Rapture

Reverberation Project for Studio Recordings and Techniques class.

Reverberation Project

With this composition I wanted to create a rather soothing and misplacing environment. I chose electric guitar as the solo instrument for the peace in order to produce a very clean and analog sound that through composition meant to become almost organic. Composition is built out of a five track recording of electric guitar (played by @Dylan Lee Brady) with some use of a delay pedal. Tracks after recording were edited to short and long loops, faded in and out, equalized, and some were just left raw. I built the structure on the lower tone guitar part that had a repetitive motion and looped it. One of the delayed guitar parts was solved down by about 25% to create a feeling of misplaced timing.

5 Layer Cake

I record a ridiculous variety of synth patches using a digital synth VST, the Korg Monotribe analog ribbon synth, and the modular synthesizer. I brought multiple separate tracks in and out in order to create a range of textural density. I wanted to build cosmic atmosphere with variety of "pulsating" samples and high frequency repetitive patterns. 

The name and the overall feeling of the peace was inspired by "Transit of Venus" natural event. The transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun. Venus crossed the face of the sun on Tuesday June 5, 2012, a sight that was visible from parts of Earth. This was the last transit for more than 100 years.

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