Once a year (at least) I re-mix and re-invent white collar criminal, a track I started work on in 2004 and don’t intend to finish. The first one was a zero birthday present for my godson, Rhythm, and they’re all dedicated to him.
This year’s version is a noisy, glitchy, live-in-the-studio jam on my drum machine with a ring modulator, an oscillator, a crusty old sampler, an optical theremin, and lots of echoes.
It’s unedited and I filmed it so you can see I didn’t cheat. The only thing happening unseen is the occasional tweak of the delay feedback on the desk, just out of shot.
The new toys are the ring modulator and optical theremin: the former is used throughout to warp the drum sounds via the Good Will Audio Generator and the latter makes an appearance just before the end of the clip.
But more about them later, it’s 2 am and I still have noise to make. Download the track(s) here.
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Hehehehe, I’m kinda hoing that it was filmed on the 5 dollar camera that was found lying on the beach then picked up at the dump. I’ve been thinking about doing music at the opening… be a lot more fun than schmoozing and having to explain yourself to people who avidly listen to every word or whos eyes glaze over when they realise they only wanted to talk about what they thought of ones artwork and blunder unconscious through the speeches we make, seeing their discomfort and riding it like a cheap gala day ferris wheel.
Yeah I like the sound of that. I’ll bring some toys.
he loves it!!!!!!!!! so do I
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