Monday, November 19, 2007
Cluster Drone
Yesterday, I played around with my old idea of random and control of music with hardware interface.
So I assigned the volume of 8 notes to the 8 knobs of my Trigger Finger, plus other controls for the filter.
This morning, I listent to it on my MP3 player, it was fresh, though theoritically very dissonant.
Guess what are the notes they are ;-)
(it's an idea that comes from some experience of SonicBrat)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
CITY OF GLASS
It's been sometime...
[Please listen with headphones for a better sonic ride :) Thanks!]
An ambient sound art piece made up by sampling kitchen wares, faulty cables,
synths, guitar drones and piano.
CITY OF GLASS
I closed my eyes
And got carried away by darkness
When I opened them again
I was standing in a city made of glass
The only people I saw
Were my own distorted reflections...
[Please listen with headphones for a better sonic ride :) Thanks!]
An ambient sound art piece made up by sampling kitchen wares, faulty cables,
synths, guitar drones and piano.
CITY OF GLASS
I closed my eyes
And got carried away by darkness
When I opened them again
I was standing in a city made of glass
The only people I saw
Were my own distorted reflections...
Labels:
acousmatics,
ambient,
art,
compositions,
guitar drone,
music,
Noise,
piano,
sampling,
Sonicbrat,
sound,
sound art,
synths
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Locking on sinewaves
This morning, took some moments of calm (or almost) in the Montsouris park to experiment a track on my Palm TX with simple sine waves and buffer lock effect.
The result is here, experimented/tweaked live on the Palm plugged into my EHX tube preamp.
The first track is harsher than the second one, more melodic. If you can't stand the listening on the first, please go directly to the second. Don't be afraid of that noise ;-)
Don't try to adjust your speaker system, the glitches are "normal".
Labels:
Bhajis Loops,
buffer lock,
EHX LP2Ube,
eric,
glitch,
Izotope Ozone-3,
Palm TX
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Into space
Few days ago, I bought a T-Rex Bass Juice (bass distortion), and a Morley Little Alligator volume pedal.
The Morley choice was due to its optical technology which prevent from cracks from regular pot volume pedals.
I bought it because my regular volume pedal (George Dennis) was cracking.
For helping me with ambiance during the recording, I used my BOSS DD-20 Giga Delay, but the actual delay that you can hear is the Analog Delay VST plugin from MDSP at mdsp.smartelectronix.com/classic (and also the round-pan).
I recorded four loop drones today, and especially one improvized with 2001 Space Odissey chapter 29 in background, so you can listen to the track almost in sync with chapter 29 of 2001.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
In Conversation With Rain [s o n i c b r a t]
Have you ever watched the rain from the comfort of shelter, and these little tear drops hit helplessly on your window pane... as if they are yearning for you?
Today it rained magnificently. The rain washed our land as it cleansed our tired souls, sending whispers that slipped into our concrete lives impishly. I had a conversation with the rain. But it ended abruptly. A mindless improvisation in response to what the rain told me; with no form nor structure, just reactions. It's an imperfect track that's random... but I guess that's the beauty of it...
A home brewed DIY minimalistic video clip of the track, using my mini casio digital camera, oh well... :) Do listen with headphones, thank you!
THE UNSPOKEN TALE OF RAIN
It tapped on my window
Asking to be let in...
Told me a tale of tomorrow
And slipped away unseen...
Today it rained magnificently. The rain washed our land as it cleansed our tired souls, sending whispers that slipped into our concrete lives impishly. I had a conversation with the rain. But it ended abruptly. A mindless improvisation in response to what the rain told me; with no form nor structure, just reactions. It's an imperfect track that's random... but I guess that's the beauty of it...
A home brewed DIY minimalistic video clip of the track, using my mini casio digital camera, oh well... :) Do listen with headphones, thank you!
THE UNSPOKEN TALE OF RAIN
It tapped on my window
Asking to be let in...
Told me a tale of tomorrow
And slipped away unseen...
Labels:
ambient,
compositions,
experimental,
improvisation,
KORG Triton ST88,
music,
Sonicbrat,
sounds
Monday, August 20, 2007
At least some fun
Using the BOSS RC-2 as background
Yesterday, I was jamming alone, trying to find a way of putting an electric bass on my forthcoming new version of Light Tube ().
I'll probably add this bass melodic line or something similar, but it was actually also fun, I wanted to play the idiot for the video.
The background loop is performed by the BOSS RC-2 (the bass line was by myself).
Yesterday, I was jamming alone, trying to find a way of putting an electric bass on my forthcoming new version of Light Tube ().
I'll probably add this bass melodic line or something similar, but it was actually also fun, I wanted to play the idiot for the video.
The background loop is performed by the BOSS RC-2 (the bass line was by myself).
