Months of sound tinkering and subtleties. Now he’s out: Cluster. A song that brushes sound and counter-sound with and against the line.
I was inspired by a sound of the Omnisphere2, so I decided to use this software synthesizer in particular.
Melody voice is a Waldorf Blofeld, that’s almost clear, the Blofeld hoarded next to my Prophet 12 to the instruments with which I can best express what I want to represent.
A song of impressions that come from the heart (heart) connects with the driving beat (drive) of the machine sounds.
In addition, a pun (harddrive), because everything comes from hard drive and was generated electronically with synthesizers.
More details can be read in the sound section
I had long wanted to develop a piece of music about steve Reich's phase shift principle.
For this I wrote a MAX 7 for Live application (starting from the great Maxpatch by Akihiko Matsumoto),
which in Ableton Live generates a musical phrase from 12 tones as a continuous loop and a second, identical phrase initially time-synchronous,
delay each repetition.
As a result, the second phrase shifts continuously to the first and interesting rythmic structures emerge
as well as by overlaying the phrases also constantly other melody histories. A phrase shift to the next sound takes about 24 seconds.
The instruments play the first phrase and identical other instruments play the second phrase.
As instruments (a total of 32, all produced electronically) I use Grand Piano, Harp, Pizzikato Violin, Marimba, High and Deep Bells of various kinds and some synthetic choral and surface sounds.
Instruments were Ableton Live with Max, as well as Korg Karma for a few melodic and flat accents.
The piece is about 17'20'' long, during this time the phrases shift continuously and the variety of individual instruments
appear in groups and disappear again in order to reappear in a new grouping.
This is a track dedicated to the Omnichord Music Instrument by Suzuki. I did use the Q-Chord, which was manufactured in 2001 to supply all data via Midi to a Prophet12. The idea of this song is to bridge the time between the Q-Chord and the Prophet12. No data was changed in any way, the song is generated by the Q-Chord which you can hear with its original voices in the beginning and a bit at the very end. The Midi stream has been devided into various channels and voices, many voices are then Prophet12 sound multilayered.
I hope you got the idea and enjoy the song!
This is a song dedicated to Edgar Froese, founding member of Tangerine Dream, who died recently. The song is multitrack sequenced a lot, instruments used are mainly Prophet 12 and NI Reactor for the pads and sequences, Korg Karma for the leads, Ableton Studio DAW for the mix and drums. The song elements refer a bit to TD, Jarre and Schulze.