On 01/30/2010 11:46 PM, michael noble wrote:
Hi Patrick,
At first I was a little confused by your files, as your original
email stated something about "complete tracks". To my ears, and I think
this is more what you were suggesting, there is some good raw material
here to be broken down and remixed into musical pieces. The discord
piece especially has some good polyrhythms, for want of a better
description, and has the potential to get a nice gritty groove going on
ala Tortoise's Djed track. As for suggestions as to what to do with the
material to bring out the groove, I think Peter just pretty much
offered up everything I was going to suggest... I'd go so far as to
suggest some saturated distortion on extremely narrow but well chosen
frequency bands to bring out the glitchiness a little more in a
percussive way.
-omjn
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Peter
Geirnaert <peter.geirnaert@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi,
I had some fun with alsamodularsynt [snip] sitting in front of a
powerful
Linux audio workstation for 48 hours straight [snip] :-)
Maybe now you could split the track up in frequency ranges and use
compression on each resulting track, instead of simply using EQ on the
original.
I don't know if there's a compressor with side chain input available,
but that might be useful too, e.g. to make the bass frequency range
'pump' down the other frequency ranges. (IIRC, there was a tutorial
about doing that with LMMS).
If you have the higher frequency range on a separate track, add some
reverb or panning or delay ?
An expander or gate could add rhythm accentuation.
Just my 2p, I didn't find the time to do all this to see if it works ;-)
Thanks for your feedback. I will try out your suggestions and see how
that helps. I hadn't thought of splitting up the frequency ranges
before processing. That is a neat trick for this kind of palate.
I am considering remixing parts of the complete 10 hour session into
more genre friendly, law abiding pieces too. I think I have enough
material for about 20 tracks if I can find the time/motivation.
These "tracks" I am putting up here I feel are good enough to stand
alone. I get sometimes tired of listening to 3-4 minute radio friendly
format and enjoy listening to a long rolling progression on occasion.
You don't find much of this type of format being posted to the list.
BTW, I also enjoy slow food, sleeping all day, reading long technical
books, and the longest I have gone in front of a computer is 72 hours
with no drugs, coffee and just a little sleep. Maybe that gives people
an idea of where I am coming from.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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