Song #4: The Witch
Random musings about the creating, performing, analysis, and enjoyment of music.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
23 in '13 Song #4: The Witch
Been a bit preoccupied with things the past few weeks (explanation forthcoming), and just realized today that I never posted up song #4 for 23 in '13. Ta-dah!
A bit of background as to where this one came from: I've long been a fan of sample-laden music like Skinny Puppy, but have never given much of a shot at making any myself. Well, a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a deal on a mid-90s E-Mu Esi32 sampler, along with a dozen disks of sounds. It was, to use the parlance, an offer I couldn't refuse. Yes, it's easier to use samplers in software now, but I've always been one to like obsolete electronics more than I should. (My wife is very patient). And hey....new sounds!
So, I spent the last couple of weeks reading manuals (yes, plural...more on that later), and integrating a hardware sampler into my studio. I've been enjoying myself immensely, partly just trying to dig through the avalanche of new sounds to use.
So, I dug into the discs, and found that one of the synth sounds was of a Prophet patch, very similar to one used in an early Skinny Puppy song. And thus, this song developed from there. Amusingly enough, most of the movie samples aren't being played by the sampler (more on that later), but were sound files I happened to have from the Blair Witch project. The unearthly howl in there was from the E-mu, and was just a clip of random Blair Witch screaming, reversed and time stretched. (Yeah, that's where the hyper-creative song title came from).
I'm discovering another benefit of my push towards external gear: my desktop is a bit long in the tooth, and every instrument that goes external is one less load on my processor. Plus, having to think through the workflow limitations of the sampler is a fun restriction to work around.
More to come! Song #5 is already done...
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