Glitching Satie 1

Mr Sandbags

Well the votes are in and nobody, who has commented, seems to think I have offended against Satie with this. That’s kind of cool because this really is one of my favourite pieces of music and one that I hope, one day, to be able to play myself.

It was made by playing Erik Satie’s Gnossiennes No. 1 through an instance of Reaktor hosting Tim Exile’s The Finger MIDI driven multi-effect where I had it driving a lot of different kinds of comb filtering.

That was nice but I felt it needed some extra body so I added DubStation onto the end of the effect chain.

The result is, I think, quite haunting. The original is very much present yet still a ghost in my machine…