Hello everyone,
I’ve been keeping myself sane this week by listening to the amazing duos and cheekily working in advance on my contribution.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank @disquiet and everyone else involved for playing your part - from such great distances - in helping me stay focused on something positive, creative and (in an odd way) liberating.
I really love the music @krakenkraft has been involved in, so I decided to create a fake 7" single.
For Side A, I used the lush “Virtually in a Berlin School” by @wil and added an octave harmonized version of @DeDe’s ebow guitar spiralling in and out across the stereo field. I then added a layer of programmed drums in Ableton.
For Side B, I split @Jet and @krakenkraft’s playful “Hotel Double Room” into two mono files, panned one slightly left, one slightly right, then duplicated and dropped one file 12 semitones, adding a booming drum buss in d# for some low end.
The drum track was complicated. First, I converted the “Hotel Double Room” track into MIDI drums, then slowly hand-picked where I wanted the kick and snare to fall. Then, I converted three phrases from the track name to Morse Code: “d sharp phrygian” plays the hihat, “77 bpm” plays the low tom, and “krakenkraft” plays across the mid and hi toms.
To make both Side A and Side B sound like they were from the same 7" single, I subjected both to similar processes: same kick and snare sound, a public domain sample from NASA, a little vinyl crackle, and a slowly increasing “Outer Space” reverb across the duration of the tracks.
I hope you enjoy the KrakenKraftwerk trip.
Space is the place!!
With love from Japan, htnc
