This week there was intended to be a tutorial with Gareth, but had to work on the day and could not really justify missing any when things had been so rough this year financially. In my own time though, I continued forward with my track, adding some extra sounds that I would invision in a multichannel iteration of this piece, creating iterations of the Piano loop within VCV rack, mostly using the Supercell plugin to apply Granular effects mixed with feedbacks. I also added some Resonators to add more sustain drones from the Piano sample that I would imagine coming from behind, left and right speakers. A main Supercell channel was added that has a warm, pretty kind of percussive quality, kind of steel drum adjacent sound that I think elevates the piece from more of a pure melancholic dirge piece to more of a pastoral beauty, which is something I’m more interested in conveying than something more of a full on “Sad” track, I find that stuff quite corny.
For the first resonator track the sound is far softer than most other sound – the overdriven violin sound for example, so extra compression will be needed to have it stick out in the mix but the sound is quite beautiful I think so I don’t want to overdo it as to distort the characteristics, just enough for it to be heard.
The second resonator track is also very subtle but more bassy so it will most likely stick out more in the mix, the swells formed from the resonators I always love but I like how this sits next to the clean piano sound, sounds like they are part of the same as they start to desync as the loop lengths are disconnected, very happy I am able to excersise these techniques I’ve been using for drone ambient in a more Song-like format.
After putting all these elements together I started to structure everything, it has the usual Quiet -> Loud structure I seem to always gravitate to, I guess its a connection to the kind of Post-Rock associated music I grew up listening to that it always feels like things should go from small to large. I am straying away from Noise here though I think, I’m trying to expand on past projects and connect the dots between the ecstatic beauty and the sombre without any clumsiness or phoniness, I guess trying to convey my my aesthetic ideals in their purest form, which of course is probably impossible but it is worth making an effort.
Anyway the first draft is here;