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New Moon

By Suhpos on April 14, 2024 11:36 pm


This week i thought I was going to be disappointed with whatever i was going to upload, but actually I like this. This is the longest thing I’ve uploaded to weekly beats, yet somehow it’s also one of the tracks that I’ve spent the least time on and the one with the least source material.
This track is based on three short looping recorder lines. I used time stretching without pitch compensation to generate the same lines lower and slower, which I’ve done a few times before at this point. Some interesting things happen when you slow stuff down. I had 4 groups of these; the recordings without pitch shifting, one octave below, one octave and a fifth below and two octaves below. The composition starts and ends with the group one octave and a fifth below which i think creates a little bit of harmonic tension. Then the different tracks are faded in at different points. It’s not perfect, for example the transitions when the clips loop are sometimes pretty apparent, I guess could have done more to try to mask them but this is good enough for me. Also the mix is not super clear. I used equalisers on all groups, distortion on the lowest group and reverb on the entire mix and standard “mastering” processing.

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The slowed down loops sound great. This is a very cool one. I tried a phased loop track this week too but scrapped it. Might have to give it another go after hearing this.

aww yeah, i really love these slowed experiments you do. this one is so cool. it takes on an otherworldly quality and i find it also helps me to slow down. thank you  heart

cool alien sounding track. I like that after a while it goes into treble melodies, transition is pretty seamless. I think the bass lacks a lot of the harmonics that a natural bass instrument might have, so maybe that makes it a bit more otherworldly. but also it misses that content sonically so maybe that makes it slightly more unnerving to hear (depending on your mood).

Hey, thank you all for listening and commenting!


ENC_ wrote:

The slowed down loops sound great. This is a very cool one. I tried a phased loop track this week too but scrapped it. Might have to give it another go after hearing this.

Would love to hear another one of your phasing tracks! Actually there isn’t too much phasing going on in this, the repeat cycle is fairly short, but it might have been a good idea to create more variation this way. Maybe next time…

jwh wrote:

aww yeah, i really love these slowed experiments you do. this one is so cool. it takes on an otherworldly quality and i find it also helps me to slow down. thank you  heart

Thank you for listening!


horatiuromantic wrote:

cool alien sounding track. I like that after a while it goes into treble melodies, transition is pretty seamless. I think the bass lacks a lot of the harmonics that a natural bass instrument might have, so maybe that makes it a bit more otherworldly. but also it misses that content sonically so maybe that makes it slightly more unnerving to hear (depending on your mood).

Hmm i guess harmonics could be added i did add a little bit to the lowest voices. it’s  kind of strange to have dense harmonies with these low notes but i think the lack of harmonics helps get away with it also, I think it would have been a harder listen if the sounds had been the bass notes on a piano for example. I don’t know, it’s interesting to think about…

lovely

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