Therapy Sessions 1

Plunging the depths to find pensive hesitation

TS 1:1 - Submariner

I sat down to make music with the intention of finding a way to express my emotions at the moment, and I was confronted with a wall of mental noise, presented to me by all the music technology at my disposal. While I struggled to find my heart, my mind was busy thinking about technology and technique. After a bit of discussion with @dr.no and @Hawthorn, decided to run with that as the concept for the piece. This is the result. 

I decided to also take inspiration from #disquiet0460 and start with a tortured, complicated sound (evocative of the mental "noise" that comes from using music tech for expression) and transitions to the starting point, then returns to the chaos. 

I started with a simple arpeggio on a nylon guitar (which I later changed to a synth sound). Added a Bitwig Micro-pitch device set to an obscure Wilson scale, and added a send track with Output Portal (granulated pitch transformations in this case) & Thermal (more glitchy feedback fx) on it. Added automation to start with Micro-pitch wet, FX send volume, and global tempo set very high, decrescendo, and then re-crescendo, over the course of the track.

TS 1:2 - Microtonal Emoji - disquiet0460

TS 1:3 - What's Inside This Box?

Frenetic activity from 4 oscillators and some percussion, modulated by 8 attenuverted LFOs + a couple of random walks + EGs, all gradually slowed down into a reverb wash by a master LFO.

TS 1:3 - What's Inside This Box?

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