TrancyPants
Added 2017-12-16 21:48:05 +0000 UTCHere's the first production with the modular setup, at an early stage where I had the Mutable Grids drum pattern generator and a BASTL Skis twin VCA to chop a few of these droning oscillators into notes.
The tambourine sound is a 6-squarewave Synthrotek Nandemonimum drone running through one channel of Skis, triggered by Grids. The other swirling droning sound is coming from a BASTL Kastle mini synth with one side of its stereo output droning, and the other side poking through the other Skis channel. I can't hear it on my computer speakers but I'm pretty sure I had committed the Pittsburgh Lifeforms synth voice module to playing the bass drum part since at the time of this recording that's all the VCA (and envelope generators) I had. Three is the minimum; Lifeform + Skis = 3 channels of triggerable audio. The synthesizer stuff was mixed through my homemade matrix mixer and recorded in a single take after it was all set up and running.
Other sounds were dubbed in subsequent passes via the magic of multi-track recording: Organ from a Casio CTK-7200, and the guitar tracks are from an Earnest tenor guitar.
Comments
The way you describe it sounds a lot like people always described jazz to me (minus the re-do, obviously 😅). But then again jazz is essentially impromptu composition on the fly and yours is trying to get the right sound for what you intend to achieve. 🤔 that is interesting.
Simone Spinozzi
2017-12-17 07:09:47 +0000 UTCYes, that's how I multi-track. I usually start with a plan, either a song structure or an instrumental arrangement. I'll have some sort of an idea where I want to go with it, but I don't know what the end result is going to sound like until I actually hear it. Most of these synthesizer experiments were unplanned; I just sat down with the equipment and started messing with it to find out what it would do. Get an interesting sound out of one module, then hook up another and twiddle with it to make it sound good with the first one (or twiddle the first one to make it fit better with the second one). One nice thing about having a rack capable of playing multiple parts simultaneously is you can tweak it all and have it sounding "right" before you record. With other instruments, if in the course of laying down tracks I realize one of the earlier parts doesn't sound right with some new thing I just thought of doing, then I'd have to go back and completely re-do it.
2017-12-17 01:53:14 +0000 UTCI... Never actually commented on your music on account of me barely being able to comment on visual art abd having weird tastes in music but i do have a few questions. - By multi track recording you mean you record a track and then switch instrument to record a second track and so on... Basically making yourself into a one man band? - If the above is true. Do you already have the end result in your head before committing it in the instruments? Yeah. I never wrote music but i can barely follow a single instrument at a time when trying to play. (which is mostly why i gave up playing. Everybody could follow everybody else while i had to focus on a single person to follow or i was lost.)
Simone Spinozzi
2017-12-16 22:18:29 +0000 UTC
