24/07/2010

july 20th, 2010

two tracks for this month, one i did late at night (hence its minimalism) and one blake did as lessons in time.

mars and venus is just a single bass drone which i repeated about 4 times, pitching each slightly differently (+/- about 10% of a tone overall) so they phase in and out, causing lots of random peaks and troughs. if you aren't listening with any bottom end on your playback system, the first half will probably sound like silence. it's actually relatively loud, but needs bass speakers to be present. the rest is one drum loop sped up and chopped up lots, then a little blippy arpeggio. that's about it.




blake - blunt and unreferenced versus new and black: i used an acoustic guitar recording, a couple of voice recordings, some straight percussion samples and delay on probably everything. the song is probably a little shorter than what i want it to be. it was originally a little longer but i didn't like it all, so i deleted some bits.


6 comments:

Eliza said...

I graciously request permission to point out the punctuation error in line 1.

My computer's sound isn't working. Will listen to tracks later.

ajebec said...

bugger. i hate it when people use apostrophes incorrectly. it is now fixed.

ajebec said...

i blame it on the fact that i was writing well after midnight.

Eliza said...

Pah. Isn't that when your brain works best?

Blake said...

blunt and unreferenced versus new and black: i used an acoustic guitar recording, a couple of voice recordings, some straight percussion samples and delay on probably everything. the song is probably a little shorter than what i want it to be. it was originally a little longer but i didn't like it all, so i deleted some bits.

ajebec said...

i've incorporated your words into the post.