Turning, Returning

Galileo's Cough Drop

Feeling a bit drained by the 2010 RPM Challenge and overwhelmed by the wide assortment of music it leaves in its wake, I recorded this tune. At first, this was an attempt to experiment with creating my own convolution reverb samples, but it turned into a mind-numbing, everything/nothing all at once kind of thing. I can imagine seeing each of the various Alonetone artists’ RPM Challenge album covers drifting through space while listening to this.

For the highly-processed vocal track, I used a recording of the Apollo 11 astronauts discussing the Moon as they were first approaching it. I also used a nifty (and free!) “Live Cut” plugin that adds semi-random breaks to the drumbeat. That same plugin was used on the initial sound you hear on this track. That sound was initially a bunch of sloppy drum hits, but it doesn’t sound anything like that now because I used only the “wet” signal output (from a couple of convolution reverb plugins) and completely removed the original “dry” signal.