Horns and bells, Alexandria
May 07, 2023, 08:01 PM
"The cafe in the source field recording is warm and complicated and full of character. The car horns and conversations and everything else that sticks out are somehow woven together. I got to thinking about convolution reverb, a new-ish addition to the workstation I use that allows the acoustics of a space to be reverse engineered. “Horns and Bells, Alexandria” is the introduction and integration of non-real sounds to the cafe using that technique.
"I played short melodies using the software version of the KORG M1 digital synthesizer, abstracted them into shorter snippets to mimic words, beeps, snaps, clangs, and other tones using Ableton’s Granulator II, and then passed them all through a very non-standard approximation of a convolution reverb based on a less eventful section of the source recording. It was a challenge and lots of fun - I like the way such discrete sounds can exist together. "
Ahwa Downtown Coffeehouse reimagined by Nicolo Scolieri.
"I played short melodies using the software version of the KORG M1 digital synthesizer, abstracted them into shorter snippets to mimic words, beeps, snaps, clangs, and other tones using Ableton’s Granulator II, and then passed them all through a very non-standard approximation of a convolution reverb based on a less eventful section of the source recording. It was a challenge and lots of fun - I like the way such discrete sounds can exist together. "
Ahwa Downtown Coffeehouse reimagined by Nicolo Scolieri.