Cold Hand Murr - Sandalwood

YouTube via coldhandmurr
"For all the headz who enjoy a live tweak. Link to audio download follows description.

Perfourmer and DRM1mk2 take a ride through the smoke of an incense laden room in the early morning hours of March 20, 2010. Two [Vermona] Perfourmer channels linked together form the main synth line. A second Perfourmer channel adds geometric squeaks, while a third provides some rhythmic noise osc. DRM does the drums, with a showing of the excellent snare.

Sequence is a single 16-step pattern distributed from a MAM SQ16. Yamaha reverse gate touches the DRM snare. Yamaha stereo delay fleshes out some components and manifests the playing field for aural expansion. Boss reverse pitch shift applied to non-leading Perfoumer patches and DRM hats. Washout on snare in the latter part of the vid is from the DRM's snare reverb.

Audio was recorded from Yamaha 01v phones output, into line in input of Olympus LS-10 portable recorder. Camera is Canon SX120. Post-processing done in Audition: Slight parametric EQ shelving for adjusting the balance of bass and highs, followed by look-ahead hard limiting to -2db to maximize punch. Hopefully keeping the audio level away from 0db a bit will avoid the introduction of pumping compression during the YouTube upload processing. /me crosses fingers

Video is of the live recording which produced this piece, overlaid with a random fern thing recorded at Wild Basin preserve in central Texas. Composited the videos, and time-aligned the audio, in Premiere Elements.

(Finally got some time to make music after about a year of dying to. Looks like the setup has its kinks worked out and I've got a comfortable production methodology.)

Link to audio: MP3 and FLAC audio files at coldhandmurr.com , entry # 12. http://coldhandmurr.com/"