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That's pretty cool! Is there an analysis of this song (or album) somewhere?

by cpa 14y ago

JonnieCache 14y ago
There's this blurb he wrote on the soundcloud page: "When I see a photo of a modular synthesizer, I wonder, as I think many others do, what the thing sounds like. What possibilities lurk within this strange hardware? I want to hear something orchestrated and controlled. I want to hear someone commanding the instrument with authority, not merely floating on waves of serendipity. I want to hear something composed for the instrument, leveraging its strengths, not a orchestration of an existing composition. 'A Funneled Stone' is a pure modular synth release, tracked the old-shool, 1970's way: one monophonic line at a time. Every sound you hear was created, patched and recorded for that moment in time. When a new sound is needed, the patch is torn down and a new one is built. Polyphony is achieved by tracking each voice individually. A modular album is, by definition, unapologetically synthetic. I also tried to take a more minimalist approach to orchestration, so the individual sounds can be more fully isolated and appreciated. I spent much of the final month of production taking elements out, and editing for length. Sometimes this results in the remaining elements merely hinting at the underlying harmonic movement. As you can imagine, this process is very time-consuming, but fun. I hope you enjoy the results as much as I enjoyed creating it." For more super-hi-tech-math-music have a listen to this: http://detroitunderground.net/blog/2012/05/03/vaetxh-libet-tones-du17/ http://detroitunderground.net/blog/2012/05/03/vaetxh-libet-t... That page has technical descriptions of what's happening in each track. Risset illusions are just the start of the psychoacoustic trickery which goes on in that record. A word of warning however: unlike the stretta stuff, the Vaetxh tracks are REALLY NOT SOOTHING. If you are soothed by them, seek help.
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That's pretty cool! Is there an analysis of this song (or album) somewhere?

by cpa 14y ago

That's pretty cool! Is there an analysis of this song (or album) somewhere?

There's this blurb he wrote on the soundcloud page: "When I see a photo of a modular synthesizer, I wonder, as I think many others do, what the thing sounds like. What possibilities lurk within this strange hardware? I want to hear something orchestrated and controlled. I want to hear someone commanding the instrument with authority, not merely floating on waves of serendipity. I want to hear something composed for the instrument, leveraging its strengths, not a orchestration of an existing composition. 'A Funneled Stone' is a pure modular synth release, tracked the old-shool, 1970's way: one monophonic line at a time. Every sound you hear was created, patched and recorded for that moment in time. When a new sound is needed, the patch is torn down and a new one is built. Polyphony is achieved by tracking each voice individually. A modular album is, by definition, unapologetically synthetic. I also tried to take a more minimalist approach to orchestration, so the individual sounds can be more fully isolated and appreciated. I spent much of the final month of production taking elements out, and editing for length. Sometimes this results in the remaining elements merely hinting at the underlying harmonic movement. As you can imagine, this process is very time-consuming, but fun. I hope you enjoy the results as much as I enjoyed creating it." For more super-hi-tech-math-music have a listen to this: http://detroitunderground.net/blog/2012/05/03/vaetxh-libet-tones-du17/ http://detroitunderground.net/blog/2012/05/03/vaetxh-libet-t... That page has technical descriptions of what's happening in each track. Risset illusions are just the start of the psychoacoustic trickery which goes on in that record. A word of warning however: unlike the stretta stuff, the Vaetxh tracks are REALLY NOT SOOTHING. If you are soothed by them, seek help.

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