Ok, first one! I might do a second (following the random rule) later tonight.
Left channel: @vgmrmojo
Right channel: me
This one (“Alone In A Group” from fellow Lines user, @vgmrmojo caught my ear. I really liked the spartan percussion played at a slow tempo. It seemed to afford a lot of space to work with, whilst also following the tonal grounding of the percussion .
Since reading David Toop’s memoir, Flutter Echo, I’ve become interested in his approach to prepared guitar, especially with the pinching of strings using alligator clips. I used this approach for this duet, running my electric guitar through an Ooh Wah sequenced filter and EHX Memory Man. I first made a little loop on the Memory Man, emphasising the timbres of the pinched strings, and played over this for the duration of @vgmrmojo’s track.
In Logic, I sidechained the compressor on my guitar track with vgmrmojo’s percussion so that its attack (especially on the low drum) would duck out the amplitude of the guitar. I thought that this created a nice counterbalance and gave the impression that the percussion was influencing the presence of the guitar. I also like the crunchy artefacts from this processing.
