss pad. Did a lot of slicing vocals and other instruments and samples and tapping out new parts.
Resisted the urge to make it a Cumbia influenced track. Stay focussed.
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Really reminds me of the dreamy tunes on VoicedOut's channel on youtube. Would love to hear more in this style! Really great work 
