Darren's posts with tag: kaoss pad iii
|  | 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 :/ |
 Stayed up again for reasons of self indulgence... cut a demo using Kaoss Pad 3... here it is: | SyNtHiMoRpHoSiS |"...All is metamorphosis in life, from plants to animals and man, yes, even in the latter," Goethe wrote to Sulpiz Boisseree in 1815... Utilizing emptiness releases the intensity of the introspective experience - "Architecture of Silence" by Tadao Ando. This track was inspired by a research email sent my way via a friend.SyNtHiMoRpHoSiS is an improvisation on the KP3, nothing fanciful and it was composed on the fly... Basically I cut the demo using only KP3 (as a hardware) and nothing else. Recorded 4 tracks onto the sampler section of the KP3 from Little Talks, which is a generative patch I did using Plogue Bidule. With the four tracks of clicky bleepy stuffs done, I used a max/msp patch that generates random frequencies in harmonics input into the KP3 with grain filtering. Recorded the output and improvisation onto multi-track. Then I routed the recorded track back into KP3 for another round of filtering using other presets. Next I used the KP3 drum loops to cut another track and again, routed the recorded track back into KP3 for filtering between a filter preset and two grain presets... I "played" the filtering pattern/procedure on the KP3 rhythmically and recorded it on pad motion. The pad motion was triggered on time to the samples when we get nearer to the rhythmic section. At times it's reversed using the "reverse" function button [shift+pad motion]. I kept it going while "interrupting" the pad motion with new manipulations on the pad... did a quick mix down and mastering... The whole process took about an hour... rather ad-hoc so apologies for the bad mix in the whee hours... It's amazing to taste KP3's immaculate power as i was able, using different filters and effects from KP3, to change generative frequency tones into ambient drones. Again, just trying to see what KP3 can do for me with my limited skills... One special note to take is that there's no extra effects added to the tracks. Hope you'll enjoy the subtle nuances to the harsh and crude manipulation... check out the Photo Gallery for more pictures of KP3.
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