The Imperfect / June.01.2024

TRANSFORMERS

just a bit of Studio Diary entry here and a look into a process i often find myself doing.

we have here an excerpt from some new experiments i’ve been working on in the studio. in hindsight, it may be a bit of a mess. i’ve been exploring some rhythmic things lately and they can get a bit jumbled:

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but this was the result of taking the below sound, pitching it all down 5 half-steps and running it through a fairly harsh setting of the GoodHertz Lossy plug-in.

this is where it came from:

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so, what’s going on here?
i have three loops running asynchronously with sounds from a C-15 synthesizer into the Strymon Volante and an EHX22500. the rhythmic, knocking elements (there are two, one is a bit quieter in the background) are from Kaleidoloops that recorded in-room sounds briefly and played back through their internal speakers.

this is something i do often, usually when i’m stuck or not happy with the direction of a song… instead of scrapping it i’ll take the whole thing and process it like it’s one sound. in this case pitching it all down and running the whole thing through a single plug-in to mash it all into something new, something blurred and different. sometimes this will send me in an exciting direction and be just the twist i need, other times, it doesn’t work out so well. but it is, after all, all in the experimentation.

which one do you like better?

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#SongOfTheDay: Jose Gonzalez “Heartbeats”