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by Gene Eric Mann

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Signals

Uploaded October 7, 2011 11:15pm.

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I’m trying to experiment with intentionally combining two different sounds. Since I seem to find this difficult I am starting with using a drone as one of the sounds taking my inspiration from the opening tracks of the Brian Eno & Jah Wobble collaboration “Spinner”.

In this case I used a Reaktor based drone generator to generate one track. I use a lot of automation to “tune” the drone at the start of the track so that it homes in on the sound I want to continue through the rest of the track.

The second sound comes from my Novaphone 340G Reaktor instrument. It’s playing a sample which has a kind of “underwater chime” sound. Each loop played by Novaphone is quite short and played at half speed with a 4 pole LP filter sweeping across it.

It’s playing MIDI that I hand generated using the prime numbers under 200 converted into beat positions. E.g.

  2 | 1.2
  3 | 1.3
  5 | 2.1
  7 | 2.3
11 | 3.3
13 | 4.1
17 | 5.1
19 | 5.3

and so on. The result is that. barring the first note, all loops are triggered by notes played on either the 1st or 3rd beat of the bar they land on. 1st beats alternate between playing notes C and B#, while 3rd beats alternate between E and G.

I use AD PanStation to add some shimmer to the Novaphone part and automate a send to Valhalla Shimmer to add some “Eno” to the track.

The whole lot is piped through the AD Eos reverb and Vintage Warmer for some light compression & limiting.

The end result is, I think, a gentle flowing piece of ambience that points in a direction I want to go, even if it is only a first step toward it.

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Gene Eric Mann said July 14, 2014 2:56am

Works for me! Love it -- Rock on!

vaisvil said October 10, 2011 1:08pm

very nice - alien sounds - it should be the world anthem for the spacer world Aurora in Asimov's I Robot series.

Sudara said October 9, 2011 1:43pm

Listened to this twice in a row, it has a really nice mood.

Cave Street said October 8, 2011 9:13pm

nice one!

Mr Sandbags said October 8, 2011 2:26pm

I agree it's a bit shrill in places. This track is actually one of the few times I've thought I shouldn't just publish but should polish. I often struggle with this feeling and - as with this track - lose.

Elusive Gene said October 8, 2011 2:17pm

Lovely melodic fragments, overlapping beautifully. It does sound a little shrill in places, which is forcing me to listen very quietly. Intriguing! As MMI said, more please!!!!!!!

Vestigial Remorse said October 8, 2011 12:48pm

i like it... it somehow makes me feel like there's something more discontent than i am right now... Cool stuff, and I love the fact that you detailed your voyage in making it as well

Mr Sandbags said October 8, 2011 12:04pm

Thanks for the positive thoughts. I'm getting some odd distortions on playing here this morning that I didn't notice in the original (esp. since this piece doesn't play "hot"). They're not supposed to be there. Odd.

igor said October 8, 2011 11:27am

...in a direction; I too... (~_~)

Guest said October 8, 2011 4:13am

deep sounds man.

mmi said October 8, 2011 1:54am

Dude! Dude! More!

Guest said October 8, 2011 12:44am

You have no idea how much I like this song right now

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