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Celery

By Perplex On on September 14, 2014 11:16 am

What's even better than a nice piano sound? The sound of a prepared piano!!! I came across the wonderful work of Hauschka lately and felt the urge of doing something with prepared piano sounds. Unfortunately i have no real piano around to prepare, but i had the chance to do a recording session with an upright piano once ( some samples already used here  ).

I combined a couple of these recordings with this nice free ableton pack ( Link ) and a "normal" vst piano (NI's The Giant). Some live recordings of clapping and knocking were also blended in for some analog percussion. smile

Hope you like it!

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This is incredible. +Fav.
I love prepared piano. I can only assume you're familiar with the huge body of work by John Cage with prepared pianos?

love it!

Oh yeah, this is so good. I really like all the different piano samples and wicked manipulations.

Excellent work.  Very enjoyable production too.  I like the relative sparseness in the first half with minimal beats.

Great sounds and textures..
But why "Celery" ?

I can definitely feel the celery. Different than traditional prepared piano, but really fun & (dare I say it?) groovy. :-)

Aphex Twin does some nice prepared piano stuff. With Welsh titles.

Beautifully twitchy--be prepared! 

Prepared piano, even samples, always gets my vote.

Inspiring me to do something with bowed piano one of these weeks!

Wonderful track. (And also a nice reminder that it's been too long since I've listened to Hauschka.)
Very nice samples of the prepared piano, works really well.

Inspirational!

as Jim i also dare to say groovy, i think thats the cool thing, it is a fine composition with an alphabet of really interesting sounds  that perfectly fits together and it is also groovy!

Digging the prepared piano as well as the various other sounds.  There's some sort of bass tone in there that's making my whole desk rattle every time it comes in, which I actually find very cool, too.

the prepared piano idea sounds awesome and i love how you used it in this track.  Great job!

Tone Matrix wrote:

the prepared piano idea sounds awesome and i love how you used it in this track.  Great job!

Stefano D'Alessio wrote:

as Jim i also dare to say groovy, i think thats the cool thing, it is a fine composition with an alphabet of really interesting sounds  that perfectly fits together and it is also groovy!

encym wrote:

Inspirational!

Plantrain wrote:

Wonderful track. (And also a nice reminder that it's been too long since I've listened to Hauschka.)
Very nice samples of the prepared piano, works really well.

onezero wrote:

Beautifully twitchy--be prepared!

kineticturtle wrote:

Prepared piano, even samples, always gets my vote.

Inspiring me to do something with bowed piano one of these weeks!

rdomain wrote:

Excellent work.  Very enjoyable production too.  I like the relative sparseness in the first half with minimal beats.

cfurrow wrote:

Oh yeah, this is so good. I really like all the different piano samples and wicked manipulations.

george bowles wrote:

love it!

thank you so much mates! very very appreciated!

PhillipeGrishin wrote:

Great sounds and textures..
But why "Celery" ?


Well i can't say, it just came up my mind that it sounds and feels like celery smile

Jim Wood wrote:

I can definitely feel the celery. Different than traditional prepared piano, but really fun & (dare I say it?) groovy. :-)

Aphex Twin does some nice prepared piano stuff. With Welsh titles.

righty right! In fact in celebration of the new afx album i just came back to druqks once again.

CosmicCairns wrote:

Digging the prepared piano as well as the various other sounds.  There's some sort of bass tone in there that's making my whole desk rattle every time it comes in, which I actually find very cool, too.

funny, because i really struggled hard with mixing these sub frequencies without subwoofer. I more or less had to guess what's happening there smile

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