I’ve been experimenting with some digital destruction techniques lately and thought I’d apply some to this week’s assignment. Namely, in Ableton Live I put a chorus and a reverb and then five utilities with their gains turned all the way up, then a limiter. You can get some interesting glitches this way as the reverb tail decays. (I stole this technique from a Mr Bill video on youtube.) In this case I used it to get something reminiscent of lo-fi vinyl beat chopping.
I also was playing with some simple bit-reduced synthesis, which produced some more familiar low-bit-rate tones. I threw in one bit-reduced field recording. (OK, “field” in this case was my back yard. I’m not sure what the sound was, but I was trying to record moths and failing at that, it seems it’s too early in the season here.)
Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SmDJA9jlUEr6yBmxsFNJZwNKM9aiMX3v?usp=sharing
(I was having trouble uploading to soundcloud…I may revisit that tomorrow and I’ll update this post if I can get that to work.)