Empty Place
By onezero on November 30, 2014 7:33 pm
The latest installment of the abstract-sound (no obvious instrument reference) series I've been working for the last few weeks. I'd been playing with some beats during the week that didn't add up to much until I accidentally increased the tempo as far as it could go--not so musical, but it knocked me into thinking of different time scales. I took it the other direction, down to 20bpm, and then bumped up to 40bpm to give me better beat line resolution in Live. Then it started coming together.
Three tracks of Analog for percussion, one for bass, and two for melodies, with two more tracks of Operator for melodic input and one of bowed Tension (through Corpus) for texture. I liked the nonmusicality of the Corpus-processed tracks so much, I reused that trick on three additional tracks. The Tension track got beam processing, the main ostinato melody got membrane, and two Operator tracks got plate processing.
Three different reverbs, a filter delay, and a return channel of Beat Repeat. (I tried Resonator into that, but it was too tonal.)
Structure was intuitive and organic rather than planned--I wanted to get most of the variations I put together into the track, but the overall feeling was kind of floaty/suspended in a mood of wandering through a cavernous deserted factory or something. (If you're looking for a big melodic John Williams/Danny Elfman payoff, well, you won't find it in this piece. Or any of my work, for that matter.)
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