This song statred out as just a beat I was playing with. Then I added a bass line and that was all she wrote. The overdrive of the synth and the guitar adds to the hard edge and immediacy of the song. The words came last.
I told the gang over at Facebook that I would post something ‘unplugged’… so here it is: a song I wrote called ‘Little To Crazy’.
It’s about as raw as it’s gonna get. A mic in my office, a guy, a guitar and a beatbox. The closest thing to sitting in the room with me… ha, whatever.
This is a bit of experimental stuff… a mindscape that I created using the sounds within a single sample.
The sample I used was the sound of a toilet flushing. I used this because the sample contains a wide range and variety of sonic possibilities.
I used Ableton and the Simpler sample player there. Once the sample is loaded the fun begins. You can dissect the wave form into a whole bunch or parts, loop them, transpose them, modify and manipulate, play them from your keyboard, add filters and LFO’s… the options are endless it would seem.
Then you just put them together in a composition… my visual for this was the Praying Mantis.