Embrace me, Arunachala
Jul 24, 2020, 10:42 AM
Ashram bells reimagined by Mark Taylor.
"As always with C&M projects, I did a lot of background reading into the social and cultural context of the original field recording before beginning to re-imagine it. I won't explain the significance of Arunachala...those who are interested can easily research it!
"The piece itself was created entirely within the confines of KONTAKT 6 sampler using SONAR X3 as my DAW.
"The opening washes of sound are entirely taken from the original recording - 3 separate instances woven together after being pulled 'kicking and screaming' through some granular synthesis / sampling techniques.
"The bell loop that fades in at around the 2 minute mark is also 100% from the field recording - various short audio snippets were cut out, processed and then put back together using Kontakt.
"Also in my reimagined version you can hear:
1) A gentle acoustic and electric guitar loop
2) A mysterious female vocal line or two - all reversed and swamped with reverb / delay.
3) Improvised Rhodes Piano
4) Tabla and Tampura.
5) A rhythmic synth loop.
"As always with C&M projects, I did a lot of background reading into the social and cultural context of the original field recording before beginning to re-imagine it. I won't explain the significance of Arunachala...those who are interested can easily research it!
"The piece itself was created entirely within the confines of KONTAKT 6 sampler using SONAR X3 as my DAW.
"The opening washes of sound are entirely taken from the original recording - 3 separate instances woven together after being pulled 'kicking and screaming' through some granular synthesis / sampling techniques.
"The bell loop that fades in at around the 2 minute mark is also 100% from the field recording - various short audio snippets were cut out, processed and then put back together using Kontakt.
"Also in my reimagined version you can hear:
1) A gentle acoustic and electric guitar loop
2) A mysterious female vocal line or two - all reversed and swamped with reverb / delay.
3) Improvised Rhodes Piano
4) Tabla and Tampura.
5) A rhythmic synth loop.