Monday, August 6, 2007
Some Updates: s o n i c b r a t
Phase II had ended. So while we try to find a new direction for Phase III, we are on a hiatus. Taking a break from it for awhile. As you can see we will be updating on our own little ventures in synths, gears, softwares... music and sounds. So while being away, we will continue to load snippets of stuffs here.
I have been meddling a bit with my Doepfer A100 Modular system. Hooking up my "modularly modded" Roland SH101 to it. I am still quite new to this but I am definitely having fun, the old way :). I have yet to record stuffs down due to work commitments. But here's some pictures for tease. Will upload a demo track once I've done so.
I have been meddling a bit with my Doepfer A100 Modular system. Hooking up my "modularly modded" Roland SH101 to it. I am still quite new to this but I am definitely having fun, the old way :). I have yet to record stuffs down due to work commitments. But here's some pictures for tease. Will upload a demo track once I've done so.
Labels:
Doepfer A100,
Modular Synthesis,
modular system,
Roland SH101,
Sonicbrat,
synthesis,
synths
Friday, August 3, 2007
Between the phases : Eric August 3rd 2007
Aaahhhh, I wish I could sleep a moment under the trees of LDT's land ...
But not for now.
Now is between the phases ... between phase II and phase "what?"
So let's have fun with some new (hardware/software) gear.
I purchased DrumSynth plugin for FL Studio because I discovered that some parameters could be tweaked in real-time ...
But not for now.
Now is between the phases ... between phase II and phase "what?"
So let's have fun with some new (hardware/software) gear.
I purchased DrumSynth plugin for FL Studio because I discovered that some parameters could be tweaked in real-time ...
Labels:
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drumsynth,
eric,
FL Studio,
monome
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
WEEK 4: LDT [Adding Things]
This final track has proven to be a real challenge to complete. On Thursday evening I added some additional elements using my new Line 6 Otto Filter in conjunction with the Boss WP-20G and Cloud 9 Distortion. For echo I used the Digitech Digideay. I drove the WP-20G with my GK2 fitted Traveler Guitar and used both a flat pick and Ebo on the tracks I recorded.
This weekend was the beginning of Buddhist Lent so I traveled to the area around Korat to stay with my Girlfriend Sandy's family. Her parents home is a traditional old style Thai wooden house on stilts and the area around is rural. There is not much in the way of a cellular signal and no internet at all. I brought my Zoom MRS8 and Novation XioSynth along with me as I had hoped that I would find some time to finish off the recording.
After being there for a day what I had recorded previously sounded completely different to me. I was suddenly inspired to record additional tracks with the XioSynth and at around midnight on Sunday night I snuck outside and recorded ten minutes of the strange night noised made by the bugs and other creatures. I took these sounds and made several loops from them at various speeds including the orignal. The slowed loops sound truly spooky.
As for Eric and Darren's samples I believe the only one that will be truly recognizable will be Darren's drum loop. The other samples which I used, including one of Eric's guitar bits, have been put through sound forge in such a way that they fit in with the dreamy jungle journey.
This weekend was the beginning of Buddhist Lent so I traveled to the area around Korat to stay with my Girlfriend Sandy's family. Her parents home is a traditional old style Thai wooden house on stilts and the area around is rural. There is not much in the way of a cellular signal and no internet at all. I brought my Zoom MRS8 and Novation XioSynth along with me as I had hoped that I would find some time to finish off the recording.
After being there for a day what I had recorded previously sounded completely different to me. I was suddenly inspired to record additional tracks with the XioSynth and at around midnight on Sunday night I snuck outside and recorded ten minutes of the strange night noised made by the bugs and other creatures. I took these sounds and made several loops from them at various speeds including the orignal. The slowed loops sound truly spooky.
As for Eric and Darren's samples I believe the only one that will be truly recognizable will be Darren's drum loop. The other samples which I used, including one of Eric's guitar bits, have been put through sound forge in such a way that they fit in with the dreamy jungle journey.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
WEEK 4 : E r i c
Angels of the garden
For this last rendition of the month, I used only the samples provided by Darren and LDT.
At first, I didn't know how to make my way with all these samples (especially mines ;-), but with a nice reverb over the harmonics of bass notes, inspiration comes. I love reverb, you must be knowing this, now.
And I tried not to pitch up/down the samples; they are only sliced, granulized or stretched.
I don't usually make songs in "multi parts" nowadays, I used to do this in my first years of play with FastTrackerII but this commontone song in multi parts is almost novelty.
Though I had some doubts about the idea of this phase II, I think now that it can be a good thing to do this samples exchange but with deeper direction to make a kind of offline jam session between us.
For this last rendition of the month, I used only the samples provided by Darren and LDT.
At first, I didn't know how to make my way with all these samples (especially mines ;-), but with a nice reverb over the harmonics of bass notes, inspiration comes. I love reverb, you must be knowing this, now.
