花は咲く（東日本大震災　復興テーマソング）より

原曲を編曲、メランコリックなフレーズを少し作曲して入れて新しい花は咲くに。

花は咲く  ~piano variation~ 2021

beaming

Looking Up

Memories of the Summer_GS2021

stargazing.

2022/03/06
For some reason, this song seems to be getting more play than I expected, so I thought I'd share the story behind its production.
In January, I had just ordered a new Mac, and my old iMac broke, so I used a 2011 MacBookPro to make this song.
I usually use a guitar simulator called Amplitube to record, but this software is very CPU intensive, so naturally the old Mac was full of clipping and unusable.
However, I bought an Audient iD14 at the same time and it arrived first, so I recorded all the guitars using only this interface because of the quality of its preamps.
I had been using DTM software from time to time, but it wasn't until recently that it became a full-fledged life's work, like it is now.

この曲何故か思った以上に再生されてるみたいなので製作の裏話でもしようかなと思います。
1月はまだ新しいMacを注文したばかりで、その上使っていたiMacも壊れたので、2011年製のMacBookProを使ってこの曲は作られました。
普段はAmplitubeというギターシミュレーターを使って録音するのですが、このソフトはCPUにめちゃめちゃ負荷がかかるので、古いMacでは当然のごとくクリッピングだらけで使い物になりませんでした。
ただ同時期に買ったAudient iD14が先に届いたのでこのインターフェースのプリアンプの質が良かったこともあり、ギターは全てこれだけで録音しちゃいました。
元々DTMソフトには時々触っていたのですが今みたいに本格的にライフワーク化したのは最近で、この曲もそのリハビリに…と作ったものです。

Renewal

Ngo - Ryuichi Sakamoto 【Cover】

https://caterpillarrec.bandcamp.com/album/transparent-forms?fbclid=IwAR2MDtUAVEyTzpVchoR3fwAMPJ5VHkhc6Qsdyf_xPuVaN_SZn_5DltuNFw0

Transparent Forms - Nick Ashwood - Cat 010 

Composed in 2022 for Microfest, an annual microtonal festival hosted by Kraig Grady and Michael H Dixon. 

Transparent Forms is Nick’s first group composition following on from his 2020 solo piece Unfolding/Overlay, (Inexhaustible Editions 027). Amanda Stewart wrote in the liner notes to that: “Enfolded in the shifting tones, our ears are at the edge of themselves.” With this new work, he continues this interrogation into the edges of harmonicity and perception. Frequencies from bowed guitar, flute and clarinet burst away from any notion of a stable lattice to reshape our understandings of intervals and chords, and our listening is continually surprised and delighted by the 'tastes' and 'colours' that are revealed. 

The instruments dissolve into each other to create an unrecognisable timbral unity where melody emerges from harmonic clouds.
credits
released December 2, 2022 

Laura Altman - Clarinet 

Jim Denley - Flute 

Nick Ashwood - Acoustic Guitar 

Recording at Tempe jets by the group, Tuesday 14th June 2022 
Mixed by Jim Denley

Transparent Forms

My music sketches, original compositions, from Japan.
Recording the moment when music was born.

花は咲く ~piano variation~ 2021

Tetsushi Yamaguchi

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