Same As It Ever Was
By rplktr on April 28, 2024 3:40 pm
stone out of focus
I welcome all critical feedback.
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This week the project at the Disquiet Junto was titled "Stone Out of Focus". The prompt was to "record your impression of the sound of stone aging". The title is an obvious nod to Aphex Twin's track known as "Stone In Focus".
I rejected my first intuition, which was to create a static drone. Instead, I made an analog kit on Analog Rytm with sounds that reminded me of some of those grating sounds of stone processing. I recorded a 62 BPM groove with the kit, the tempo being sort of a resting heart rate. I also took into account the Aphex Twin angle, and lifted the chords from “Stone In Focus”, transposed to be in tune with the drum kit. I used two Moog Mother-32s to play the notes so there’s a stereo image there, and via the magic of vocoding melded them with the drum groove.
This was definitely somewhat out of my comfort zone to cull my intuition to add a true lead, a break, and make it more of a pop song. But the themes required some level of staticity.
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62 BPM 4/4, G-major.
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