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Grant
December 8, 2015
Day 104: Tuesday 8 Dec 2015
Time Drools Revisited:
A Beatscape with Spoken Word.
The third in an ongoing series, this is directly related to yesterdays post, and is another in my exploration of the spoken word as part of my personal sound scape.
I hope you enjoy this journey.
Grant
December 7, 2015
Day 103: Monday 7 Dec 2015
Time Drools:
A Soundscape with vocal elements.
I began today by playing with Alchemy, I used 3 drum parts and a bass to make a slow dirge-like Ambient sort of a piece by jamming them into AudioShare with AUFX:Dub.
I loaded it into Auria then took a file I made yesterday using Sector, AltiSpace, Echo Pad, and AUFX:Dub, of my reading the ‘Parallel Lines’ lyrics. I cut this up, keeping only the more abstract parts.
Then I added 2 tracks of Addictive Synth.
I am very much enjoying finding settings for these spoken word pieces.
Grant
December 6, 2015
Day 102: Sunday 6 Dec 2015
Parallel Lines:
A Beatscape with Spoken Word.
ElasticDrums, AudioShare, AUFX:Space, AUFX:Dub, FLUX:FX, and TwistedWave were used for one of the drum parts. Figure, Sector, Turnado, AudioShare, Auria, TwistedWave, AUFX:Dub, and AUFX:Space for the other. The vocals were recorded into AudioShare with Altisvace. Then everything was combined in Auria for arranging and mixing.
Grant
December 5, 2015
Day 101: Saturday 5 Dec 2015
Mr Toad:
A Spoken Word Beatscape.
I recorded myself into AudioShare reading an old song lyric as if it was a poem or spoken word piece. I then ran that through Sector twice before moving all three to Auria and cutting them up and collaging them over a Borderlands Granular file that I made from Diode-108, Caramel, AUFX:Space, and TwistedWave.
Grant
December 4, 2015
Day 100: Friday 4 Dec 2015
100 Days:
A pure Beatscape 100% drum machine.
Alchemy and Patterning mixed in Auria pure and simple. One track from Alchemy started me off today, then I switched to Patterning and laid down seven more; some at 80bpm and some at 40.
Woo Hoo! I made to 100 days!
A big thank you to my listeners and followers and subscribers etc for helping me get this far. There isn’t many of you but thanks for sticking with me and dropping in occasionally. Much appreciated.
Grant
December 3, 2015
Day 99: Thursday 3 Dec 2015
The Money Shot:
A Song.
The main element here is an arpeggio from iSem recorded to AudioShare, which I effected with Dedalus and DubFilter before adding both versions to Auria. Then I added the synth crashes using Addictive Synth and gave some lyrics to Trudi using iSpeech TTS, AltiSpace, AUFX:Space, and TwistedWave.
Grant
December 2, 2015
Day 98: Weds 2 Dec 2015
The Triumph Of Enthusiasm Over The Grey Bunny Rabbit Of Despair:
I think I may have made some sort of Electro Pop track…please forgive me (wrings hands and weeps).
My fellow perpetrators in this crime against musically were: ElasticDrums, TwistedWave, AUFX:Dub, AUFX:Space, Figure, FLUX:FX, Addictive Synth, AudioShare, Auria.
May The Gods have mercy on our souls…
Grant
December 1, 2015
Day 97: Tuesday 1 Dec 2015
The Heels Of Time:
A Beatscape with Spoken Word/or a poem/or a lyric/or something.
Whew, that was a hard track to put together! I started as usual around 8.30 this morning and finally finished at 8.30 at night. Of course there was the usual interruptions, driving wife and son to work and school, washing clothes and dishes, cooking etc etc. But it took ages to come together and that’s for sure. I didn’t think I’d pull it off.
I used Poseidon, Fugue Machine, ElasticDrums, and AnalogKit along the way; but they all ended up being ditched before the final product.
What did end up getting used were Auria and AudioShare (of course), TwistedWave, and Sector. Along with Emo Chorus, Vandelay, Altispace, and Dedalus on the vocals.
Time for a lie down.
Grant
November 30, 2015
Day 96: Monday 30 Nov 2015
How Come It’s So Smokey In Here Ma?:
Genre unknown. From now on if it’s got drums and bass and notes and vocals and stuff…I’m just gonna call it a Song.
I started with Arpeggist driving iMini, MitoSynth, iFretless Bass, Animoog, and Animoog For iPhone, through MiMix in AudioBus into AudioShare. That’s a lot of apps to make one little bassline, but there you go. It actually ended up as only a small part of the track.
I made a matching beat in ElasticDrums and recorded it into AudioShare before adding Dedalus and AUFX:Dub. Then I combined all three in Auria and made an arrangement.
Next I turned to Addictive Synth and added: an occasional synth stab, another occasional synth stab (with a different patch of course), two long synth crashes (slightly different and panned hard left and right) which became the intro, an arpeggiated line, and another arrpeggiated line at twice the speed.
Now it’s already a much more complicated track than I usually do; 14 apps and 9 audio tracks. My stuff is usually far simpler, not necessarily in app numbers but certainly in tracks, but some people regularly get much more complicated.
I’m confused about this. Am I too simple? Should I aim to be more complicated? Is my modus operandi of ‘making shit up as I go along’ and ‘do it, move on’ enough? Does it produce decent music?
I don’t know.
It does suit this blog I suppose 🙂
Anyway It was beginning to sound a little song like, so I decided to try some vocals. Gulp.
I wrote some words and sang them into two tracks which I panned and effected etc. I’m not sure I did a good job but what the hell…
Oh and I decided that one of the arpeggiated tracks didn’t fit so I muted that.
Thanks for listening.
Grant
November 29, 2015
Supplementary Post: The Prophet Series
The last three days posts have each centred around one vocal line from the inimitable Trudi McBoody (fictional presenter at Station FCKU), so I thought I’d present them all together in one playlist for easy listening. Plus I’ve added two other tracks that belong in the same series.
I hope you enjoy.