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An Artifacts exploration: Of Unknown Origin… and a challenge!
“I found the Artefact*, dodging the patrols. scavenging The Zone. Obviously an Outsider device, their creepy mix of tech and biology, worth something to someone, I bet. What it did I had no idea, but seeing myself reflected in it’s metal surface, I couldn’t shake the feeling that, though long dead or decommissioned, it was somehow looking at me…”
(*Editors note: this is the original British, and therefore _correct_ spelling of the word.)
So of course, despite having more Boards of Canada toys than Boards of Canada already, I still caved and got Artifacts, first fruits of which I now present for your delectation or dismissal, fellow riders of the AudioBus.
I like it. It isn’t doing anything unique I couldn’t get somewhere else, but it brings a lot of Lo-Fi tricks into one hat, and makes it easy to pull them out for a little of that crunchy magic. Most abused in this instance: the bit cruncher.
This was built out from an initial brief noodle in Animoog, with multiple varispeeded and offset File Player loops, augmented with an aPolyvoks/fx patch I made to simulate sample and hold, a Factory preset, one of Venus Theory’s great free Decent Sampler patches, then live performed into AudioShare, mixing and muting and swiping and scrolling like a demon across an absurd number of channels. The marvellous Wavebox rode to the rescue come edit time.
Let me put it this way. It took… more than a few goes… for me to not screw up the live mixdown. Swearing may have been involved. Even cursing.
Oh, how I wish for automation…
Comments
Enjoyable as always! The only problem is that your accompanying blurbs are getting so good they almost overshadow the music haha!
Artifacts... Oh, I mean Artefacts lol.... Yes, it's useful to have those all together. A good deal at the intro price. +1 for AUM automation too though! Also, Artifacts again - why on earth is the voice knob so tiny. It's the most important in terms of tuning, so it should be the biggest knob, not the smallest. Hate those kind of UI decisions.
I’m definitely into this. Although it has a kind of scandì noir vibe to me.. I imagine a begdraggled detective in a grubby overcoat standing in a peat bog on an overcast day. He’s looking down at a pale delicate hand protruding from the black wetness
@Gavinski @sevenape : thanks both, for the listens and the comments. Yes, Gav, totally with you on the UI issue - I was surprised at the lack of cc-ability, it’d be much more fun if you could assign an LFO to a knob or two!
@sevenape : Ha! I love the Scandi Noir suggestion. Obviously tapping into the Jungian collective unconscious flow or something, because the thing I’m working on next (was actually nearly finished working on, to be exact, when an auto update for Koala crashed it, unfortunately. So I’m leaving it for now, and will return to it tomorrow when I’ve stopped seething) is actually very Scandi Noir… and also a true story from my life. Oo-er! Spooky action at a distance, or something…
No - it does have parameters exposed (as well as inbuilt midi learn). When you open the midi controls list in AUM, at the bottom you will see it says ‘Lofi’. Click on this and you will see all the parameters. Weird way to do it, I also had to take a second look before realizing they were actually there! So yeah - assign away to your heart’s content!
Oh, cool - didn’t realise that! Thanks!
Nice! As always.
The words spelling even one step further (historically) would be 'Artefakt' (Germanic) and where the English language evolved it from. Still the spelling in my language, I think it's sexier with a K but I'm biased in the matter 😁 Also, maybe even more Scandi Noir then(?).
A great piece of music, enjoyed it very much! frenq
I enjoyed this one a lot Irena and your style is definitely changing and evolving…
I think it’s the first time I’ve whipped GeoShred out and tried to solo over the top of one of your tracks, D Minor I thought ?
And you say you don’t do ‘real’ music… ha ha 😊
Thanks all. Yes, @Pxlhg : ‘K’s are cool
And especial thanks to GeoTony. I’d love to hear what you could do to one of my tracks. Virtually everything I do is in D Aeolian, and usually with AUM running at 20 bpm. I’d run it even slower if I could. Keeping it fixed this way keeps it easy for me if I want to mix and match things, because I’m really really not a musician, and I don’t know how to do anything more complicated. (Remember the old gag about what you call someone who hangs out with musicians? A drummer. Guilty as charged…)
Feel free to have a go if you want. Or not. No pressure
I don’t always keep stems, and I have only the mixed wav of this one. Still, ifyou did fancy a go, pm me email address and I can send a link, or you could screen cap it of course.
That’s an open invitation to anyone here, btw. I’m always up for collabs or remixes of any of my stuff. Catch me soon after I post something, and I’ll probably still have all the unmixed stems and the AUM session available. Do as much violence to them as you like…
Nice piece! Very evocative. You are enviably productive also, it seems. I'm having trouble finishing a couple of freaking Noises banks, fer Chrissake. Speaking of which, did you come across the Giant Isopod synth before it disappeared from the App store? That may have been years ago, in any case It would seem fairly up yer alley thematically and sonically. And it still works without fail every time, nary or crash or hiccup in all the hours I've spent with it, so it's disappearance is odd. Anyway, thanks for the tune, v. good stuff.
@GUB : Thank you! Making my noises is my chief hobby these days, overtaking short story writing, and as a retiree, all I have between now and my final dirt nap is noodling. So, yes, panning for those little flecks of if not gold, as least a little iron pyrite now and then lets me turn out quite a lot.
Quantity, if not quality! I try to work with as little filter as possible, and no agonising post-production, just make a thing, and if I like it in the moment, post it, and move on. It helps that recording AUM straight into a single AudioShare channel makes for a very streamlined workflow. Sometimes I surprise myself, and find the resultant piece actually holds up…
Yes, I love Giant Isopod, it lives on as a rock-solid zombie app on this iPad, a victim of Apple’s hostage taking extortion fee to developers (you don’t pay the annual fee we off your app from the store)… I guess it just wasn’t worth it to the dev to keep paying out for an app whose sales must always have been low. As long as this iPad still works, I’ll have it, but I still resent the fact that Apple deliberately nerfed the ability which existed initially to do a proper local backup of your iPad. It means you can lose access to apps you have paid for at their whim at any time. Disgraceful.
Every fresh Apple update worries me in case it is the one that totals the app, I have lost several that way, and I may well have to freeze this one soon and switch to my Pro, just to maintain it for as long as possible.
Lush and atmospheric, with an air of mystery and slightly "crunchy" around the edges. It fits the title and your scene setting perfectly. Maybe my favourite track of yours so far @Svetlovska !
Oh good, you have a speciman of the Isopod! I'm glad some of its remaining numbers remain in appreciative hands. Keep up the good work! As a musician and curator of apps that are nearing extinction.
Oh bad, however, about Apple now preventing complete local back ups, if I understand uou correctly. I was under the impression this could be done with third-party programs, but not so? Is it possible to your knowledge to image an iPad’s drive, and just transfer the entire image to a different iPad, or is that the same thing? Seems arbitrary and tyrannical in any case.
Out of curiosity, for your archive pad, what software version are you freezing it at?
@AlterEgo_UK : Thank you!
@GUB : apparently, there are third party apps which let you back up the current state of your iPad, but you will only be able to restore legacy apps hosted on your current iPad if they are also still available to original purchasers (even though no longer offered for sale) from the Apple Store at the time of your backup. If, as is the case with Isopod, it has already been removed from the store after your purchase but prior to your first backup, you will * not * be able to restore the app, even though it still shows in your purchased list. I know, I’ve tried…
Well, that’s not at all confusing. I’m gonna try and puzzle this out later and tend to more pressing Ms, but do you have any idea when GI was removed from the store for firsr purchasers, roughly anyway? GI is available now on the store to legacy purchasers, but invisible if you didn’t buy it previously, innit?
Beautiful!!!
beautiful piece - really love the pad used, and then the additional keys/bells.
Also your quote sounds something out of No Mans Sky, which suits this piece perfectly
Another fantastic piece from you. I think that you don’t need any ‘Artifacts’ to create such an inviting and mysterious experience!
Irena was kind enough to let me have a go at ‘embellishing’ her lovely track so here is my variation…
Thank you @GeoTony, for your masterly addition to my little noise. You’ve given it an almost ‘French sad art house movie’ kind of vibe.
I’m seeing the despairing ex lover draining a final espresso, tossing back a pastis, before shrugging Gallicly, and walking away into drizzle and fog, heading for the river, and the bridge, his hopes of love and life shattered at the very same cafe where he first saw her, and where she now sits, oblivious, with her new man, not even noticing him as he walks finally from her life, and his own…
Together with @rottencat’s excellent, and very different conceptualisation for the piece, I feel doubly honoured.
You have brought what I lack the musical skill to do, which is to extend the melodic component, with great sensitivity, might I add.
My big problem is that I know I lack the chops to impart motion and development to my pieces, through absence of basic musical skill, so when someone like @GeoTony comes along, he is able to add that secret melody sauce. Tony had to work with the final mix entire here, (and did a fine job of it) as I am a bad archivist of my own material. It would obviously be a better idea to be able to pass the whole AUM project and stems for a piece over to a collaborator to mess with/improvise over/remix to their own taste.
So, emboldened by the extra dimensions @rottencat and @GeoTony allowed me to see in this piece, I hope it won’t seem too forward of me to offer up my latest, fresh from the oven this afternoon, to any of the expert extemporisers out there who might fancy a crack at it? (Don’t worry, I won’t make a habit of it. I’m not that kind of girl. Even if I am always open to suggestions…
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So I’ve released it for free download on Soundcloud if you prefer to work with the final mix, just help yourself, or if you’d rather do a wholesale remix and remodel, just drop me a PM and I can email you the AUM project and/or individual track stems, before they inevitably vanish into limbo on my iPad.
Here’s the piece:
I (obviously!) like it as it is just fine, but I’m not precious about my stuff. Spindle, fold, or mutilate at will, if you feel the urge. Make it better, or make it your own. Best of all: surprise me! Anyone up for the challenge?