And I tried not to pitch up/down the samples; they are only sliced, granulized or stretched.
I don't usually make songs in "multi parts" nowadays, I used to do this in my first years of play with FastTrackerII but this commontone song in multi parts is almost novelty.
Though I had some doubts about the idea of this phase II, I think now that it can be a good thing to do this samples exchange but with deeper direction to make a kind of offline jam session between us.
Friday, July 27, 2007
WEEK 4: s o n i c b r a t
HIGHWAY FELO-DE-SE
Tempo: 120 Bpm
Key: E
This time round I did not use any gear recordings, just samples provided and some soft-synth sound-scaping using Reaktor 5. I've used a couple of LDT's samples, 2 guitar samples and one vocal sample of Eric's. I've pitched them, stretched them, ring modulated them, reversing them till they are just drones. Only Eric's bass guitar sample was left untouched with a little tidying and eq to clean the sample up plus time corrections; and the rest I've used mine... using the guitar synth sample I've provided in Week4, reversing and pitching it all the way up to underlay as the ethereal drone in the back ground. The bass drone get a stereo spread and the square arp get's ring modulated in one track and gated (plus getting the cracking residues of a crackle removal plug-in) in another to get the glitchy clicks. I've also used samples I've provided in the past weeks for the drums. Final touch ups were done by adding Reaktor 5 synths drones, reversing them and such. The loops were edited, warped and got a make over using Sound Forge, mixed on Acid, and mastered on Sound Forge. And here it is, a whiney IDM piece again.
Tempo: 120 Bpm
Key: E
This time round I did not use any gear recordings, just samples provided and some soft-synth sound-scaping using Reaktor 5. I've used a couple of LDT's samples, 2 guitar samples and one vocal sample of Eric's. I've pitched them, stretched them, ring modulated them, reversing them till they are just drones. Only Eric's bass guitar sample was left untouched with a little tidying and eq to clean the sample up plus time corrections; and the rest I've used mine... using the guitar synth sample I've provided in Week4, reversing and pitching it all the way up to underlay as the ethereal drone in the back ground. The bass drone get a stereo spread and the square arp get's ring modulated in one track and gated (plus getting the cracking residues of a crackle removal plug-in) in another to get the glitchy clicks. I've also used samples I've provided in the past weeks for the drums. Final touch ups were done by adding Reaktor 5 synths drones, reversing them and such. The loops were edited, warped and got a make over using Sound Forge, mixed on Acid, and mastered on Sound Forge. And here it is, a whiney IDM piece again.
Labels:
Acid Pro,
commontones,
Loops,
PHASE II,
Reaktor 5,
samples,
Sonicbrat,
Sound Forge
Sunday, July 22, 2007
WEEK 4: Eric [contributor]
Here is my contribution for the week 4.
Alas, I just saw that the MP3 versions of my samples are pitched up for a unknown reason (I used RazorLame) :-(
Anyway, Darren and LDT have received the WAV vresions that are in the good sample rate.
For this contribution, I recorded my LAG guitar, my CORT 5-string bass (with and without distorsion, with and without EHX Small Clone chorus), and my voice. All of this passing thru a EHX Black Finger compressor and a EHX LP2ube preamp. I used a SHURE SM-58 for the voice. And AmbiLoop for recording on the computer.
(sorry for the pictures, I didn't manage to post them)
Alas, I just saw that the MP3 versions of my samples are pitched up for a unknown reason (I used RazorLame) :-(
Anyway, Darren and LDT have received the WAV vresions that are in the good sample rate.
For this contribution, I recorded my LAG guitar, my CORT 5-string bass (with and without distorsion, with and without EHX Small Clone chorus), and my voice. All of this passing thru a EHX Black Finger compressor and a EHX LP2ube preamp. I used a SHURE SM-58 for the voice. And AmbiLoop for recording on the computer.
(sorry for the pictures, I didn't manage to post them)
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EHX LP2Ube,
EHX Small Clone,
eric,
PHASE II,
ProCo Rat distorsion,
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
WEEK 4: LDT [contributor]
Week 4 Contribution
This week I have decided to provide Eric and Darren samples that were created using three of my Korg units. The first four tones I recorded were from my Korg MicroKorg. I spend much of Friday evening tweaking some sounds specifically for this week. These are the sounds I've decided to share. The others may appear in my final contribution along side Darren and Eirc's samples.
The second group of samples are beats created on my Korg ER1. I varied the BPM halving it from the prescribed 120 BPM to 60 BPM to make it a little more interresting. I also recorded two loops with distortions from inboard effects on my Zoom MRS8 recorder. I didn't use the Sherman.
