Barrio Drop

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Saronni

I’ve had the week off from work so I’ve been able to spend some late nights in the studio. This piece was recorded and produced in only two sessions – long ones. I put aside my usual spastic bass playing and used a different left hand muting technique making for a more earthy or woody tone. I wish I could say I was even close to having a vintage synth collection such as John Keston does but I’m not even close. In this track I’m mainly using Analog Factory. All of the drum sounds were sampled and then programed with the exception of my skillfully played shaker! Barrio Drop is just a working title for now.

Prophesser #5

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Saronni

I’m not going to mention software or instruments that I’ve used. I will mention that one of my main artistic functions has been the roll of a bass player since age 11. In this case the bass guitar has been silenced. This is not the first time I’ve produced music without the use of my reliable four stringed chum but maybe the first time I’ve used a foreign instrument as the key writing tool, and may very well be a catalyst for my fourth full length release as ten72. This track has the working title of Prophesser #5.

Prophesser #5

Water Color Dream

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Saronni

wcd
I’m back from the audio dead with a little mini track from my forthcoming ten72 release Bicycle Family due out in March on Unearthed Music.

Water Color Dream is an escape from the rest of the album. I’ve veered away from my spastic futuristic jazz fusion sound on this one and relaxed a bit. Enjoy the juicy frequencies!

Water Color Dream

May 11th

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Saronni

The other night I was fretting about the fact that I had not picked up my bass guitar in two weeks because of my insanely busy schedule. I suddenly felt the urge to play after a long Lamaze class on Monday night. I was immediately back into the world of music again. I ended up creating this little heavy-hearted song. Why not post it!?

May 11th

Tone Matrix Composition

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Saronni

I recently stumbled upon a Flash instrument called Tone Matrix created by Andre Michelle. This is a slick little sine wave synthesizer triggered by a simple sixteen step sequencer. After goofing around with it for a half hour I decided to record some of what I was doing. So, here is a little ditty called “Faded Diary” inspired by Tone Matrix. The main morphing pattern in this composition is the piece that I recorded from my Tone Matrix session. The rest is an assemblage of synth, fretless bass guitar, and lots of little programmed bits. Check out Audio Tool too. Fun Stuff!

Faded Diary

Octave Pedal Bass Harmonics

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Saronni

I don’t really have much to explain about this recording. I was trying to get some dirty warbled sounds by playing my bass through an octave pedal. This is an example of harmonics using just the single lower octave setting. The result is a really fun nasally percussive sound. Perhaps this could be the catalyst for a new Keston and Westdal piece.

Octave Pedal Bass Harmonics

Testing My Little HD Friend

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Saronni

Santa brought me a wonderful little Kodak Zi6 HD video camera this year. I spent a couple hours on a meditative down tempo track just to inspire me to create a short film. I have no name for the young audio piece but I do have a fragment of it to share. I was experimenting with the macro setting and got some nice lens flare action.

Meditation Station (QuickTime Video 11.2mb)

Pigs on Horses

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Saronni

The Mississippi River is where my mates and I like to retreat to for fun and mischief. The other day
I was poorly documenting John Keston making some field recordings of a passing rowing team with my cell phone camera. I took the audio from the footage and made a little ambient piece using loads of processing. If I explained the treatment that I used on this short little low bit number I would have to write a book. So I’ll keep it short. I’m also posting the video so you can catch a glimpse of our late afternoon shenanigans. Now do you understand how I got the title for this ditty?

Pigs on Horses

ten72 Segue Track Preview

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Saronni

This is only my second post on Audio Cookbook as I’ve been busy getting married in the last couple of months. Anyway, I’ve had more time to work on sounds and music (the organization of sound) and so I thought I would share a short segue tune that I’ve decided to include in my upcoming ten72 release Bicycle Family. The song sounds a bit like two other shorts that I’ve produced and helped produce. One is Baby Teeth from the ten72 release Flavour Country and Aerosol Eighty from the Keston and Westdal release One Day to Save All Life. This Short track has a working tittle of Teity which is my own alternate spelling of tidy. The programing is a mix of shorty little tidy samples mixed in with slick classic TR808 drum sounds. I played a really far out jazzy guitar melody over the top and it seemed out of place so I destroyed it with loads of filtering, dubby delay, and other fun tricks. The result is a nice contrast to the tidy bits. It flows in and out of the tiny sound particles like an electric stream.