How I Did It
Uses samples from:
Tools I Used
Slicer, from ixi-software.net
magix audio studio 10
Anvil Studio from www.anvilstudio.com
Samples I Used
A sample from the Laos jungle from soundtransit.nl.
The mixter samples listed.
My collaboration "Faith Without Creed" with Igneous Flame and "The Great Blue Heron Drone Sample" form this site were used.
Process
FX10243 posted a MIDI piece called Electronic, which I felt would be useful for a remix. I imported this MIDI into Anvil Studio, which functions, among other things, as a simple freeware music notation program. I slowed the tempo of the piece down from 300 to a fraction of that. Then I changed the instrumention so that strings and an organ would be the instruments. I then used the Slicer sample slicer to alter the sound a bit.
I located the Laos forest sounds on soundtransit.nl, and felt that these sounds would make a great underpinning for a piece. So I placed them on one track, largely unchanged.
I wanted something to give some counterpoint to the piece, so I took gochord from the experimental guitar package, time-stretched it, and ran it through a software flanger. I added the drone samples from my collaboration with Igneous Flame and from my mixter great blue heron sample.
Then I added Tru Ski's vocal.
Other Notes
Here the artistic choice for me is whether the vocal adds to or subtracts from the effect. I love the vocal track, but it is not a fit with the remainder of the piece. Yet I decided to keep the effect, because the "it's still music" acquires a double meaning in the setting of this song.
Soundtransit.nl is a great source of attribution CC samples in a diverse array of sounds.
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