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Song freely downloadable from the facebook page of the Minotaur Project:...
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Song freely downloadable from the facebook page of the Minotaur Project:
http://www.facebo... (click on the BandPage application on the left).
The story of this video is that Cobus Potgieter, who first gave me the idea to make videos of my songs came out with a "songwriting challenge" (sort of...), in which he proposed his drum-only tracks to be used to create a new, original song. I made a song for that (Synthetic Minotaur), and when I saw how well it was recieved, I decided to make two more, this is the last one of them.
Without writing too much I'd like to add a personal note to the song: I chose this track because of the dynamics. I started two times recording ideas on the drums, now I have about 4 different half-empty projects files with ideas thrown into the trashcan. I thought about this song almost 24/7 in the last two weeks, even started to plan it before Planet Unrealm. It was probably the most difficult track to date I have composed on, mainly because the choruses are not the top parts of the song. It was amazing planning something like this.
So, writing was about three complete days (if we count only the useful parts), filming and cutting the video was one another. I managed to move to a new (much bigger) flat during the process, hence the new spot for the studio.
The original song was 30 seconds to Mars' Vox Populi.
The subject of my song is (sort of) an answer to Vox Populi. The title (Reverse Engineering) is quite obvious, but the appearance of Kilgore Trout (actually Kurt Vonnegut) is a bit of irony. Ever since I started composing I stood against any kind of "call to arms", if there's someting I'm against it's killing other people and the perfectionism behind the instruments which makes this "job" easier. Kurt Vonnegut had seen the war, the devastation of Dresden, and after that (as well as my family members of the same age who saw the war) he changed. I'm not surprised by that. He was one of those who protested against any kind of war in his books with a humour that will accompany me to the rest of my life. I'm grateful for that. I learned a lot from him.
Something before any flame-wars: I recorded the song partially before recording the video, which means what you see when I play is not exactly what you hear. Although this time I just corrected the few mistakes I made, so on the bass front what you see is 99% of what you hear :) Yeah, I recorded the bass twice for this song.
Technical data on Reverse Engineering:
Tuning for guitar is Db Gb Cb Fb Ab Db, for bass it's standard BEAD.
On bass I proudly used once again my Prolude bass head (BHV450L), about 30% of Tech21's Sans Amp, Aphex Bass Exciter, my newly-bought Warwick Thumb 2011 SE with MEC electronics, new Rotosound Swing66 strings, and planet waves cables. No software sound modifications - the Prolude head (together with the Warwick) does the trick.
Seriously, the two things together are fascinating. The thumb is probably the best instrument I've ever touched, the Prolude gives the transparency that I fell in love with it the first time I heard the sound.
On guitar: my good old ART ECC unit, and a 4x12 cabinet modeling as usual.
On drums I added some reverb on the middle, I filtered the frequency of the cymbals, but generally not much.
ProTools for mixing and mastering, Sonar for the recording session.
I'd like to say a BIG THANK YOU for the support from
PROLUDE AMPLIFICATION
http://www.prolud...
for making the amp that brings the sound I always wanted to hear.
Check out the facebook profile of Minotaur Project for more songs:
http://www.facebo...
I owe a thanks BIG time to
SASHA LASKOWSKY-ZIGUILINSKY
http://neopren.tu...
for his drawing "Kilgore Trout"
and also I'd like to say an ENORMOUS THANKS to
COBUS POTGIETER
http://www.cobusp...
youtube.com/deedlebag
for the inspiration and the support he gave.
Personal notes to Cobus:
Well, this story ends here as I promised. Now I return to my work, but I have to say it was fun to (kind of) working with you. I'd like to thank you once again for the idea and the posts, I'm glad you liked the songs. It was a great challenge, helped to twist my way of composing, made me think about music and dynamics twice as much as I normally do, and gave me a couple of sleepless nights, but I think it has really worth it :D
I wish you all the best, have fun at the DW centre, and don't forget to appreciate the practice room you recieved! :D And if you by any chance need someone to compose for you, well... I'd be more than happy to help.
Take care!
Matt
Quotes:
When I'll have proper net-connection, I'll make the subtitles and the list of quotes (in about a week).
The guy at the end (Tamás Mester) says "I think it will be made for the ones that will understand it, won't it?" in Hungarian.
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