The last group of sounds was created using my old Korg Sigma. I ran it through my Cloud 9 Flanger and Digitech Digiday since it has no inboard effects of its own. The Sigma has great oscillators. The problem I'm having with it now is none of them seem to want to stay in tune for more than three seconds and some of the dials are suffering from their age as well.
Hopefully there are enough things here to be of use.
This week I have decided to provide Eric and Darren samples that were created using three of my Korg units. The first four tones I recorded were from my Korg MicroKorg. I spend much of Friday evening tweaking some sounds specifically for this week. These are the sounds I've decided to share. The others may appear in my final contribution along side Darren and Eirc's samples.
The second group of samples are beats created on my Korg ER1. I varied the BPM halving it from the prescribed 120 BPM to 60 BPM to make it a little more interresting. I also recorded two loops with distortions from inboard effects on my Zoom MRS8 recorder. I didn't use the Sherman.
The last group of sounds was created using my old Korg Sigma. I ran it through my Cloud 9 Flanger and Digitech Digiday since it has no inboard effects of its own. The Sigma has great oscillators. The problem I'm having with it now is none of them seem to want to stay in tune for more than three seconds and some of the dials are suffering from their age as well.
Hopefully there are enough things here to be of use.
Labels:
commontones,
KORG,
Korg ER1,
Korg Sigma,
LDT,
Microkorg,
PHASE II,
samples,
synthesis,
synths
WEEK 4: s o n i c b r a t [contributor]
Tempo: 120 bpm
Key: E
These are my samples created using only KORG Triton ST88. Everything was played and recorded (sequenced) on the Triton... nothing done outside of it and all sounds were designed on the Triton itself. This project has led me to exploring this workhorse in a way I wouldn't usually (due to the nature of my work). Effects and filters (on board) were employed as a design to play with the sound and timbre. Have fun guys.
Labels:
commontones,
KORG Triton ST88,
Loops,
PHASE II,
samples,
Sonicbrat,
synthesis,
synths
WEEK 4: s o n i c b r a t [NOTES]
Hello everyone. We have come to the final week of Phase 2. What to expect? Well, in this final week, all 3 of us will be supplying samples/loops in the Key of E and tempo 120bpm. At the same time, all 3 of us will be using these samples to cut a track each. So that's 3 different renditions of the same set of samples. Take it as a show down between us 3 or simply interpretations of music. I am sure it will be interesting to see what music can be churned out of 3 different individuals, using the same set of samples/loops. Stay tuned.
Labels:
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eric,
LDT,
PHASE II,
Sonicbrat
WEEK 3 : Eric [originator]
And voila, here is the tune I made with the samples provided by Darren and LDT. Tempo 115 Key D.
Please note that I use no other samples.
I re-sequenced the drums manually (then quantized) with my TriggerFinger.
I used Morphine VST additive synth to bend the vocal sample.
Plus, I also include a little experiment with some of the samples that I tried to mix like a Oval song ;-)
Labels:
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Izotope Ozone 3,
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PHASE II,
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Monday, July 16, 2007
WEEK 3: s o n i c b r a t [contributor]
Tempo: 115 Bpm
Key: E
So here's my samples. Created solely using my old trusty KORG TRITON ST88. All parts are played and sequenced, including filtering on the Triton itself. The drum beats were played and recorded, not using arpeggiators. The vocal samples are old recording samples of mine, warped on Max/Msp. All samples are kept dry and uneffected unless filtering intended. Anyway, for the fun of it, I've placed the dry samples all together to hear how it sounds. So here's the mix track of all my samples (minus vocals):
KORGATRONICS
Do listen with a pair of headphones for better listening experience :)
Have fun Eric!
Labels:
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KORG Triton ST88,
max/msp,
PHASE II,
samples,
Sonicbrat,
synthesis,
synths,
vocals
Sunday, July 15, 2007
WEEK 3: LDT [contributor]
For this weeks contribution I decided to work with my now rarely used Roland MC-303 Groove Box. This is not the original one I bought back ten years ago. That one is packed safely in a water proof storage container in Oakville. I picked this used one up here a few years ago at Pantip Plaza.
The MC-303 was a little work horse for me back in the day. It provided drums, sequences and backing pads for the band I had with Chris Chiasson (Stick) and Richard Forsley (Guitar). It later provided the same for Snowmelter. By 1999 I was very good at programming it and its only limitation seemed to be the lack of memory available for the user. There was no way to delete the hundreds of stupid preset "grooves" (which how sound hilariously dated) and the user was only allowed a measly 50 slots.
The MC-303 sound engine is basically the Roland Sound Canvas which features PCM sample based wave forms as the tonal building blocks. They can be filtered and messed with extensively and the drum sets contain the TR-808 and TR-909 kits. The other tone sets include lots of synth, piano, bell, and other sounds. There are some rather useless sound effects but if they are pitched down enough they can be used to create some wonderfully strange and spooky sounds.
