Betrayal

Pyaar

This piece involves two drum racks, one with found sounds/field recordings and the other with standard drum kit pieces. Improvisatory recordings/samples were made, followed by an extract-mix-match-layer-groove process, which was also improvisatory. DAW utilized was Ableton Live 11.

Drums - Percussion Etude, Op. 1

This piece is meant to give a voice to all of the creatures living in the Amazon Forest however, it can be applicable to all creatures on this earth. Humans tend to only 'listen' to each other and the sounds of their everyday environment. Even 'listening', truly listening to each other has been replaced with cell phones, the Internet, the news (or lack thereof) and any other diversions that can keep us from being still because most of us cannot stand the silence. I wanted that this piece served as a meditation. I wanted the creatures' voices to have prominence and be put in the forefront.

The Amazon Forest and all of its creatures depend on the Amazon River, which can be heard throughout the piece. The smallest creature I used in the composition was the glass frog, who gives us our meditational melody to hum while we go through the forest. His melody is shadowed by a light layer of sparkly bells behind him. The lowly bush dogs carry us through the experience by taking the melody from the glass frog and singing our drone to help us center ourselves. The most dramatic and tension-filled section appears right in the middle, with the jaguar and the ocelot showing off their vocal capabilities. Other featured animals include the capuchin, marmoset, sloth, tamarin and coati. 

The percussion and drums continue to build throughout the piece, just as the melody grows and the experiences of the animals as we encounter them.

Photo Credit: Andreas Kay(Flickr)

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