Wanted to Fly
By miraclemiles on November 8, 2020 11:57 pm
Switching things up again this week! Decided to make a track with only sounds from hardware gear, and wanted to incoporate voice somehow. To make life harder but keep getting better, I decided I'd practice more video and capture the whole process as well. I recorded audio and video in three 1 - 2 hour sessions, Friday and Saturday. Friday was drums and bass. Used the Launchpad pro for the first time sequencing the model:cycles. Then did bass (and some surprise glitchy sounds) from the Circuit Monostation. Saturday was about vocals, so switched out the setup and did Mininova (again controlled by Launchpad - I like using the scale mode to keep me in key), Organelle and Kaoss Pad (which I don't think I ended up using anything from these due to being rushed to finish. Synced up video Saturday night and edited on Sunday. A little rushed in editing on Sunday, and again the video slowed me down a bit. I was documenting most of the process of creation, talking about it on video, which is different, and slows the flow. In the last minutes of editing, I stopped talking about process and just got into the zone and finished up. I'm going to go back and document it after the fact though. Will probably share that longer "process" video int the future. But since since I recorded the jam sessions while created this, and Live is awesome at video, I was able to create video synced to song that kinda feels live. Had one clip that wasn't cooperating with warping, so just turned that into a feature and added a part where time sloooowwws down. Kind of glad that happened actually, the slowing down stuff is fun. Made up the lyrics on the spot. Not sure about what or why, but that's what came to me: "Wanted to fly but got too high ... when it's gone it's gone ... " something like that. Maybe the meaning will come to me.
AND super happy the election is over and happy with the outcome. Let's move forward!
Update ... here's the video. I couldn't resist getting weird. Used Zwobot (max for live modules), and let it pick new filter every measure. Nice and simple.
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