I seem to record this song whenever the family travels out of town without me.
local news predicts collapsing horizons
Done with stretched and effected Guzheng

Here's an ambient, Philip Glass type experiment that I cooked up last sunday, using the 64bit version of Reaper and the 64bit version of Kontakt. The 64bit versions are a great boon for using large sample libraries.
In fact I started this experiment by sitting down and seeing how many large sample libraries I could load up.
Some samples came off the net, some are from the Native Instruments libraries, quite a few are from the excellent folks at Sonic Couture.

Then, as I am wont do, I dumped copious amounts of vst plugins onto the outputs of Kontakt.
Mostly Audio Damages plugins... but also lots of cool freeware VST plugins that I've scrounged from the net. Only the best, most stable plugins - which also have a unique sonic characteristic

One of the most useful functions in Reaper for my particular workflow is the 'Save Live Output to Disk'.
That way Reaper records everything that it spits out. Remember to uncheck the 'Save output only while playing or recording'.

This way I can start and stop playback in Reaper, yet still record the leftover maths that is in the various buffers. I really like hearing this debris of numbers that have to unfold themselves, especially since I can continue to mess with the plugins' settings and have some 'bull by the horns' kinda control over the outcome.

The result was 15 minutes of audio, which I cut down to the choicest bits and came up with 2min 44sec
doors, windows, roof and floors

So I sat down to do 'my version of a pop song', since Raz laid down the gauntlet. It went completely wrong for me.

I started by listening to radio in the car on my way home. Already here I should have seen it coming. Skip to the end.... I wound up feeling a bit nauseous, disliking the world and generally feeling a bit half-hearted/arsed.

So when I finally made it to my computer, I simply wound up doing a one take improvisation using my voice, my ukulele, and Gleetchlab 3. Which is a good thing too since it helped me feel a lot better about things.

Anyway, an incidental by product was this piece of ambient music, clocking in at a little over 15 min.
AnotherLongWaveGoodbye

This is why I love ableton! Feeling particularly happy last sunday I sat on the couch for two hours and messed around in ableton, mostly the arpeggiator in conjunction with analog - and still some reasonable interesting tune came out (at least cathing some kind of naive mood):

Arp Boy

No keyboard, no controllers, simply a laptop, ableton, headphones and some cozy mood. The funny drum beat is a loop from the ACE TONE FR-2L with the Rhumba setting. The boogie sample is from my own sampled "seventies disco vinyl" sample library. As another funny side note the analog setting is simply the default "no setting" setting. One more thing is that I turned quantisation OFF, trying to make it more groovy....and sloppy. I guess that also explains the badly arranged breaks...

Lately I have been thinking a bit on how "my version" of a pop song might sound. I think this little sketch is one of the stones in that pavement. How would "your version" of a pop song sound? (challenge, hep-hey!)

2 person sonic expriment. Only 1 instrument each. Myself on contra and Tobias Wiklund on trumpet. Recorded binaually with a couple DPA's and a Zoom H4... tastiest overdubs then thrown 'aleatorically' into protools. Best heard on headphones.
KUV-projekt

Just got the Native Instruments Komplete (which was on sale for owners of Kontakt). First thing to mess with - Absynth and it's lovely new granular reverb type efx.... Here's a bit of improvised, fretless danelectro going through it.
fretAbsynth

Last night Jonas forgot his bass at home and had to borrow one from our sister band Ampel (sister band=bands you share a rehearsal room with). After playing for about an hour we grew restless and tired and bored... not really a good sign when rehearsing ones own music. But anyway, Rasmus started messing about with a cheap toy microphone also found in Ampels equipment box.... and then suggested that we record a song using only other peoples equipment.
This is what we improvised with Ableton Live. SongWithAmpelsEquipment

If you want to hear the equipment played in a live setting you can go here on the 6th of sept. Though it will be the actual owners of the equipment that are playing on that occasion. If you do go, don't tell Ampel we borrowed their equipment.... we have yet to ask them =)

Faster Land But Slow Death

some sound to snack on

coastalHighLinesAndGrains

SandunesFrozen.mp3