[LAU] Ascension: Music made in Linux

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 01/30/2010 11:46 PM, michael noble wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> At first I was a little confused by your files, as your original email 
> stated something about "complete tracks". To my ears, and I think this 
> is more what you were suggesting, there is some good raw material here 
> to be broken down and remixed into musical pieces. The discord piece 
> especially has some good polyrhythms, for want of a better 
> description, and has the potential to get a nice gritty groove going 
> on ala Tortoise's Djed track. As for suggestions as to what to do with 
> the material to bring out the groove, I think Peter just pretty much 
> offered up everything I was going to suggest... I'd go so far as to 
> suggest some saturated distortion on extremely narrow but well chosen 
> frequency bands to bring out the glitchiness a little more in a 
> percussive way.
>
> -omjn
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Peter Geirnaert 
> <peter.geirnaert at gmail.com <mailto:peter.geirnaert at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Shirkey
>     <pshirkey at boosthardware.com <mailto:pshirkey at boosthardware.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I had some fun with alsamodularsynt [snip] sitting in front of
>         a powerful
>         Linux audio workstation for 48 hours straight [snip] :-)
>
>
>     Maybe now you could split the track up in frequency ranges and use
>     compression on each resulting track, instead of simply using EQ on
>     the original.
>     I don't know if there's a compressor with side chain input
>     available, but that might be useful too, e.g. to make the bass
>     frequency range 'pump' down the other frequency ranges. (IIRC,
>     there was a tutorial about doing that with LMMS).
>     If you have the higher frequency range on a separate track, add
>     some reverb or panning or delay ?
>     An expander or gate could add rhythm accentuation.
>
>     Just my 2p, I didn't find the time to do all this to see if it
>     works ;-)
>
>


Thanks for your feedback. I will try out your suggestions and see how 
that helps. I hadn't thought of splitting up the frequency ranges before 
processing. That is a neat trick for this kind of palate.

I am considering remixing parts of the complete 10 hour session into 
more genre friendly, law abiding pieces too. I think I have enough 
material for about 20 tracks if I can find the time/motivation.

These "tracks" I am putting up here I feel are good enough to stand 
alone. I get sometimes tired of listening to 3-4 minute radio friendly 
format and enjoy listening to a long rolling progression on occasion. 
You don't find much of this type of format being posted to the list.

BTW, I also enjoy slow food, sleeping all day, reading long technical 
books, and the longest I have gone in front of a computer is 72 hours 
with no drugs, coffee and just a little sleep. Maybe that gives people 
an idea of where I am coming from.






Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd


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