For today's experiment I worked up several sound sets for Eric. For processing I ran the MC-303 through the Electro Harmonix LPB 2ube tube preamp and into the Zoom MRS8 recorder. The MC-303 was slaved to the Zoom's MIDI clock for tempo. I used the Zoom's internal effects to process the signal further. I recorded a few variations of a string pad to start. Afterwards I recorded several drum loops through some heavy distortion and some odd EQing and compression.
I used my Novation Bass Station for a MIDI control and the remaining bits were recorded with the MC-303's tone back slaved to the Bass Station. Once I'd recorded 12 short tracks I imported the tracks to Lappy and normalized all the tracks in Sound Forge before sending them off.
Labels:
commontones,
LDT,
PHASE II,
Roland MC-303,
samples,
synths
Friday, July 13, 2007
WEEK 2: LDT
Labels:
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Bass Station,
LDT,
Novation,
PHASE II,
Sherman Filterbank,
Sound Forge,
xiosynth,
Yamaha AN200,
Zoom MRS8
WEEK 2: LDT [Update]
Diabolical Structures
The "framework" I pieced together from the supplied samples to act as some sort of guide collapsed last night under the weight of my frustration. A frustration usually reserved for dealing with all things Microsoft. The sort of frustration that might result in Grover-like arm waving and screaming. In any event at about 10:30 pm I simply gave up in dispair.
This evening I attacked the situation from a different direction. Instead of using the framework I began with laying down various drum tracks at 40, 80 and 160 BPM. I used my Yamaha AN200 and ran it through the Sherman Filter Bank and the results mirrored the sound of last nights frustration. I recorded five tracks of this, setting the Sherman on full blast for complete sonic destruction of the drum loops.
Once I'd expended all myself with this process I'd managed to create an unlistenable assault of squashed beats and shrill frequencies that proved to be as totally useless as my ill fated framework.
So.... I loaded up a blank project and began again using the Novation Bass Station and the AN200 as a MIDI slave.
And lo, it came to pass that my Muse, Space Walk Shirely herself stopped by and granted me a little idea that just might do the trick.
The "framework" I pieced together from the supplied samples to act as some sort of guide collapsed last night under the weight of my frustration. A frustration usually reserved for dealing with all things Microsoft. The sort of frustration that might result in Grover-like arm waving and screaming. In any event at about 10:30 pm I simply gave up in dispair.
This evening I attacked the situation from a different direction. Instead of using the framework I began with laying down various drum tracks at 40, 80 and 160 BPM. I used my Yamaha AN200 and ran it through the Sherman Filter Bank and the results mirrored the sound of last nights frustration. I recorded five tracks of this, setting the Sherman on full blast for complete sonic destruction of the drum loops.
Once I'd expended all myself with this process I'd managed to create an unlistenable assault of squashed beats and shrill frequencies that proved to be as totally useless as my ill fated framework.
So.... I loaded up a blank project and began again using the Novation Bass Station and the AN200 as a MIDI slave.
And lo, it came to pass that my Muse, Space Walk Shirely herself stopped by and granted me a little idea that just might do the trick.
Labels:
Bass Station,
commontones,
LDT,
Novation,
PHASE II,
samples,
Sherman Filterbank,
Yamaha AN200
Monday, July 9, 2007
WEEK 2: LDT [Render 02]
Contributions Contributed
Now I have received plenty of samples and the process begins of trimming and arranging things into some sort of framework upon which I can hang some sort of final idea. I now also remember why I enjoy playing and recording over the tedious effort of dragging and dropping samples and loops.
The MP3 posted today is an assembly of some of the various parts, some of which have been messed with extensively in Sound Forge. What you hear doesn't include a signal beep or bump produced by me, its all either Eric or Darren. I have transfered this same track from a Wav format rendering to the Zoom format and have uploaded it into my MRS8 where upon I will begin the process of further editing and recording various additional bits and bobs.
I will keep you posted on the results if and when they happen.
Labels:
Acid Pro,
commontones,
LDT,
PHASE II,
samples,
Sound Forge
WEEK 2: LDT [Render 01]
LDT: Escape Traveler Guitar with Roland GK2 pick-up, Boss WP-20G Wave Processor (pads), Yamaha AN200 (drums), assembled in Acid Pro and Sound Forge
Eric sent me quite a few samples to play with. One batch consisted of some voice things, and the other some guitar sounds. Once I had downloaded them I took them straight into Acid Pro without any normalization or tweaking in Sound Forge. I arranged them in a grid with various parts coming in and out then looked for some drums that were recorded at 80 BPM. I found three tracks I recorded recently for something else and dropped those in to the song for a basic start. I also pulled two pads from the same source that were created with the Boss WP-20G Wave Processor and added those. Then I began to arrange and tighten up what was there. I doubled one of Eric's guitar tracks and dropped its pitch by an octave. I also dropped both of the Wave Processor pads by an octave. One drum bit was recorded at 160 BPM so I dropped that by an octave and brought the beats down to 80 per minute. At that point I added volume envelopes to mix what was there.
