Thank you @SMesquida ! Love to share some more about the process
The guitar parts on this album are usually pretty straight recordings with acoustic guitar → microphone/recording device (no effect pedals). I’ve used effects in ableton (eq, filter, Rodrigo Constazo’s Confetti, Andrew’s Prosody etc).I wouldn’t call myself a guitarist so the stuff I do is almost always improvised/ jamming/ experimentation-based, and not particularily good from a techical point of view. There’s always an edit-phase of the recorded material to find decent parts, cut/paste, restructure etc. I should definitely focus more on good sound quality while recording, but I mostly prioritize working on ideas and getting stuff recorded.
I never use a metronome and almost never sync my gear. Partly because I’m a little bit lazy, but mostly because I think I’ve become comfortable with a way of making music that is very loose, with lots of parallel, asyncronous processes mixed and mashed together.
In this project I didn’t. The first phase was made during my summer vacation and all I had available was an acoustic guitar and a zoom recorder. Guitar and field recordings were captured in this periode. In the second phase the recordings were structured/edited and used as a base for further experimentation with Norns.
Norns is essiential to my process and a very important part of all the things I’ve done lately. In other project Norns has/will be central from start-finish
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