Actually, rumor was that dinner was almost ready. The rest is a lot like obsessively picking at a scab (expecting it to bleed again?).…It took me three or four tries at reading it, maybe 15 minutes-I’ve been trying to make the process as easy and as unobtrusive as possible. It’s kind of my security blanket, the loathing. Written 5–10 years ago? As mentioned, sort of an examination of self-loathing. There were several dream narratives that I thought of using. Until I knew how long the vocal part was there couldn’t really be one. It’s become good practice to do it this way.
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Despite computers becoming faster and more powerful the software keeps demanding more processing power. To muddy and whine it a little more I added a reverb with a really long tail, something like a half minute (this is why there’s a sample way at the end of the piece, muted, to prevent the reverb tail from being clipped off when rendering to wav file).…To keep the synth parts from glitching on playback, because of all the effects used as well as synths, I’ve been rendering the MIDI tracks to stereo audio stems. This is kind of a crawling three note interval, where my finger or fingers just kind of roll around on a couple of nearby notes.
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I like drones and other annoying sounds, so I needed something of the sort before it all became too pretty.…I found a nice patch in Arturia’s OB-XA V. Then I copied the MIDI clips to another track, displaced them slightly, and changed the instrument-Arturia’s Mellotron V. Normally a beautiful sounding instrument. I did a sequence of two-note chords (technically not chords, are they) that had not-so-pleasing intervals-using Arturia’s Wurli V2. I wanted something a little musical but not really tuneful or even properly harmonic. In fact, without a resonator of some kind it was barely audible until I applied compression to the file, toning down the plunks and bringing up the rubbery rumble of it. There’s really nothing musical about it, not even staying on beat. An obvious place to look is in a collection of samples I made many years ago with a large rubber band.
Then I wanted a bass of some sort, as I reopened the file about a week later. That was probably the end of day one-March 11, 2022-just choosing a few samples, deciding which were to loop and which as one shot, and what effects might work. (It seems to me I have already used this sample, maybe 10–15 years ago, though I can’t recall on which composition.) The other sample from that session used here is a vocalization. I chose one that is, maybe, made by scratching or dragging a finger across the membrane-the track is copied, jogged slightly out of time, then the two are panned hard right and left. Instead of a mesh striking surface it has a plastic membrane that resonates in a very pleasing way (like x-ray film being used for a drumhead, for instance), reminding me of timbales or a high-pitched snare. Then I started running through a folder of samples I recorded with a racket toy, sort of a tennis game, called Sonic Smash. What can mainly be heard of it is a beat (caused by the thread reinforcing?), of sorts, but what I found attractive about it was sort of a rumble of rubber on rubber between those beats.…The two samples didn’t really work together, so the clicking is an intro and outro sound, kind of quoting the main body. Maybe it was some other object that was nearby during that session that I momentarily picked up.…The second sample, that loops almost the whole length of the piece, was, I think, made by rubbing the hose on itself. But how I made such a sound with that dull hose is long forgotten. I brought it home, set up a microphone, and played around with it.…The first sample I use here, a clicking sound, could easily be created hundreds of ways-pencils, twigs, chopsticks, drumsticks, et cetera (listening now, before posting this, I hear it as a metallic scratching, which I find equally perplexing). A layer of rubbery plastic wrapped in crisscrossed threads encased in another rubbery layer, this one transparent. Maybe 2002 or 2003 I was cleaning out an abandoned industrial site and found an interesting bit of hose (at least this is where and when I remember finding it). The item has been muted in the Item Properties panel and is there only to extend the end of the composition, so the reverb tail won’t be cut off. Note the single bar sample at the far right of the timeline. Reaper screenshot of “Quarantined”-draft 1.
(The text will be toward the end of the post.) I would say it’s something of a random, haphazard examination of self-loathing. My composition, the “poem” written years ago, has nothing to do with infectious diseases. Obviously anything from 2020–2022 with a title like “Quarantined” is about life with covid-19 as fact or metaphor.
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