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Grant
February 27, 2016
Day 185: Saturday 27 Feb 2016
Icarus Revisited:
A Diptych today, of soundscapes. Woo Hoo two for one!
The first track is a combination of two sound files combined in Auria. The first a Sector treatment of an iDensity treatment of a Korg Module electric piano jam, while the second is a TwistedWave treatment of an iMaschine 2 drum beat.
The second track takes a small piece of that twisted drum beat and loops it, again in Auria, and then adds a slow piano. I just used the inbuilt Lyra sampler and layered an acoustic piano with an electric one.
Grant
February 26, 2016
Day 184: Friday 26 Feb 2016
Doing Qi Gong On The Precipice:
https://soundcloud.com/grant-horsnell/doing-qi-gong-on-the-precipice
A Beatscape.
The new Arturia iSpark drum app is the core of this one, with a little help from Auria, AudioShare, TwistedWave, and BeatMaker 2. But 95% iSpark.
Grant
February 25, 2016
Day 183: Thursday 25 Feb 2016
Placed:
An ambienty guitar jam/noodle.
To balance the keyboard pieces of late I thought I’d post this guitar based track. I found two guitar noodles in the record folder of MainStage, I’d recorded them within minutes of each other last July and the forgot about them. I can’t remember what I used to get the delay/filter sound but I suspect I used my Line6 M13 multi effects unit, I seem to remember digging it out and having a play back then somewhere.
Anyway I loaded them into Auria using DropBox and AudioShare, and arranged them together.
Peace and Harmony.
Grant
February 24, 2016
Grant
February 24, 2016
Day 182: Weds 25 Feb 2016
Electric Piano Improv #1:
Solo piano jam.
I know my keyboard skills are rudimentary but I feel like I’m getting somewhere with this approach, so I’m going to pursue this and share some of the results. After all one of the goals of this project is to expand and explore my possibilites.
I woke up this morning, sat down at my work station (dining room table), fired up Korg’s Module, and this popped out.
Grant
February 23, 2016
Day 181: Tuesday 23 Feb 2016
So Low (Setting #3):
A Beatscape with Spoken Word.
What is a Beatscape I hear you ask? If you are new to this blog it is a fair question. A Beatscape is made entirely or mostly from drums or a drum machine, and comes from a Soundscape perspective.
Why Spoken Word Grant? Because I have a dodgy singing voice of course. And because there is a long history of spoken word and music joining together in many formats and over many centuries. I’m just trying to find a way to do it that makes sense for me.
Thanks for asking dear listener.
The beat is from iSpark with a little help from Cube Synth. They were assembled in Auria along with the spoken word piece that I had previously recorded using AudioShare and AltiSpace; but which I today reversed with TwistedWave, added delay with AUFX:Dub, and then reversed back.
Grant
February 22, 2016
Day 180: Monday 22 Feb 2016
Simple Piano String Thing:
The name says it all today 🙂
Played into Auria using my midi keyboard, I began with the piano then added the string part.
Grant
February 21, 2016
Day 179: Sunday 21 Feb 2016
Room For All:
A Soundscape.
Hey hey, it’s been awhile since I made a movie 🙂
Todays track is all about Borderlands Granular. I loaded in three tracks from the last few days: an electric piano (made with Module and Auria), a piano and strings (ThumbJam, Auria), and a beatscape (iSpark, AudioShare). I did four jams and was happy with the fourth so I loaded that into TwistedWave and trimmed out the best part before slowing it.
Next I loaded it into AudioShare and ran it through AUFX:Dub, and then through AltiSpace.
The Video:
I went for a walk in the forest near here this morning, it was magical, I followed some deer tracks in the snow past a frozen brook 🙂
Anyway I took my trusty iPhone and used the built in camera app to take some movies and stills which I assembled using Pinnacle Studio.
Grant
February 20, 2016
Day 178: Saturday 20 Feb 2016
Standing To Attention:
A Beatscape.
I’m still in a drum app frame of mind. Today it’s my first attempt with Arturia’s new iSpark. So far it seems well suited to my Beatscape concept. Here I made a simple beat with three variations in the patterns bank and then jammed those into AudioShare.
Grant
February 19, 2016
Day 177: Friday 19 Feb 2016
Friday/Grumpy:
Beatscape.
A pure Beatscape today, nothing but iMaschine 2, with Auria to arrange it.
I have been seriously grumpy the last few days; lack of sleep I think. Anyway I was not in the mood for pissing about with melodies or ambient niceties. So… drumbeats was the order of the day.
Hitting things! Oh yeah!
I made quite a few, this was the fifth or sixth I think, I had calmed down a little by now 🙂
I made this slow, sparse beat in iMaschine 2, and really liked it but was not sure how to do the arrangement I wanted in the app. So I exported each of the four layers separately, and imported them into an Auria project so that I could arrange it.
I’m definitely in a drum mood, so expect a plethora of Beatscapes over the next few days 🙂