Nairobi
By Suhpos on February 25, 2024 4:36 pm
My sister brought me a small hide drum from Kenya. I wanted to make a track with as it has kind of useful resonant sound. The idea was to make kind of a phasing composition inspired by Steve Reich. I started with kind of chord structure using pitch shifting and time stretching. Then i decided to add kind of a beat reinforcing the tempo of the lowest note in the chord structure. At this point the whole minimalist mindset kind of went out the window and started solving problems just by adding more stuff.
I made up a phasing line with the alto recorder. Initially i wanted it to be a bit longer, but my recorder playing/composition skills were my shortcomings here, and i was unable to come up with a line that had this kind of magic perpetuality (like the line from Reich's "Piano Phase".) So i decided to just record kind of a improvisation on top of it (in multiple takess..) to try to tie everything together. I think it kind of worked in the end, but the whole composition maybe feels a little bit clumsy...
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