dunk tank
By wangus on May 29, 2022 11:59 pm
BACK TO THE M8
i am so fried right now..
a "lighter" week this week by digging up a months-old concept: the bass + main lead groove.
elements of the original concept:
Bass is the macrosynth harmonics (? name?) engine, which modulates into a really cool pulsing tone. lead is a wavsynth pulse with some dirty table modulation. the core of the vibe though is the cracked tonality of it. prominent A-quarter-flat in the melody, and some notable goofy bass-chord clashing.
I developed it from there
* Intro with a deconstructed form of the lead, fluttering around with a triangle-ish tone. I filled in the space with some arpeggiated voices, driving into some "microchromatic" motion inspired by the out-of-tune lead.
* "B" section going full microtonal harmony. The M8 (and any tracker with a finetune command) makes bespoke microtonality so easy to experiment with. My approach to 3-voice microtonal harmony here: have one voice static on the F tonic, have a second "eighth-tone" descending from a major 3rd to a minor 3rd, and dial in a third voice to taste, to get an interesting melodic contour, and to "lock" with the other two notes (minimal "phasing"). I don't know how to describe the harmony here. Fun.
* A "bridge" that worked out way better than expected. I had like 2 bars of a switchup section (like a different key basically), and I didn't feel like I had ideas to develop it further, but I surprised myself with how groovy some impromptu chords and a silly noodly solo landed.
Overall, an off-key and repetitive jam that has no right to slap as hard as it does...
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