the transmission (the pulsar suite two)
By neon liminal on December 1, 2024 10:03 pm
Dog emergency this week, so finished this one down to the wire and only had time for two takes from the modular setup. This is the second part in the "Pulsar Suite", and I'll let the story tell itself. A little tense, this one.
All my SOMA devices were involved this week - Lyra8, Pulsar-23, LyraFX on the modular and there's even a guest appearance from ETHER. It's been fun doing this hybrid approach - I'll patch the modular and my gear till I have a sense of the 'parts' and how I plan to perform them, record a few live takes, and then bring it into Ableton, chop the shit out of it and usually cut it down from around 12 minutes to a more comfortable 6-7. I think this process bakes-in a more organic, perfomative aspect - and saves me time doing a lot of automation and modulation in the DAW.
It also allows for happy mistakes, and experiments. The interference on this track was a really weird journey to create, and at times it sounded much more aggressive than I wanted - and maybe still will, come next track, we will see.
At the same time, my feel for this suite of tracks is that they'll progress towards more "composed" as I go along. I suppose that's the writer in me wanting something of a satisfying ending.
Stay safe, everyone.
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