adaptations/remixes

(mostly) finished

letting chaos run the show after giving it a little structure...

the main source of harmonic movement here is iteration/sequencing over chords based at G#m.  the soft sections are random selections of such and the hard sections are faster iterations over i->VI in order.

i worked a little on giving nice dynamic breaks at transition between sections (first attempt at such, both sections and working on transitions, gasp)

there's a music box (pair) running randomly over elements of the G#m key throughout.

and on top of all the aforementioned structure we're getting some random off-key behavior to help provide some tension.

beat behavior is pretty straightforward.  there's bamboo beat action going on plus a high-hat type element.  the bamboo action is glitched (as well as some parts of the music box) and the high hat type is randomly perturbed to drop out or mis-hit for rhythmic color.

sections
   . intro/layering,
   (soft,hard) x 3
   . end tail


temo baobab

my mom played this for me when i was a child.  i was looking to mix this up with some glitch and to hype it up with some dynamics but the song works so well on its own that i felt there wasn't much more to do than to give it room to breathe.

the sound texture here is inspired by Glass' work on Koyaanisqatsi among others.

moonlight sonata - for mom

My first shot at a remix...  Much thanks to Galen Wade for giving me permission to take a swing at this and for all his feedback on early versions.  

And even more thanks to Galen for re-mastering the final from track stems.  It's on a totally new plane now!

Galen Wade - The Scuttlebutt (kfractal remix)

verdant isit

I love this flow by LeTryp: http://soundcloud.com/letryp/almost-nothing-1-bar-impro
I kept hearing things that weren't there so I tried to put it down.  I have voices in my head apparently...

This was put down basically live after getting my sounds setup... so it's a bit rough.  But I dig it at least :)

signal nth moot - (LeTryp "Almost Nothing" Rmx)

Mournful organs... love 'em.

I hope the levels come out ok on this.  I've heard it so many times now i'm not sure :)  

[Note to self: be sure to listen on multiple monitors/speaker sets before uploading!]

mechanical resignation

this started out as an exercise in minimalism.  it got out of hand...

i sweated the final mix much more than usual... it'll probably be worse :P



This piece makes use of the following sounds from freesound.org:

http://www.freesound.org/people/Bram/sounds/11687/
http://www.freesound.org/people/sandyrb/sounds/35643/
http://www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/47347/
http://www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/54965/
http://www.freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/64647/
http://www.freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/67510/
http://www.freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/67544/
http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/110146/
http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/110147/


lead minimum

fours with sixes

From @galenwade: https://soundcloud.com/galenwade/the-whisk comes the tinkling and beating of a whisk.  I love whisks!  The sounds *and* the crooked eggs they make.  :)

I was working on this beat and an intro to go with it already and the whiskery just fit perfectly, IMHO.

whiskie 5 (with Galen Wade's "The Whisk")

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i'm learning to produce music...