West of Hades is a random-inspired experimental electronic composition using various timed rhythms and analogue-modeled, ring-modulated random electronic tonalities. The overall feel is one of musical pulses and interacting rhythms to create modes of anxiousness and pending anticipation. The Synfactory 1.15 software synthesizer provided the raw electronic tones for the work. A random signal was patched into the FM inputs of two sinewave generators. These sinewaves were then ring-modulated and the output fed into a short stereo delay function. The random signal frequency was clocked at 6,720 Hz. Seven 5-minute sequences were recorded using different frequency settings of the individual sinewave oscillators, but all using the same random pulse frequency setting of 6,720 Hz. It was decided to use short selections from the recorded sequences, and to build up segments using a rhythm track as a foundation. A click track of 75 bpm using a 909 snare provided the metronome foundation. An ambient sinewave combination selection was looped along the 75 bpm snare track. To this, two more ring-modulated selections alternated with this track. Added to this an additional two ring-modulated sequences alternated providing an eerie "fill" texture. A final surreal slow-speed ring-modulated sequence looped at particular points using the position of the other ring-modulated sequences as geometric reference points. An additional percussive rhythm track cuts in and out at selected points along the timeline. An additional rhythm track also cuts in and out manually. This rhythm track has a very short snap stereo delay applied. This first session was then mixed down to create the first sub-master. All the atonal electronic tones created one mix. Three separate rhythm mixes create the complex composite - fading in and out as the music pulsates within the 75 bpm tempo structure. A track of upper arpeggiated ringing tones was created on the Korg R3 synthesizer and precisely timed to fit the rhythm components. This track provided an analogue-like bass-line to the work. The result is a strange and highly-percussive electronic random composition, using random ring-modulated sequences and bizarre random-like rhythm elements to create a tense and energetic experimental music track, working on the sub-conscious levels to invoke attention and creative stimulation with almost human-like random performance elements. This piece has a rhythmic life of its own. The visuals were a combination of electronically-modulated geometric and striped forms with visual snow/noise and heater lighting. Superimposed over the top of this were coloured light streaks created from the heater lighting with a geometrically-modified flashing striped pattern keyed over this background layer, forming a multi-coloured and psychedelic visual composite. The abstract visuals were created to complement the abstract electronic tonalities. The result is an eerie electronic exploration set to truncated rhythms, with equally bizarre visual contortions, pulsating with an electronic interaction of their own.
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Meditation S Tby JeffreyPlaide541 views
great use of moire and interference patterns... keep making these!
VJFranzK 7 months ago
cool
adric137 10 months ago
very nice track
keesvangelis 1 year ago