WIP on a new song.
This is just the first half, which I think I’ve “finished”, and it’s somewhat self-contained… so this might be it.
Nerdy details:
I wrote the song partly using the experimental notebook that I (et al) have been building at work. Will share some screenshots eventually.
It started as a piano jam, and I found a little ostinato in 11/8 that I decided to build the rest of the song around. So I tracked the piano and drums first, and then just improvised everything else on top.
I’ve had a rented cello for the past month or so, and that features pretty heavily. I think cello pizz + BC + organ is how I’m gonna do basslines from now on.
I also have a rented flute, and while I recorded a bunch of it for this song, none of it made the cut (…yet, I guess).
Other instruments:
- the 100 year-old hand-me-down wind organ from a local church that now lives next to my piano
- lots of bass and soprano clarinet
- the french horn Schuyler just randomly gave me
- singing bowl
- one little tiny synth bit that you’ll never in a million years hear and go “that’s the synth”; the thing you think is the synth is actually the cello with a really tight high-feedback delay.
- I’ve pared my drum kit down to just the stuff that I really love. Kick, snare, floor tom, hat, ride, broken cymbal that works as a china, two crashes… and a tight stack of broken splash cymbals that sounds just like the $600 Meinl smack stack. Love it.
- my 6 year old loves these two tiny cymbals that, I think, were the hi-hat from a children’s drum set that I somehow wound up with? She put them on individual stands, one tight and one loose. Turns out, the tight one works as a triangle-esq “ting” sound.