The intent of this first render is not to influence Darren's contributions or even give any sort of idea of how the final result will sound. This process which is sort of standard for me is to organize in my mind what is there, and to provide something to listen over the course of the next day or so on my iPod. Normally I would listen to the first render for a week or two before going at it more however in this case 24 hours will have to do. Once I've received Darren's parts I will add them to the sonic stew, mix and let simmer until I have absorbed it enough to add what is needed to finish it off.
The intent of this first render is not to influence Darren's contributions or even give any sort of idea of how the final result will sound. This process which is sort of standard for me is to organize in my mind what is there, and to provide something to listen over the course of the next day or so on my iPod. Normally I would listen to the first render for a week or two before going at it more however in this case 24 hours will have to do. Once I've received Darren's parts I will add them to the sonic stew, mix and let simmer until I have absorbed it enough to add what is needed to finish it off.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
WEEK 2: S o n i c b r a t [contributor]
Tempo: 80 Bpm
Key: D
Samples created on KORG Triton ST88, GlitchedDrums created using a church bell sample and gunshot sample, glitched using Reaktor 5; normal drums created using Reaktor 5 Grooveboxes... I've kept it dry and uneffected so that LDT may chop it up and screw up my samples as he like... All yours, LDT.
Key: D
Samples created on KORG Triton ST88, GlitchedDrums created using a church bell sample and gunshot sample, glitched using Reaktor 5; normal drums created using Reaktor 5 Grooveboxes... I've kept it dry and uneffected so that LDT may chop it up and screw up my samples as he like... All yours, LDT.
Labels:
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KORG Triton ST88,
PHASE II,
Reaktor 5,
samples,
sampling,
Sonicbrat
Saturday, July 7, 2007
WEEK 2: Eric [contributor]
Tempo is 80BPM
Samples are not top high quality (I still have to work this out ;-)
Labels:
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cry-baby wah,
EHX BlackFinger,
EHX LP2Ube,
eric,
LAG guitar,
PHASE II
WEEK 2: LDT [Introduction]
Some Thoughts on Sample Based Music
I first began using Acid Pro as a system of music making in 2000 about six months
after leaving Canada. At the time my only other instrument was an acoustic guitar that I'd bought in my travels. Acid Pro gave me the ability to paste in small pieces of sound or music and build complex sequences. Originally I used the loops that were provided with Acid Pro and would mess with them as much as possible in order to make them my own. Later I began to record my own loops using various software synths. As I began to acquire more hardware and I moved away from doing music with looped samples. I began to use Acid Pro exclusively as a means of mixing tracks that I'd recorded on my small digital eight track recorder and rendering a final mix in Wav format to be tweaked and mastered in Sound Forge.
The use of samples (to be provided by Eric and Darren) to create a track is in some ways a return to the roots of my computer based recording process. I have yet to hear what exactly they will send me and I have no idea whether I will use their loops exclusively, add more of my own or if I will throw in some tracks recorded on my digital eight track. I will however post at least two versions of what will come as a way of showing the process in some greater detail.
For my week as the featured artist I have requested that the others provide tracks with a BPM count of 80 BPM in the key of D. Look for their contributions over the next several days and my efforts to follow on Thursday and Saturday.
LDT
I first began using Acid Pro as a system of music making in 2000 about six months
after leaving Canada. At the time my only other instrument was an acoustic guitar that I'd bought in my travels. Acid Pro gave me the ability to paste in small pieces of sound or music and build complex sequences. Originally I used the loops that were provided with Acid Pro and would mess with them as much as possible in order to make them my own. Later I began to record my own loops using various software synths. As I began to acquire more hardware and I moved away from doing music with looped samples. I began to use Acid Pro exclusively as a means of mixing tracks that I'd recorded on my small digital eight track recorder and rendering a final mix in Wav format to be tweaked and mastered in Sound Forge.
The use of samples (to be provided by Eric and Darren) to create a track is in some ways a return to the roots of my computer based recording process. I have yet to hear what exactly they will send me and I have no idea whether I will use their loops exclusively, add more of my own or if I will throw in some tracks recorded on my digital eight track. I will however post at least two versions of what will come as a way of showing the process in some greater detail.
For my week as the featured artist I have requested that the others provide tracks with a BPM count of 80 BPM in the key of D. Look for their contributions over the next several days and my efforts to follow on Thursday and Saturday.
LDT
Friday, July 6, 2007
WEEK 1: s o n i c b r a t
MECHANICAL DREAM
PLEASE LISTEN WITH A HEADPHONES FOR FULL EFFECTS...
