I have been sampling extensively over the last couple of weeks. All sessions have been focused on tiny, small clicky sounds. All sounds start with a click – and I have been fascinated by how much you can do with them – and how they can shape/color the compositions. Feel free to check the following demo – using a variety of click sounds combined with vocals and synths. The clicks are primarily taken from a stop-watch, which I time-stretched and glitched heavily.
I made a great amount of demos lately for Tonehammer, but three of them stand out in a personal way to me.
The first demo was made with the “Bamblong”, which was a little tourist instrument we found in a store in Oakland. The instrument is a little bamboo type of Marimba, but we sampled the hell out of it and made it into a fascinatingly beautiful log-drum type of instrument.
The second demo was really a wild experiment. Essentially a few friends of mine and myself have been collecting … Human Gas Emission … sounds for over a year, which led to a crazy experiment. Essentially I wanted to check out if I could make an instrument out of the gas sounds by sorting them by pitch, velocity and so forth, hence the “Human Trumpet” was born. All chords, drones and solo synth sounds in this demo is made with the human trumpet.
It brings me great joy to present you with a recent coverage of my last GDC lecture. The lecture was about how to shape ones musical identity and the overall response has been really positive, which is great … since I hardly felt qualified to talk in depth about this topic – knowing I haven’t found my own musical identity yet. CDM (Create Digital Music) was kind enough to do an extensive analysis of my lecture, which is quite humbling, since I myself am a great fan of CDM. Click here if you want to read more about how I boiled a waterphone, make epic music, create my own instruments and generally approach the creative process.
A little demo I did with boom whackers, coke bottle, finger snaps, fuzz kit, wine glasses, rainstick, stopwatch, a didgeridoo and Francesca Genco (singer).
I just saw the most amazingly, crazy, intelligent, wonderful, brilliant, great video on the tube. It is stunning how much you can get out of so little …
I was recently featured in a great article about Adaptive Audio on Games Career Guide. The article covers a variety of subjects related to adaptive audio ranging from production proces, layering, sound design and aspects of my own production methodology: “micro-scoring“. Hope you will enjoy.
I have scored a variety of more personal tracks lately. The tracks are using fairly exotic- and many home made instruments. The majority of instruments are Propanium (MILLTONE), Kalimba, Hang Drum, Frendo (custom made instrument), Soda Cans, Ikea Glass Vase, Rainstick and percussion on an old rusty paint can. Hope you will enjoy this little journey with me. All the demos were made for www.tonehammer.com, which is a company I created with my dear, dear friend and master sound designer, Mike Peaslee.
Propanium Demo 1 (featuring Steven Tavaglione on Harmonica)
Propanium Demo 2
Kalimba Demo 1
Kalimba Demo 2
Frendo Demo 1: “Why Don’t You Want To Be My Frend!?”
