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Torn Together

By Suhpos on January 21, 2024 10:09 pm


This week i tried playing with dogmas. My rules were the following:
Only acoustic sounds
No effects (except for mixing tools and subtle reverb)
No moving audio clips and no duplication… which i ended up breaking pretty spectacularly…

At some during cleaning in anticipation of guests i had placed the piece of paper on which i had written the dogmas along with my respect for them within my sketchbook. The day before i had found the reverse button in cubasis. Also i had kind of forgot about time and only had 1:30 minutes of material (and i felt like should be longer.) so my laziness got to me and I decided that the last half of the song should be the exact same in reverse (and double the material for almost no effort haha).

The music starts with paper tearing noises, which are then accompanied prepared ukulele (and later guitar), along with bottles. In the center there are some sketchy vocals, which are not perfect but maybe that suits the rest somehow.

I had to record some of the sounds without monitoring the track because the headphones cable got in the way of the phone microphone. Which gave it kind of a random quality haha.

I find the symmetrical structure with the peak in the exact middle quite strange almost like playing a scale but ending on a leading note.
I like the idea but I don’t know that I’m satisfied with the result. Could probably been better with more work, so i will probably revisit this idea in the future.

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January 22, 2024 3:43 pm

nedsferatu

very rich atmosphere here.

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January 22, 2024 9:33 pm

horatiuromantic

Sounds great and atmospheric, and the mirror concept is really cool! Because it's so simple and yet creates a lot of interesting limitations and opportunities to explore! Love what you did with the track! Altho I feel in the series where this track belongs one should start/end with the gong! big_smile

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January 23, 2024 2:10 am

Suhpos

nedsferatu wrote:

very rich atmosphere here.


Thank you!

horatiuromantic wrote:

Sounds great and atmospheric, and the mirror concept is really cool! Because it's so simple and yet creates a lot of interesting limitations and opportunities to explore! Love what you did with the track! Altho I feel in the series where this track belongs one should start/end with the gong! big_smile


Thank you! I love working with limitations, things sort of create themselves. What do you mean with the last part. Like the series in relation to the last track or something more hypothetical?

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January 23, 2024 9:58 am

horatiuromantic

Ahh I phrased it unclearly. I meant to say if you revisit this concept, one of the pieces should start with a gong. I can already imagine how it would sound, and even tho you will anticipate the sound, I think it will have a cool effect in spite of knowing that it's coming. Actually I might steal this idea myself at some point big_smile

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January 23, 2024 2:03 pm

Suhpos

horatiuromantic wrote:

Ahh I phrased it unclearly. I meant to say if you revisit this concept, one of the pieces should start with a gong. I can already imagine how it would sound, and even tho you will anticipate the sound, I think it will have a cool effect in spite of knowing that it's coming. Actually I might steal this idea myself at some point big_smile

That makes more sense. That sounds like a cool idea. Was thinking you meant on this piece and i think it would be cool at the end as it feels a little bit odd the way it just fizzles out, but actually i like the way beginning builds up slowly. I didn’t compose this way intentionally as I had done everything before i had the idea to mirror it, but kind of interesting the compromises you would have to make when working like this. Would love to hear how you tackle this if you do it.

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January 23, 2024 11:05 pm

v0

Love this heart I've been on a another 1960s American experimental composer listening binge this week and this fit right in with all the Cage, Lucier, Wolff, Reich, Feldman, etc. I've been listening to.

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January 25, 2024 5:57 pm

fetalface

Like the concept and love the sounds-- kinda creepy, like termite-sounding? You could do a sequel where you burn the torn dogma. Thanks!

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