Here is a collective post about our track, Stranded
We only agreed in advance that it would be good to contribute one field recording and one other layer.
@GoneCaving: I started with a field recording on a local pebble-covered beach, recording the sounds of wind & wave, and with a contact mic, my footsteps. I then added a simple improv played on a Haken Continuum fingerboard, inspired by what I was hearing in the recording. These two parts were then passed to the next part of the chain.
@Jet: I added a simple bass tone, with only a couple of note changes, to accompany GoneCaving’s melodies. For my field recording, I recorded a local songbird, a tūī, in the trees outside my house. I used granular synthesis with shifting grain sizes to make the tūī’s song fit the track.
@ermina: For my “instrumental” layer, i sampled from an earlier viola+tape piece of mine a few notes that happened to be harmonically coherent with the layers handed down to me. I used these samples in a version of my “granular gestures” patch on the modular.
For the field recording, i didn’t find anything satisfying in my sound archive. That was a few days after lockdown started, on the morning of the deadline, the air was unusually calm with a nice breeze and realizing that, i simply strapped two omnis and a recorder in the bamboo hedge next to the studio and went away for an hour that was then edited down.
Being the last in the chain, i then carved through the layers with fader automation, trying to enhance the relationships appearing between the 6 tracks.
