Trip-in guts
Aug 29, 2022, 01:12 PM
"Im not sure if it counts as a source of inspiration or narrative, or at least maybe not one that comes voluntarily but unconsciously, nevertheless I made this track while I was ill with a stomach infection.
"Technically, in this piece I began by extracting the different musical elements of the music in a frequency basis with Rip X, an A.I. software normally used by DJs to extract STEMS (the different instruments in which the song is composed), or vocals out of music tracks to make remixes. Then I listen to the extracted tracks and choose only one sample out of it, which was a plucked instrument that was difficult to hear at the beginning of the original sound because the other instruments were louder. After that I changed the pitch of the sample to make it higher, so that the melody could be more clear. Next I processed the sample with Arturia Pigments, a real-time granular effect plugin, tweaking it in different ways and then resample that into multiple takes in Ableton Live. Finally, I arranged those takes, and put some reverb, EQ, time stretch and pitch shifting on some of the tracks, and as a final touch I added the pitch shifted plucked instrument loop as a remain that worked as the source for everything else.
"Now that I hear it, i imagine that it could be the sound of my guts moving, twisting, bumping into each other."
Composition by Omar Soriano.
This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
"Technically, in this piece I began by extracting the different musical elements of the music in a frequency basis with Rip X, an A.I. software normally used by DJs to extract STEMS (the different instruments in which the song is composed), or vocals out of music tracks to make remixes. Then I listen to the extracted tracks and choose only one sample out of it, which was a plucked instrument that was difficult to hear at the beginning of the original sound because the other instruments were louder. After that I changed the pitch of the sample to make it higher, so that the melody could be more clear. Next I processed the sample with Arturia Pigments, a real-time granular effect plugin, tweaking it in different ways and then resample that into multiple takes in Ableton Live. Finally, I arranged those takes, and put some reverb, EQ, time stretch and pitch shifting on some of the tracks, and as a final touch I added the pitch shifted plucked instrument loop as a remain that worked as the source for everything else.
"Now that I hear it, i imagine that it could be the sound of my guts moving, twisting, bumping into each other."
Composition by Omar Soriano.
This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds