I have come close to finishing a track that I have been working on occasionally since September, tentatively titled Blitzen Machine after an ACB entry that contains a few bars of the original concept. What’s nice for me about exposing some of my techniques here is that afterward I have a resource to help me remember them. I have tons of archival recordings with sounds on them that I have little recollection of the process involved in making them. Perhaps another function of this blog can be to remind me what I did to make those sounds. Here’s an excerpt from Blitzen Machine that contains a little bit of the melody.
Blitzen Machine Excerpt
I have fallen completely in love with the sound that starts on top of a beat at about 0:15. How did you create that piece of brilliance?
Thanks, Zac. There’s actually a path you can follow right here on ACB. It all started with an entry from September 1, 2008 called Robot Music. That technique led to Robot Conspiracy followed by Blitzen Machine five days later. Three months later I revisited the piece and wrote this entry.