#7

Thanks!!! Digging into your album, now :slight_smile:

#8

Listening now.

Some favorites that your piece reminds me of: Elaine Radigue’s Trilogie de la mort (partially informed by the deaths of her son and her spiritual master), and Irezumi’s Thirty. (informed by the loss of his brothers) It’s important and valuable to be able to process those emotions through music, and I often prefer when the work is being informed by personal experiences and becomes therapeutic in its creation.

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#9

That is a very very flattering comparison – thank you! And thanks for bringing Irezumi into my world, because, damn. “Thirty” is the platonic ideal that my album was shooting for, and I have no idea how I didn’t know about it until now.

And you’re right. I think this is one of the things about being a musician I appreciate most: it really does help me process life.

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#10

Would love to here any notes about how you created this album @zuliani

#11

Of course!! Both tracks have as their base a time-stretched sample from a synthesizer – I think an MS-20 mini – that was originally around a few seconds. “December” is filled out with some triangle wave, as well as some resonating filters from the MS-20.

The percussion in “January” is actually an electric guitar, time-stretched out of whack and pitched down. Some extra help with mastering that one came from my friend Andrew Lee, of Holy Hum, whose stuff is very worth checking out, too. Especially “Appendix C,” which played a big part in giving me the courage to compose longer songs.

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#12

Thanks, everyone, for all of the support! I am very touched.

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#13

I’d love to get a download code too.

#14

Please send me a download code as well, it sounds like something that would interest me. I’ve dealt with the loss of several close friends this year. I hope that you are getting along ok.

#15

very cool. Is the few seconds sample stretched the entire song? or is it slowed down and re chopped up. Very cruise on the amount its slowed down. I have listed to this 2x and im into it.

#16

Sure thing! I’ll send you one via PM.

#17

I’m sorry to hear that – my thoughts are with you. And so is a download code! Check your PMs :slight_smile:

#18

I think I ended up with like a week-long audio file and grabbed bits from here and there, but a lot of the moments of transition between “notes” are continuous bits from the stretched sample. There was something really exhilarating about discovering those while I was making it.

#19

im fascinated with the time stretching technique. Sorry for so many questions. What do you use to time stretch it? does the time stretching pitch it down?

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#20

I used paulstretch, which is incredible precisely because it doesn’t affect pitch. It’s a granular time stretch, with lots of tweakable parameters – a bit like a huge, virtual, MU Clouds. I really recommend checking it out!

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#21

Thanks for this, It’ll be good listening this weekend.

#22

I picked this up from bandcamp last week, and I’ve been really enjoying it. It’s cathartic to listen to, so I can only imagine it was cathartic to create. Well done!

#23

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me.

#24

From reading this thread, i think i’d enjoy thr music you have created, could i have a doenload code please? Thanks!

#25

Yes, for sure! I’ll PM you one :slight_smile:

#26

It occurs to me now that I have a different album that is even more stretch-heavy – the majority of it is taken from a single source, a Patti Smith song, which was stretched out to around half an hour or so and then cut up and reassembled.

DM me and I’ll send you a download code!

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