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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
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 🙂
Grant
February 18, 2016
Day 176: Thursday 18 Feb
DoubleU DoubleU DoubleU Dot Alone:
Again this is one that I have trouble placing in one of my little genre holes.
This began with that slow bass arpeggio in Poseidon, which I put into Auria and then added a simple beat using Patterning. I then did my usual trick of adding some interest to the simple drums by adding two more tracks of it with different sounds and slight variations, and then arranging those.
I then came up with a simple melody using a layer of Poseidon, a Cello from ThumbJam, and an Oboe from ThumbJam; they sounded like an Erdu to me and that affected the melody very strongly.
I then added another two tracks of Poseidon; one of drum hits and one for the intro.
Grant
February 17, 2016
Day 175: Weds 17 Feb 2016
Can’t Stop:
A Spoken Word Soundscape.
Today began with these words; a sort of stream of consciousness ramblings-of-a-madman sort of monologue. I recorded them into AudioShare with AltiSpace and then tried to prepare a soundscape for them. I began with a Grain Science recording that I made a month ago and kept in a folder for just such an occasion, I slowed it and lowered it in TwistedWave. Then combined the two files in Auria. Next I added a Sparkle recording that I made using TC-11 and Figure. The vocals required some cutting up and arranging but that was all 🙂
Grant
February 16, 2016
Day 174: Tuesday 16 Feb 2016
Sunset Stains The Snow:
Sort of a light ambient jazz piano piece. Which is cheeky of me given I can’t really play either piano or jazz 🙂
This is a straight jam on the keyboard using Korg Module‘s ‘Dark Sine EP’ patch. It relates to Day 169 which began with a similar jam (it’s something I have been slowly developing, and use to practise with), a little C minor blues scale thing. But here I’ve developed the left hand part slightly, and this is more angular. Also that track had additions and alterations; this is just the piano straight and simple.