Gears used: Doepfer A-100 modular system; Juno-106; KORG Triton ST88
Softwares: Plogue Bidule; Reaktor 5
Samples: Provided by LDT and Eric (refer to previous posts)
A glitchy experimental electronic IDM piece... well, I tried many versions and somehow the samples provided by LDT and Eric seem to work best this way.
All drums are glitched and spliced on Reaktor 5 using the drum samples LDT provided, no other drums were used... eq and ring mod applied. Ambient sounds are created by really really screwing up LDT's synth sounds and Eric's distorting (clipping) guitar samples, thereby creating loops of the clicky buzzy background.
I added some mild sound designs using KORG Triton, glitching Doepfer A-100 sound samples I've created using Reaktor 5 and using a little of Plogue Bidule for additional synthesis. At the end, I added a bass tone using JUNO-106 to juice it up a little... that's it.
See if you can spot the original samples. Not for easy ears, be warned...
PLEASE LISTEN WITH A HEADPHONES FOR FULL EFFECTS...
Gears used: Doepfer A-100 modular system; Juno-106; KORG Triton ST88
Softwares: Plogue Bidule; Reaktor 5
Samples: Provided by LDT and Eric (refer to previous posts)
A glitchy experimental electronic IDM piece... well, I tried many versions and somehow the samples provided by LDT and Eric seem to work best this way.
All drums are glitched and spliced on Reaktor 5 using the drum samples LDT provided, no other drums were used... eq and ring mod applied. Ambient sounds are created by really really screwing up LDT's synth sounds and Eric's distorting (clipping) guitar samples, thereby creating loops of the clicky buzzy background.
I added some mild sound designs using KORG Triton, glitching Doepfer A-100 sound samples I've created using Reaktor 5 and using a little of Plogue Bidule for additional synthesis. At the end, I added a bass tone using JUNO-106 to juice it up a little... that's it.
See if you can spot the original samples. Not for easy ears, be warned...
Labels:
Doepfer A100,
Juno-106,
KORG Triton ST88,
PHASE II,
Plogue Bidule,
Reaktor 5,
samples,
Sonicbrat
Monday, July 2, 2007
WEEK 1: s o n i c b r a t [First Impression]
As the musician of the week, I have received all samples contributions from Eric and LDT and I am excited about cutting a track out from these samples plus my own input. I actually like the clipping and imperfections in Eric's tracks which were accidentally recorded as such. I think it gives a fuzzy unstable feel to it. LDT's drums and eerie tones are inspiring for me. I don't know what I will be coming up with, but stay tune as I work on the track, which will be posted up by this weekend. I've some ideas, but I won't know how they turn out till they are materialized. Till next update...
Sunday, July 1, 2007
WEEK 1: Eric [contributor]
Tempo is 100BPM but some loop clips have been recorded with another length
Key is A
These are my first contributions to the Phase II for SonicBrat.
Alas, there are digital clipping in some of the audio samples (PROTECT YOUR LOUDSPEAKER !). I didn't hear them when I was recording under AmbiLoop, strange ...
Labels:
ambiloop,
bowed 5-string bass,
commontones,
EHX BlackFinger,
EHX LP2Ube,
eric,
PHASE II
WEEK 1: LDT [contributor]
Sample contributions by LDT:
Yamaha AN200, Zoom MRS8, normalized in Sound Forge.
Tempo: 100bpm
Key: A
All samples uploaded created by and copyright of LDT.
Yamaha AN200, Zoom MRS8, normalized in Sound Forge.
Tempo: 100bpm
Key: A
All samples uploaded created by and copyright of LDT.
Labels:
commontones,
LDT,
PHASE II,
Sound Forge,
Yamaha AN200,
Zoom MRS8
COMMONTONES PHASE II
Three musicians...
Three minds...
One song...
A weekly affair between the trio. Their first music making effort as an entity rather than solitude contributions. They will be working on a single piece weekly, a song a week, for the entire month of July. This is their next step, something they had in mind for a long time... and finally materializing. This is only the beginning.
PHASE DESCRIPTION:
In PHASE II, one musician will be appointed the "musician of the week" at the beginning of each week. This renders the other two "contributors". At the beginning of each week, the "contributors" will provide short audio samples of their own creations, anything goes (sounds, guitar, synth, etc), uploading to COMMONTONES. The "musician of the week" will collect these samples, and over the course of the week, compose and arrange a piece with the samples, plus his own input. The song will be uploaded here at the end of each week in the month.
This makes three songs, in three weeks, with the trio taking turns to be the "musician of the week". In the final week (week 4), all three will be contributing at the beginning of the week, and all three will be cutting a track from all the samples provided. Rendering three songs by the end of the week and loading them up on COMMONTONES. At the end of the project, there will be 6 songs in total.
