30 Jan
2010
30 Jan
'10
8:46 a.m.
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(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Shirkey <
pshirkey(a)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 ;-)