DAY 8: s o n i c b r a t

"Une Berceuse Différente"

Tempo: 62 Bpm
Colour: Grey

Yet another sleepless night. My Humbucker and Kaoss Pad III

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DAY 7: LDT

"Finding The River"

Tempo: 128 BPM
Colour: Water on Rock

LDT: Novation XioSynth, Electro Harmonix LPB 2ube, Digitech Digi Delay, Zoom MRS8, assembled in Sound Forge and Acid Pro.

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DAY 7: s o n i c b r a t

"Le Garçon et le Trou"


The boy falls into a hole
The moment he closes his eyes
A place he will keep running
Towards the exit
only to never ever reach it
So he sits and stares
All day long... eyes wide, shut.

Tempo: NA
Colour: Black

An experimental sound piece using sampling of faulty cables, faulty electronics with faulty connections; microphone feedbacks; KORG Electribe AMKII, Reaktor 5, Humbucker.

Better to listen to it through headphones.

DAY 6 : eric (2)

Tempo : -
Color : light grey

This afternoon I plug the power in my BR532 digital 4track machine. Time has passed since the last use...
And I play with the scrub tool, something that is intended to find passages in a song, but used here as a sort of sequencer input (the jog wheel is very pleasant).
Only BR532 with an old track recorded by me, almost only guitar part is used.
The track was not one of my favorites.
I recorded this experimentation with my voice Olympus WS320M recorder.
Reverb is done by the BR532.

This "thing" is not supposed to be really a song, but is part of the experiments I like to make, so part of the CommonTones.
Please just consider it as an andecdotic interlude. An industrial one ;-)
It's me taking at the beginning what I have written here.

DAY 6 : eric

Tempo : 129
Color : blood green

This week-end, I installed FL-Studio on the 2nd computer of my mother.
So I had only the samples and instruments provided with FL.
I used bass and choir samples, plus Simsynth analog emulation, I explored a bit the possibilities of granular synthesis to make the choir voice cry.
Bass part uses random to select the notes I chose, tweaked a bit and give preferences to some ones.
Minimum dramatic effect at the beginning.

DAY 6: s o n i c b r a t

"Mémoires"

























Tempo: 60 Bpm
Colour: Blue

My humbucker and KORG Kaoss Pad III.

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DAY 6: LDT

"Over The Mountains"

















Tempo: NA
Colour: Green

LDT: Novation XioSynth, DOD Dimension 12, Digitech Digi Delay, Electro Harmonix LPB 2ube, Zoom MRS8, assembled in Sound Forge and Acid Pro.

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DAY 5: s o n i c b r a t

"Une Distance à Part"

Guitar Original Version:

Guitar with Drum mix:

























Tempo: 75
Colour: Blue

My cheap Humbucker and KORG Kaoss Pad III

One being just the guitar track.
One having a drum track mixed in.
The drum track was badly mixed
A song a day, that's the deal.
If only I had more time...

Picture of a new dawn at my balcony...

DAY 5: LDT

"Mountain Passage"

















Tempo: NA
Colour: Sepia

LDT: Novation XioSynth, Electro Harmonix LPB 2ube, Zoom MRS8, assembled in Sound Forge and Acid Pro,

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DAY 4: s o n i c b r a t

"Une peu de Démence"

Delirium is a luxury like the calm before a storm
Like the laughters before tears
And the adrenaline rush before collapsing
Living an oxymoron...

















Tempo: 73 bpm
Colour: Multi-colour

A mini Hungarian citera, a toy piano and a chinese gourd flute; contact microphone...

Sampled using KORG Kaoss Pad and passed through an interesting reverb that makes it sound metallic (I believe is very long early reflection). The percussion was done again by slapping the rhythms on the lid of the toy piano, and clapping of hands. No synths or any other electronic instruments were used at all except for processing using KP3, all acoustics. The recorded samples were manipulated later during post and some subliminal sound designs.

DAY 4: LDT

"Into Unknown Lands"

























Tempo: NA
Colour: Sepia

LDT: Novation XioSynth, Electro Harmonix LBP2ube, Digitech Digi Delay, Zoom MRS8, assembled in Sound Forge and Acid Pro

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Day 3 : Eric

Springarden



Color : green
Tempo : 120

In the garden, layed down on grass, with fresh air. As simple as it could seems it's not a feeling so much expressed in music.

For this tune, I just use my guitar plugged into the PC thru my old FOSTEX analog mixer and recorded and looped with Ambiloop (wonderful looper, controllable by MIDI, and freeware !). Then I mixed on FL-Studio "live" with knobs.

