Sentries of the heart
By Tristan Louth-Robins on May 29, 2018 10:04 am
The second instalment of compositions made from vinyl sampling in Ableton. For this track, the main element is a saxophone vamp surrounded by warbling guitar, brushed drums and orchestrations. I duplicated this sample and layered it at different pitches to create a dense harmony. I'm using a manually swept low pass filter to bring this element into gradual relief. In Ableton I created a couple of sets of pitches, so at a couple of points I adjust the pitch and the overall relation of the harmony. Because my timing was a bit off, this created some serendipitous shifts in the rhythmic structure, which I think kind of work. Elsewhere, there's a little loop of some guitar from a new age record, a grainy (mega slowed) extract from a 78 and a snippet of Tarkovsky-ish synthesiser from an early 1980's library music disc.
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