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Closed City

By onezero on July 6, 2014 5:16 am

Not the piece I'd set out to do this week.  Much more static. A walk through an abandoned, self-contained space.

I'd submitted some Moog guitar with filter sweeps to the upcoming Deep Listening Conference's all-night cistern simulation performance.  While I don't know yet whether it was accepted or not, I thought I'd reuse the guitar, so I slowed these tracks down a few octaves and layered them, adding sparse drum machines (K3M, hand claps, broken Rhythm Ace) mangled with Live's Frequency Shifter plugin.  Everything went through a long reverb, and was sloooooooowed down.

The result...might be kind of boring, but I like the stasis of it.

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July 7, 2014 2:50 am

Jim Wood

Sinister cisterns. What's not to like?

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July 7, 2014 6:05 am

johnfn

Like you said, maybe not a lot happens in this piece, but I like it anyways, it has a great sense of space, which is helped by the slowly swelling notes and reverb. Makes me think of a city that is super clean and technical, but abandoned for some reason. The chirps remind me of the metroid prime soundtrack smile 

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July 15, 2014 8:54 pm

onezero

Jim Wood wrote:

Sinister cisterns. What's not to like?

johnfn wrote:

Like you said, maybe not a lot happens in this piece, but I like it anyways, it has a great sense of space, which is helped by the slowly swelling notes and reverb. Makes me think of a city that is super clean and technical, but abandoned for some reason. The chirps remind me of the metroid prime soundtrack smile

Thank you both for listening! Glad you've been enjoying it!  After I submitted the piece, I decided I'd like the half-speed version better, so resubmitted it, and it was played through the cistern simulation from 1:00 AM to 1:20.  As it turns out, I slept through it--the whole thing was surprisingly restful for sleeping on a hard wood floor.

While this isn't the cistern simulation, this is what I submitted, played through a 45-second reverb.  You pretty much need headphones or large speakers to hear anything, though: https://soundcloud.com/maurice-rickard/cisterner

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July 16, 2014 12:48 am

Jim Wood

Well I only have desktop speakers (albeit with a subwoofer), and it sounds great!

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