Darren's posts with tag: acoustic
 We can only remember a time When sleeping comes greeted by mornings As I close my eyes to see When I used to be... cradled by forty winks
A new song using KORG M3 88, toy piano, acoustic guitar (I suck) and acousmatics + sampling object sounds and antique bells. Hope you guys will enjoy this simple music. WHEN I USED TO BE
ps: I really like this photo taken by Dong. My girlfriend looks so pretty +_+
|  | First 4 photos of me practicing courtesy of YW, which can be found HERE. The rest are me porning my gears at Victoria Theatre during 0501. [05042007 - 07042007]
Here's the setup list...
Instruments:
STEINWAY & SONS grand piano (not mine, venue supported)
J&D Humbucker
Transistor Radio
Equipments:
Mackie CFX12 MKII
Behringer Tube Composer T1952
BOSS RC-20 Phase Recorder Loop Station
PODxt Live
BOSS VF-1
MOOG Moogerfooger MF105 MurF
ZOOM RFX2200 Multi-Effects Processor
DeltaLab Effectron I ADM1020
Alesis Ineko
Rodes NT3 Condenser Microphone
NUMARK CDN-88
Yep, no synthesizers, no laptops... all live music except for a click track, voice over, efx and a couple of background soundscapes on CD... everything was organic and live...
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 DEMO: PeRiPHeRaLsWell, this is my first guitar drone. Very uncontrolled, ad-hoc improvisation and recording. I was talking through email with eric from France and asking him about how to create guitar drones. I asked Terence on msn as well and they both mentioned delays. Eric of course gave a more detailed explaination of the possibilities. I am still learning and fiddling around with a guitar so this is pretty new to me. I took out my Alesis Ineko, tried out with some delays and did not like the outcome. I used the space reverb instead and immediately knew that this was the right sound I was looking for. Simple eh? Just a reverb with high tone and high decay settings... this allowed overlapping of tones and I achieved this drone. If you are a guitar player or expert in it, you'll prolly laugh at my attempt. But it's all for good learning and exploration fun :) The track was played and recorded live. No multi-tracks... just direct line in. There's no post effects added in, just compressed it slightly and boosted the signals. Like I said, it's very "uncontrolled", perhaps due to my lack of experience in playing guitars as well as effects parameter settings. Anyway, this sound was what I had been looking for. Ambient, sound-scapey, meditative type of feel. I believe with an analogue reverb unit it will sound much warmer. The Ineko is afterall a digital effects unit.
Compositions I did for a play by Action Theatre called "EVERY THING BUT THE BRAIN". These are just some of it from the 80 cues I have designed (but my effort wasted as they are all either cut or badly treated, anyway I've detached from the show; don't like the compromise). For more info of the description of each track plus photos taken during the composition and design process, do visit HERE. Here are the three songs: EVER AFTERBEDTIME STORIESEINSTEIN'S BRAIN| EverAfter | | | | | | | BedTimeStories | | | | | | | Einstein'sBrain | | | | | |
| | These are pictures taken whilst I compose and design for the play "Everything But The Brain" for Action Theatre. Now showing at the Esplanade Theatre. Here's the demo of three songs which I've picked out to upload (click on the title of the songs to listen):
EVER AFTER
This track, by approach was really simple. I mic'ed up a Hungarian Zither (CITERA) using a contact microphone and it's being fed into the KORG Radias audio in. Using a vocoder preset, I have made it to trigger a synth note (D flat) with a moderate attack and a long release. So everytime I plug a note, it will trigger the synth note. The signal is also routed through it's internal effects with delay and reverb. Another contact microphone was employed to sample the Citera with a BOSS RC-20 and the playback is reversed... This track was recorded live with me improvising on the Citera. (I have no idea how to play it so I just did what I think sound right) You can find a picture of the Citera below...
BEDTIME STORIES
A Plogue Bidule composition using a patch I've designed. The group has a couple of sequencers that triggers the risset bells and sine tones, which was passed through a rebuilder and some effects. Crytal Synths were employed for the generation of the glassy ambient. KORG Radias was used for a base drone...
EINSTEIN'S BRAIN
An abstract of the 10 minute long piece. The piano was from KORG Triton ST88. An improvisation based on the scenic mood was recorded and then reversed and picthed down to underlay the original recording. Another Plogue Bidule patch was designed to sound scape subtley underneath this track...
DISCLAIMER: There are pictures of other synths which was employed for the composition and design of other songs and sounds but I did not include the demo here... It's sad to see the way they treated my music in production... director's call, so what to do :/ |
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