Please join us in this journey of creating music on cyber-space.
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PHASE SCHEDULE:
WEEK 1:
Musician of the week - Sonicbrat
Contributors - Eric, LDT
WEEK 2:
Musician of the week - LDT
Contributors - Eric, Sonicbrat
WEEK 3:
Musician of the week - Eric
Contributors - LDT, Sonicbrat
WEEK 4:
Musicians of the week - ALL
Contributors - ALL
Three minds...
One song...
A weekly affair between the trio. Their first music making effort as an entity rather than solitude contributions. They will be working on a single piece weekly, a song a week, for the entire month of July. This is their next step, something they had in mind for a long time... and finally materializing. This is only the beginning.
PHASE DESCRIPTION:
In PHASE II, one musician will be appointed the "musician of the week" at the beginning of each week. This renders the other two "contributors". At the beginning of each week, the "contributors" will provide short audio samples of their own creations, anything goes (sounds, guitar, synth, etc), uploading to COMMONTONES. The "musician of the week" will collect these samples, and over the course of the week, compose and arrange a piece with the samples, plus his own input. The song will be uploaded here at the end of each week in the month.
This makes three songs, in three weeks, with the trio taking turns to be the "musician of the week". In the final week (week 4), all three will be contributing at the beginning of the week, and all three will be cutting a track from all the samples provided. Rendering three songs by the end of the week and loading them up on COMMONTONES. At the end of the project, there will be 6 songs in total.
Please join us in this journey of creating music on cyber-space.
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PHASE SCHEDULE:
WEEK 1:
Musician of the week - Sonicbrat
Contributors - Eric, LDT
WEEK 2:
Musician of the week - LDT
Contributors - Eric, Sonicbrat
WEEK 3:
Musician of the week - Eric
Contributors - LDT, Sonicbrat
WEEK 4:
Musicians of the week - ALL
Contributors - ALL
Labels:
art,
collabortions,
commontones,
eric,
experimental,
LDT,
music,
PHASE II,
Sonicbrat,
sound
Thursday, May 31, 2007
DAY 31 : Eric
Labels:
ambient,
crystal VST,
eric,
experimental,
FL-Studio,
instrumental,
last day,
MonoChrome VST,
monome40h,
PHASE I
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
DAY 30 : Eric
Tempo : 118
Color : blue LED
I finally managed to use my Monome as a note sequencer thanx to the MonoChrome VST plugin in FL-Studio host.
It's nice but not all that I dreamt.
Labels:
ambiant,
electronic,
eric,
experimental,
FL-Studio,
instrumental,
MonoChrome VST,
monome40h,
PHASE I,
PRO-53 VST
DAY 30 : Eric
Tempo : unknown
Color : neon red
Loose improvizations. I apologize for the false notes and the bad sound. It was taken with my Olympus voice recorder, it seems that I put it too close to the amp speaker.
It seems that Sonic and I both have the envy of taking the axe ;-)
Anyway I like this kind of bad sound sometimes...
Labels:
EHX Holygrail Reverb,
eric,
improvization,
LAG guitar,
Olympus WS-320M,
PHASE I
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
DAY 29: s o n i c b r a t
"STASIS"
As I sat there alone
And people passing by in slow motion
The tug, the change of decision, the look
The hide, the disappointment, the sting
Seemed amplified ten-fold...I'll take it all in
Alone...
Tempo: NA
Colour: Nothingness
Humbucker, Alesis Ineko, Reaktor 5 and some sound designs... It's a noisy droney clicky track, I didn't have enough time to touch it up, so as is... It's been a ride, a few more days to go.
As I sat there alone
And people passing by in slow motion
The tug, the change of decision, the look
The hide, the disappointment, the sting
Seemed amplified ten-fold...I'll take it all in
Alone...
Tempo: NA
Colour: Nothingness
Humbucker, Alesis Ineko, Reaktor 5 and some sound designs... It's a noisy droney clicky track, I didn't have enough time to touch it up, so as is... It's been a ride, a few more days to go.
Labels:
Alesis Ineko,
ambient,
commontones,
guitar drone,
humbucker,
improvisation,
PHASE I,
Reaktor 5,
Sonicbrat
Monday, May 28, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
DAY 27 : Eric
Tempo : 88 and 120 BPM
Color : warm green
Individual patterns recorded on Palm TX with Bhajis Loops in Parc Montsouris, sequenced/mixed with 64_step with Monome, and added reverb and some phaser with FL-Studio (no mastering with Izotope this time).
I like the pure sound of sine waves...
Second track features thunder sound recording from my home and washing-machine sound from my parents home.
Labels:
ambient,
Bhajis Loops,
eric,
experimental,
FL-Studio,
monome40h,
PHASE I,
sine waves,
washing machine
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
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