50000 Quaoar
By onezero on May 11, 2014 2:40 pm
During the week I played with some EDM/IDM beats for a repetitive soundtrack to have at work, but by the end of the week, while I was listening to Tristan Louth-Robins's "Goyder's Line And A Shadow Passes," I felt as though I really wanted to hear a slow beat to the drone, and whipped one up. This lead to one of the beats of the piece, and I threw in some variations and a drone in Operator, thinking it'd end up more electronic.
I tracked a few more drones with Moog Guitar through the EHX Big Muff (really, the best sound for that instrument), and at the last minute threw in the Earth-like beat you hear throughout the piece. To keep it from being too samey, I threw that through Beat Repeat starting from the fill-in-spaces preset. That seemed to lend itself to samples of a real kit, more than a drum machine, and against the real kit and the fuzz guitar, the drum machine samples didn't sound right. So I swapped in more of the real kit, except for the MK-1 clave sample. It still needed something, so I added a send channel of all-feedback. Perhaps it all comes together.
That's my process, I guess--aim at electronic dance music and end up at drone metal. All distractions and left turns at Albuquerque.
(Since there's an Earth influence here, I followed suit in naming this after an object orbiting the sun, in this case, Kuiper Belt object 50000 Quaoar.)
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