I started this one mid-week when I needed to hear a repetitive beat (three drum machines in Live) while I was working, and built the rest from there.  Coincidentally, I had to upload a demo file for my Deep Listening Conference proposal, which involves a Pure Data patch that does dynamic, randomized pitch shifting and other input processing.  I threw those two together, then added some iVCS3 (came out sounding like glacier and hydrophone recordings of seals), Ableton's Operator (acid bass), Electric (Rhodes), and Tension (fake guitar), and Sampler (grand piano which trades off with the guitar). 

I decided to do the tradeoff after uploading the first time, and realized it required an edit--the way the notes fell across the bar lines, there was a distracting cutoff by simply flopping one part over onto another track, so I edited to allow that last bass note of the phrase to decay on its own.

The end result sounds a bit like instrumental late-period Steely Dan playing on a cracking glacier.  Whether that's a good or bad thing, I leave to you to decide.

Tags: ableton live, global warming, hydrophone, ivcs3, lounge, pure data, week 15 2014, View by:onezero