NOT DEAD
OK, my hugely extended break working on the “River Conga” project continues, but here’s something else!
I took two little snippets from the song “Horizon” by Genesis (from Foxtrot). Looped the first one and then after a bit brought in another copy of the same track, slightly delayed to create a clean, decayless echo effect. Did that two more times so that there were four echoes going (I like this because it really deeply affects the way the sounds…uh…sound, like how in this to me there’s a part that suddenly sounds like a cello when there’s four of them). Then brought in the other snippet, which is 2/3 the length of the other one so when looped it creates phase patterns up against the other sample. Halfway through each of the now five tracks, I reversed the playback, so gradually, almost unnoticeably at first, the whole thing becomes backwards (all of a sudden I like using backwards effects).
The whole thing felt a little too pretty to me, so I hummed a low, slightly off-key note and worked with just a fraction of a second snippet of it. My voice is so far out of my control that there’s a noticeable warble in just this little piece of it. I looped it for a long time, added some reverb, reversed it, threw on an affect Audacity calls “Vocoder” that I honestly can’t figure out what it does (it doesn’t seem to be a vocoder in the sense I know it), and then reversed it again, so that it was going forwards but the vocoder effect was going backwards. Then I doubled it and offset one track by half a cycle to cancel out any changes in volume, and finally put this under the whole thing, including a brief moment at the beginning and end where it’s the only thing happening. The track as a whole is practically a mirror image of itself.
It’s not done; I think it’s a complete backing track, but it needs something going on in front of it. Haven’t decided what yet.
