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Fleshing Out The Structure
My next step for Didn’t Feel Safe was to flesh out the structure, using a common pop song structure we studied in Popular Music Theory this semester:
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Another Anthemic Track Is Born
This is the first of a series of posts describing a new track I’m creating both to fulfil the requirements of Assignment 3 for MUSC2653: Introduction to Digital Music Techniques at The University of Sydney, and to go on my first album I plan to release later this year.
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On The Seventh Day, I Rested
By the seventh day I had finished the work I had been doing, so on the seventh day I rested.
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On The Sixth Day, I Mixed and Mastered
On the last “day” working on the track, I mixed and mastered it on the monitor speakers in Studio 1030A at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
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On The Fifth Day, I Equalized
The main objective today was to apply equalisation on the kick drum and bass guitar to prevent their harmonics clashing with the higher instruments and side chain compression from the kick to the bass to prevent them clashing with each other.
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On The Fourth Day, I Layered My Instrumental Cake
One of the key compositional techniques I wanted to incorporate into Insecure Attachment was Dr Damian Barbeler’s concept of layer cake orchestration™ to add dimension to the sound without overwhelming the listener with complexity. It can be applied in multiple domains including time, volume, spectrum/frequency, pan position left/right, and spatially foreground/background.
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On The Third Day, I Added A Bass
My new track clearly needed a bass guitar, and today it got one. Here’s what that looks like:
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The Evolution of a New Musical Work
On the second day, I added more layers to the drums of my new musical work, some strings to represent the infinite potential of my infant self, and a dirty electric guitar to represent the impact of my mother. I also extended the B section to 64 bars with the thought of using flex tempo later to increase the tempo in that section in order to express my increasing infantile panic. (more…)
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The Genesis Of A New Musical Work
I have wanted for some time to compose a musical work which expresses in some way the rich panoply of unexpressed emotions that I feel towards my mother. The rage, panic, resentment, disappointment, sadness, grief, anger, terror, sympathy… and perhaps even love. I have had a few unsuccessful attempts in the past, but so far, this white whale has eluded me. (more…)
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Musique Concrète and Other Experimental And Electronic Music
In the subject Creative Music Technology at university last semester, I was asked to listen to a collection of experimental and electronic music to stimulate my creative imagination, and to write what I liked and didn’t like about it. Here’s my rather cynical take on the genre. (more…)