Vignettes

Dissolution

Awake/Asleep

Particulate Exposure

Four Films

Ancient Suburban Burial Mound (End Titles)

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2.8 Ancient Suburban Burial Mound (End Titles)

Classified Manoeuvres

3.1 Classified Manoeuvres

The Age of the Unthinkable

Greystone

Kilometer Seven

The End of Science

Pure Data

This nod to the Greek sun god features watery percussion (courtesy of the Nord Drum and some custom programming) as well as audio samples of Solar phenomenon.

It was composed on the iPad (in NanoStudio) and realized in Ableton Live 8.

Hinterland

Helios

(Controlled) chaos reigns supreme in this piece, which started life as a pattern in Stochastik Drum Machine (iOS). Moving to Ableton, further elements of randomness were added, with several chaotic patches from Reaktor as well as a "stable",  repeating figure courtesy of AAS's Chromaphone.  Processed rhythmic cameos from the Nord Drum and Ableton Live 8 serve as variations on the original drum pattern.

Celemony's Melodyne was indispensable in this track to remove background sound from one of the speech samples (see related post here: http://danielottinimusic.tumblr.com/post/34171893488/melodyning), as well as extracting a MIDI groove from Stochastik (which is currently audio only), and creating rhythmic variations on the Stochastik audio. 

The result has a rhythmic, dubby, subterranean feel - enhanced (perhaps blatantly!) with judicious use of delay and reverberation.

What was it that the Joker said in "The Dark Knight" - Introduce a little anarchy...  :-)

The Cave of Fallen Angels

MIDI extracted from a Melodyne created variation on the original pattern was used to drive an Ableton Drum Rack

Melodyne Variation - Ableton Audio

A chaotic piece with a repeating, modulated, gritty synth sequence/drums with calm chords/bass underneath. Conveys an atmosphere of stability in the midst of a harsh, changing background. 

The "Calm Seas" edit retains only the less chaotic elements of the original mix and adds ethereal female vocals  (Courtesy Avanna). 

The "Soundiron" edit, featuring predominately sampled instrumentation from the excellent Soundiron libraries (including the libraries noted below), is a hybrid of non-traditional, acoustic instrumentation (sampled Washing Machines, incandescent lightbulbs, hemp twine, etc.) played with an electronic, (rhythmic) feel that  produces a unique atmosphere for this track. Vocals are provided by Avanna and the Olympus Micro Choir; lyrics are from the Yeats poem "The Second Coming"

Soundiron - Laundronium (2 instances)
Soundiron - Anti-Drum Vol 1
Soundiron - Twine Bass (2 instances)
Soundiron - Olympus Micro Choir
Soundiron - Luminabells
Reaktor - Prism

The Centre Cannot Hold

A chaotic piece with a repeating, modulated, gritty synth sequence/drums with calm chords/bass underneath. Conveys an atmosphere of stability in the midst of a harsh, changing background. 

The "Calm Seas" edit retains only the less chaotic elements of the original mix and adds ethereal female vocals  (Courtesy Avanna). 

The Centre Cannot Hold - Calm Seas Mix

A seasoned electronic musician, sound designer and field recordist, the work of Daniel Ottini spans a number of genres and styles, but predominantly focuses on the exploration of the intersection between sound art and music.

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