Mt. Asgard
By onezero on November 23, 2014 5:44 pm
For this week, I wanted sounds that didn't have obvious points of reference, continuing the abstract vibe from last week. This one has a lot of Analog, some Operator, some formant filters, some bit crushing, and three different reverbs--it ended up sounding kind of cold, so the title is from Mt. Asgard in Auyuittuq National Park, in far northern Canada.
Edit: composition process was very non-architectural. In the end, I had four different sets of snippets using these sounds--each set kind of went together. I'd started with some patterns in one sound, then respond in the next instrument, then the next...and after getting voices in all of them, deleting some, edited a bit, then abandoned that approach and started over with another group of patterns. Then I did a session-view pass-through in Live, moving through them roughly sequentially, but also doing some patterns along with other groups--all decisions made in the moment, without a lot of premeditation. (One such decision I'm happy with was with most of the melodic and chordal pieces--these were mostly the first few notes or chords of longer sections. After starting them, it seemed truer to the nature of the piece to have them cut off after four beats or so, rather than playing the full, longer section.)
During editing, I mixed the groups up a bit more, pollinating one group with other patterns as foreshadowing, and some as reprises, while also managing to shave a couple minutes off. And here we are, ending a bright, sunny day with rain, going up to 66F tomorrow, and snow by Wednesday. I'll think of the far North.
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