Hey, I’ve made it nine days into Jamuary. (More on what Jamuary is here.) I’m not going to post all of these as individual posts, more likely as batches.
▰ 06\31 — “Traveller Feller”: This is a step forward from yesterday. Rather than two source field recordings, there are three. The beat, per se, is a pair of white noise equivalents (interior drone of a refrigerator and a fan in a bathroom) cut up and swapped back and forth. The third element is the same street musician as last time, pitched differently and brought more to the foreground. As the track proceeds, the speed at which the sampling of that third element occurs gets faster, which alters the way it sounds in playback (a little more cut-up, even jittery). And then, as with yesterday’s track, at the end it goes back to the original speed, which is a shortcut to a kind of closure. This was a lot of fun to put together, and especially interesting was trying to locate patterns that surfaced the most musically interesting elements of the source audio.
▰ 07\31 — “Monk Chip”: Continuing to push the same patch forward, the Patch of Theseus, switching one after another module as I move ahead. Tried to apply some automation to the pitch of all three samples. It’s rudimentary, but turned out kinda fun.
▰ 08\31 — “Trumpet Tantrum”: This might be a good mode: Making a patch at the start of a week, and nudging it a bit forward each day, and then starting over for the next week. In any case, the differences between today and yesterday are two. First, this is now a public domain field recording of a street musician, a trumpeter, in the “lead” spot. Second, that same “lead” recording appears twice: once using the same treatment as earlier, and the other using a granular module.
▰ 09\31 — “Quad Rat”: Probably the final, at least for now, variant of this seed. I may go back and label them as such. This version has four sample sources, drawn from the previous rounds, all but one now through a granular module, the other “merely” chaotically pitched. All in VCV Rack. At first it’s just three samples, and the additional one is introduced about halfway through.