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Grant
January 6, 2016
Day 133: Weds 6 Jan 2016
Slight Hesitation, World Spins Regardless:
A Soundscape/Beatscape today.
Drums courtesy of Patterning, ElasticDrums, and DrumPerfect.
Fieldscaper provided the bass scape.
The rhythmic vocal fragment was made with AudioShare, AltiSpace, Sector,and TwistedWave.
All brought together in Auria.
Grant
January 5, 2016
Day 132: Tuesday 5 Jan 2016
Shine On Moon:
A Beatscape with Spoken Word.
Patterning provided the drums today, one slow and simple pattern recorded 4 times with different sounds and different soloing ad muting of parts. Then I added an ambient Addictive Synth jam and a Borderlands Granular bass part. Finally I added the words (recorded with AudioShare, AltiSpace, and TwistedWave). All this took place in Auria.
Grant
January 4, 2016
Day 131: Monday 4 Jan 2016
As Snow Falls:
An Ambient Soundscape today.
This was made by recording a collection of my Poseidon abstract and bass drone patches into Auria.
I simply jammed them one at a time into different tracks before selecting and arranging.
Simple but fun and effective.
Grant
January 3, 2016
Day 130: Sunday 3 Jan 2016
The Sentence:
A Beatscape with Spoken Word.
Today began with an arpeggio in Nave recorded into Auria and then accompanied with an ElasicDrums beat and a DM1 beat. I mixed it down and then slowed it in TwistedWave. Then effected it once with AUFX:Dub, AUFX:Space, and Emo Chorus. And again with Dedalus. Then I reversed it.
Now I had 4 variations of the slowed file. I loaded them all into a new Auria Project, added one of my abstract patches from Poseidon, then added the vocals which I recorded using AudioShare, AltiSpace, and TwistedWave.
Some cutting and collaging and hey presto.
Grant
January 2, 2016
Day 129: Saturday 2 Jan 2016
The Tale Of Musca Domestica:
Another Beatscape with Spoken Word.
I started this, as I often do, by taking a piece from yesterday’s track and building on that. I began with the beat from yesterday which was made with iMaschine, FLUX:FX, and TwistedWave. I ran it through Sector, twice with different settings, and then ran each through TwistedWave and slowed them by 50% and lowered them by 400 cents. Then I ran both of those through TwistedWave again, with the same settings.
Next I added both versions into Auria. It sounded like Mt Etna exploding 🙂
Cool, but what to add? What direction to go?
Now the project took an unexpected turn, as sometimes happens.
I decided to try adding a slow pulsing arpeggio, so I loaded up Addictive Synth; the result was so good it required reshaping the whole track. So I carved into the first files, opening room for the arpeggio to breathe.
Then I added a simple bass drum track, for emphasis, using Dm1. Then repeated it with a different sound.
And finally I added the lyrics. I read the poem into AudioShare with AltiSpace, added them to Auria and arranged them about the track.
Grant
January 1, 2016
Day 128: Friday 1 Jan 2016
The Worm Turns:
I’m ringing in the New Year with an Ambient Soundscape; there are abstract and beat elements, but that is I think the overall flavour.
iFretless Bass recorded into AudioShare with AUFX:Dub and AUFX:Space provided the starting point for todays journey. I ran it through TwistedWave several times for slowing and lowering and trimming and reversing. Then I added it to Auria along with a beat I made using iMaschine and FLUX:FX.
iPulseret and iDensity also added some textures.
Happy New Year Trackers!
Grant
December 31, 2015
Day 127: Thursday 31 Dec 2015
Empty Without You:
A Soundscape, a dronescape.
A drone from Sunrizer, pitched up a fifth in TwistedWave, both added to Auria, two tracks from iDensity added, three tracks from Addictive Synth added.
Happy New Year peeps!
Grant
December 30, 2015
Day 126: Weds 30 Dec 2015
Oaf:
A Vocalscape.
I took the vocal from yesterday’s post and slowed it/lowered it/reversed it in TwistedWave, then looped it in AudioShare with AUFX:Dub, AUFX:Space, and Dedalus. Then I ran it through Sector. Then I loaded both files into Borderlands Granular and did a jam.
The end result is simply loading all three of these into Auria and arranging slightly.
Grant
December 30, 2015
Day 125: Tuesday 29 Dec 2015
Four Out Of Five Sad Pandas…:
A Beatscape with some minimal Spoken Word.
I began this with a slow beat in ElasticDrums which I then slowed by half and lowered in TwistedWave. Both versions were then added to Auria though only a little of the first was used.
Next I made a bass/drum sort of arpeggio in Addictive Synth which I slowed and added, again only using it occasionally.
Finally I spoke a line into AudioShare with AUFX:Space and added it to the mix. A little cutting and dicing and there you have it.
Grant
December 28, 2015