this has some new tricks. incl a classy slick section out of nowhere...

http://soundcloud.com/tigress00/stranger-n-e
Last edited by jancivil on Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:47 pm; edited 1 time in total

I love the guitar (again), and the drums on here, but the trumpet? section was really impressive. Some nice reverb through that part. I may be reading too much into this but I get the feeling that these "Stranger" pieces form one longer continuous work and this is building towards something climactic.

Very good indeed

trombone. this instrument has a pretty high range, very strong and clear at the top of it. This works more like a valve 'bone than slide tho. the stuff later in the section I think would be impossible for slide trombone.

when I built this, the foundation was audio more or less the same as that of the foundation layer of "A".
(that is soundscape stuff I make with mostly Absynth [4] and Guitar Rig [4] in Kore2. That is the basic ebb and flows of the composition. Before I can have a lot of orchestration up I have to commit the first layer to audio.
I use some very long Absynth envelopes for one thing which is the CPU hog of all time.)

here I wanted to present as quiet and mysterious a stranger as I could. for a couple days I was approaching it as more of a purely electronic thing, with some FX percussion.

the next step for the 'sans strategie' M.O. is some Reaktor Skanner, one or more lines to articulate the basic shape/composition. Now, there is a preset that's very warm and very cutting at the same time I've been starting with. It very much agrees with mid-brass and high winds. Dialing in 'envelope' and 'modulation' amounts, gives pulsing, you can dial in changes in meter/tempo by that.

So I like to play off that with cymbals. I got kind of enthusiastic with that and got to a certain detail of the thing thru that.

Again, the changes of mood are determined by the first layer: in both A and E there is that declarative introduction that ebbs out into a mellow mood.

The Skanner agrees so much with the trombone I have in the template that's a no-brainer. I had that drums and percussion thing nearly formed and I came up with the trombone line in one sitting, and set about with more particular drumming following that. I had thought early on that standup bass would be the thing if I got bass in, and it perfectly suited the mood of the 'bone and the jazzbo drumming. I did not know this would be the direction to this extent. The personality of the 'bone rules ok. 'The Bassist' knew exactly what to do at once.

this is a larger conception, if only because I like the vibe of this 'orchestra', this landscape and its population. I think I'm getting to be enough of a composer to bring it off, though I don't know exactly where it will go. I don't write things out, everything is direct-to-project off of 'through-comprovising'.

Thanks. It's pretty wet there; the channel level for the 'bone is backed off a bit but with a lot of send, and there's a lot of tail w. a high-ish wet level. there are two 'verbs it's sent to, one a big room and another for some 'diffused taps'. my automation maps get to be kinda long lists per these mixes.
thank you. we are amused with this one too.

Most excellent, I enjoyed that.

It oozes a classy and mysterious atmosphere without being pretentious in any way (which can often be the case with this 'concept' jazz style)

thanks

I'm pretentious enough tho. I pretend to be able to do something until I can bring it off.

but I was brought up in, steeped in jazz. I don't often go there directly, I have a lot of other things on my mind it seems. But apparently a line like that occurs to me naturally. That section came the quickest by far.

It's like some derivative of acid jazz... Cool.

thanks for dropping by, n0rd!

I'm not sure what acid jazz is but I don't mind the tag, I've gone for it myself, it sounds good! I was about to say space jazz or something for this. the bottom layer is pure space...

"F" is turning out to be quite a departure. The end of this E took me into a groove mode. F is quite a bit more direct/less tricky. A lot of 4/4.

Really enjoyed this one.
Thanks.
Reminds me of some 50's movie soundtrack.

thanks, Michael.