Detuned Dream
By onezero on December 14, 2014 7:16 pm
With business travel this past week, I didn't think I'd have a lot of time to work on something, so my initial plan was to do a bunch of sine wave drones. They're in there--specifically, a bunch of intervals used in La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano, as an echo of my opportunity to return to the Dream House this week. Then I found myself playing my $25 fretless guitar (see week 43), at first a bit like a sarod, so I threw in some tabla samples in loops that sounded right when they were one beat short. To anchor it, I added some Analog-synthesized kick, snare, and closed high hat. For impact, I added a line of single-hit real trap kit samples, and tracked some bass, then Electric (piano), both of which I had to detune to work with the fretless--kind of the opposite of well-tuned, oddly enough. There's something a little weirdly distorted in there from my converter occasionally getting fuzzy, but I might have mitigated that. Then I went back and retracked the fretless guitar, and here we are.
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