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Place of Birds

By onezero on November 6, 2016 10:34 pm

This week I wanted to make sure I did something different, forcing myself to work in a way I don't usually work, or at least not relying on some things I've been relying on--in this case, auto-filtered drums, claps/snares on 2 and 4, certain go-to sounds and kits, bass, guitar, wah, filter-delay...  So I first started with a drum rack of a few backwards drum samples, and a lot of tracks of Collision and Tension instruments, along with the Ugandan Behr recorded by Emile Hoogenhout as part of his Ableton Instrument of East African strings.


Sends: convolution reverb, M4L Speed Shifter, M4L Buffer Shuffler, and M4L Space Echo, with varying levels of send automation. Everything except the Behr got M4L Humanizer, and everything got auto-pan as well to make things a bit varied.  The Master also got Full Chain Master.


The title comes from the fact that there's a place in a Ugandan national park, the name of which translates to "Place of No Birds," but it in fact has a lot of birds there, so...Place of Birds.

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Well done: exotic in a non-colonizing approach. Great use of the Behr.

Always good to force new direction and ideas.  Almost reminds me of the Dexter theme with the behr in a weird kind of way.  Cool.

Cool use of the reversed samples to create the rhythm. Nice work.

Like how the reversed drums were used, very relaxing piece of music despite all the different sounds

wow great work under some neat constraints!

Beatiful mood!

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