DAY 3: s o n i c b r a t

"Tenir des Mains"




























Tempo: 85 bpm
Colour: Blue

An instrumental piece, nothing experimental about it. Just exploiting the Casio SA-5. A bit slightly over ambitious to want to do it in one night. But this one comes from the bottom of my heart.

Casio SA-5 being the main player for most of the sounds you hear in it, sampled through KORG Kaoss Pad III. It's a battery powered toy keyboard so bear with the high level of noise and bad quality... I backed the bass up, also did the high ringing ambient with modulation (somewhere in the middle) and a guitar track with KORG Radias (but minimal)... the rest are all Casio SA-5 and a lot a lot of touching up and plug-ins used.

Picture taken at my favourite tree at TFP Cairn Hill Rise.

DAY 3: LDT

"The Other Shore"


























Tempo: NA
Colour: Sepia

LDT: Novation XioSynth, DOD Dimension 12, Digitech DigiDelay, Zoom MRS8, assembled in Sound Forge and Acid Pro

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Sonicbrat says:
It feels like falling into an abyss
where falling becomes part of being...

DAY 2 : Eric

Color : Amber-red
Tempo : 132

No beginning, no end.
One note or another, very few preferences. An approach to ambient non-intrusive music.
It could last 4 minutes or 1 hour.
A first real attempt at making live experimentation with electronic gear.

M-AUDIO Trigger Finger used to arrange the track "live", a premiere for me. I understand now that is not as easy as it seems when I see Kraftwerk "live", though they are almost just turning knobs, sliders, and playing some notes, plus singing vocals.

DAY 2: s o n i c b r a t

"Journal Intime De Pluie"




























Tempo: 100 bpm
Colour: Green

Continuing my explorations using toy instruments...

Toy piano, contact microphone, Casio SA-5 toy keyboard, sampled through KORG Kaoss Pad III; no other synths used. Percussion done by hitting the lid of the toy piano, the clicky noise from the start is done by tapping the toy piano's lid with the fingernails and grained through KP3. Added a little sound design as well to add on to the mood.

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DAY 2: LDT

"The Long Sleep"



















Tempo: TBA
Colour: Sepia

LDT: Novation XioSynth, DOD Dimension 12, Digitech DigiDelay, Zoom MRS8, assembled in Sound Forge and Acid Pro

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DAY 1: s o n i c b r a t

"LE PIANO DE JOUET"


The boy looked into the mirror and saw an old man
The old man smiled at him as he smiled back...
Their palms met and the old man looked into his eyes
With an acceptance that made the boy happy again...

















Tempo: 60 bpm
Colour: Yellow

With all my regular gears at rehearsals, I am left with bare minimal at home. I wanted to see what I can come up with using just very primitive instruments.

A toy piano, a contact microphone, sampled on KORG Kaoss Pad III and grained, Roland SH101. Recorded live, except drums added later using Reaktor 5 and layering the toy piano samples, pitching them down and reversing them at parts.

DAY 1: LDT

"Crossing The Water"

Tempo: TBA
Colour: Sepia

Novation XioSynth, Electro Harmonix LPB2ube, Digitech DigiDelay, Zoom MRS8, assembled with Sound Forge and Acid Pro.

COMMONTONES [PHASE I]

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Make music in a day...
01052007 - 31052007

Three musicians... three individuals from different backgrounds, cultures and geographical locations...

They exist in different time and space but they share one common belief - to make music from their heart. This is where cultures, voices and minds concoct to serve only artistic expressions.

Welcome to Phase I of COMMONTONES - Concert For Drifting Ghosts. In phase I of this project, the trio will be composing and improvising music or sounds on a daily basis so that there will be a new piece loaded up daily. There is no fixed theme or concept, only honesty, fun and explorations. Anything goes... from music to a sound, a simple tune, a riff, a groove to noises and silences. We may even choose to add on to a track added by either one of us. From using electronics to acoustic instruments or a mix of it... there are no rules, no restrictions. This is a virtual space where all differences can co-exist, only to express what is in the heart using a common language - music and sounds. Phase I will last for the month of May 2007.

COMMONTONES is an online project helmed by Eric Saliege [France], Lorne David Thomson a.k.a. LDT [Bangkok Thailand] and Darren Ng a.k.a. Sonicbrat [Singapore].

Feel free to comment. For drifters on the net... to share our time, space and existence.