Apologies for my very lateness!!
I wanted to hear what would happen if I let the timbre and original pitches of the Dischoir dictate the composition, with me serving as the transcriber/arranger. So I used the samples without change as much as I could, while still attempting for it to sound like a community choir singing together… just one that happens to gather online rather than all at once in a room.
So this is it - everyone, the whole Dischoir. I have it at 53 participants, I think. One sample from every Dischoir member is in the mix somewhere, for the most part unprocessed. There are two people who sent in multiple samples, where I used two of those in the mix (@baconpaul and @atomboyd ).
Only very minimal pitch shifting was used, and in only 5 voices, mainly to follow the melody - the lower note in @atomboyd 's voice a minor 3rd down for the main motif; In the middle section: a major 2nd down in Hugh’s (@DetritusTabuIII) voice, my voice, and @atomboyd 's high melody, and a major 2nd up in AJ Miller’s (@brasslens) drone to match a chord change. Everyone else is at the same pitch in which they originally sang their sample.
There is some sample stretching, done through Groove Clip Looping in Sonar. And plenty of voice doubling throughout. Otherwise, there are no other effects. The arrangement was edited and assembled entirely in Sonar.
I started the process by listening to every sample and grouping them by pitch. Then, after the initial inspirational spark of the main riff heard in the first measures, I worked with the pitched groupings to create the final chord structure and arrangement around it. This took awhile! But I’m very happy hearing the results.
Thanks to AJ Miller (@brasslens) & @atomboyd for the inspirational interval spark.
Some of the featured voices:
@atomboyd , Hugh (@DetritusTabuIII ), @VonnaWolf on leads and higher featured lines.
@abalone and Cray in key drones.
@ikjoyce holding down the root bass note solo in one of the chords,
and @Jet for the marvelous throat singing bass!
