Slowly but surely my intimate spaces (just a working title) project is progressing. I’ve split the piece cavaedium up into 2 parts, one is more drone-based, with several field recordings making up the foundation of the piece, in this second part I have cut up the same recordings into small bits creating a percussive part (on the Octatrack, which is hidden outside of the image since the room is too small and I could not put the camera further away). My approach here is the same as for all pieces in the project: create a base structure using field recordings (which have all been recorded in the same space), then process these with the modular and add some minor synthesis elements to enhance, emphasize or otherwise expand on what is already there (for example the cavaedium had a clear Db sound deriving from the comb filters present in it, so in cavaedium I I’ve based all the synthesis parts on a Db Maj scale in the beginning and end sections and on C min in the middle section). The pieces are very much a dialogue between the concrete, sample-based part and the synthesis and modular-based sound-shaping part.
Some more technical notes: Starting from that percussive part I have sent some of the tracks from the OT to the modular using it to excite Rings (which makes the percussive bassline, filtered and shaped by Natural Gate) and to trigger some modulations on Stages. Marbles does the pattern for the Rings bassline and generates random ramps to modulate several parameters in the patch. Plaits generates the main drone, towards the end there’s an additional bass sequence somehow drowned in the drone which is sequenced via Teletype and played by Tides.
