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Ascension (improvised melodic / ambient with LaGrange and ApeMatrix)
Our Earth undergoes so much change yet our eyes seem to gaze lower and lower. Our frame of view is many times limited, distorted and obsessed with borders. Information is rushed and incomplete. Can we still look towards space, towards the stars with this attitude? What will we see? Is there hope at the end?
Well, it's not the most original title given the SpaceX mission that happened last weekend, but there you go 
For those interested in the process of making a work, this one consisted in the first stage of a pure improvisation in Bb minor on the keyboard. I recorded it in Xequence 2, sending the output to two instances of LaGrange (so that I have a 4 oscillator synth). What I love about ApeMatrix is how quick you can use its army of LFOs to modulate all the parameters in LaGrange - yes, I know the synth has its own modulators but when using ApeMatrix you also get visual feedback and the actual start and end parameters are easily customisable.
Following this I duplicated the midi track and kept only some lower notes in two sections which I sent via a simple arpeggiating patch in Drambo to another LaGrange, modulated as above. Finally I designed some drones using the base root note and yet another instance of this great synth.
I've added FX with some usual suspects such as Alteza and VirSyn's TapDeplay which I love to set to its maximum of 10s and use it as a sort of Frippertronics device.
I then played the sequence and recorded the audio of this whole new setup and brought it to AUM into which I also brought some public domain recordings from NASA of Apollo mission chatter and some reports the agency was making on tape. Since I like generative techniques I put the samples into FlexiSampler in Drambo and using the random slice setting I was able to get a random bit of sound everytime a note (any note) would be triggered by the sequencer. Seasoned them with delay and reverb.
I actually hit record and "played" the volume faders of these sampling Drambos along with the music. I know this could have been done easier in a DAW but I felt it was nice to do it this way as it was almost like a tape-era process where a lot of the work was in real time.
The video wasn't made on the iPad, it's a quick play with public domain videos in Kdenlive, which is quite a competent software and has a very interesting loads of effects, all for free.
Thanks and enjoy!
Comments
Very nice!!! Both the sound and the video!
Entertaining package. Very enjoyable.
You took me on a nice space trip! Weightless and without a fixed frame of reference.
Now I'm inspired to make something with swelling attacks (i.e. without an observed start of the note).
I think I'll make set up some latched note drones and use LFO's for the AUM volume sliders.
Very enjoyable track and video, and great description of your work flow, mucho appreciated 👍
Thanks guys, much appreciate your listening!
Yes, I find process sometimes equally as valuable and inspirative as the result. And changing workflow and trying different approaches (again, even if there are easier ways to do something) can trigger new sounds or "unlock" the creative flow. I also find it also to have a post-analysis of a track not just aesthetically but also composition-wise.