That transition! Those strings. Incredible Jon and Olafur. Its a beauty guys. This track could be an ep on it's own :)

thank you both for making our days better

..this is my first time. Thanks SO Much!!!🙂‍↕️

i love this ❤️‍🔥 absolutely gorgeous 🙏

Te mando abrazos, te quiero mucho 🧸🔑🎈

Makes me cry for humanity and our decendants what we have done to this planet! God save our souls!

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Remix of the track 'Fragments of Self' from 'Fragmented Self' by Max Cooper and Tom Hodge.

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When trying to make creative decisions based on the results of somebody else's process it makes you try things out that perhaps you wouldn't normally think of and I'd say with every remix I've ever done I've come away with something new.  Sometimes its interesting to take a track in a completely new direction but in the case of Max and Tom's collaboration I was immediately drawn to the subtle harmonic undercurrent of the synth lines beneath the main piano parts and figured it would be interesting to put together an arrangement that brought that to the fore. 

I started with a rough layering and overlay of the piano samples - trying to re-arrange them into different combinations than in the original to create something that had the same feel (on a side note, its always pleasing to work with recordings like this of instruments that sound played - i.e., you can hear the movement of the pedals and the fingers on the keys rather than a surgically-extracted sequence of notes) but that came to the main melodies from a different angle.  I can't really compete with Max's glitchy rhythmic production and since this is so distinctive it seemed like a bit of a cop-out to make too much use of these samples in any case so in the end the main part of what I used of the rhythm was a short kick drum sample that I processed in various ways to create the studded melodic cross-rhythm that I used for most of the middle of the track.

With the bare bones in place the majority of the rest of the work came from layering up the arrangement with the kinds of synths and strings that I make use of in my Petrels stuff.  Like I said, I was drawn to the low root synth line in the original that casts a subtle melodic shade over the piano lines so using this as a starting point I slowly built up the orchestration around it so as to make it much more of a focal point.  In the end, hopefully the result is something akin to a huge group of assorted musicians attempting a spontaneous live version of what essentially started as a duet performance. Well that was the idea anyhow.

Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Fragments of Self (Petrels Remix)

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Ascending, Dawn Sky (Meditation Version)

Tayos Caves, Ecuador (Meditation Version)

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part viii - nothing is lost

Forever Held

Downwards

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Track 2 of 4 is named "Sour Medicine" It means simply that the medicine you take for your sickness is making you more sick, it seems. 

Sour medicine-Track 2

Afloat

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re:turn!

This is a melody that keeps recurring. I think one of my older pieces might have used it, but I'm not sure... I'm losing track of the details of my past. Produced in Bitwig Studio.

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