Recorded, mixed & mastered on 22 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.
Back when Johnson was the President of the USA, I had some building toys - an erector set and Lincoln Logs. My father being in the sheet metal trade was also probably an influence. Anyway, I probably just wanted a hammer, so with a bit of the industrial in mind I created this marching, pounding thing.
Tools used & process notes -
In VCV Rack 2 Pro I used Surge XT's Modern VCO & dBiz DaOsc, many native VCV and Surge XT modules, Bifaco Srping Reverb, Squinktronix Harmony & Apreggiator, a few of Hetrick's Phasor and Choas modules, Daniel Davies Sequel_8 sequencer, Sm@rTAZZ Studio's D-Octer & Alef's Bits Probably Not. Of course, Frozen Wasteland's Seriously Slow LFO & JW's Simple Clock is in there, too.
In Ableton Live 12 Suite, I imported my second take, editing from over 6 minutes to 3 and creating a second track with things I cut out. I stretched this and then ran it through a Joyo Uzi pedal. I stretched the result again. In Live, I also used kHz Dual Delay, Arturia's Delay Brigade (hello, Memory Man!), native Live devices, Audiomodern's Gatelab and some Max For Live devices - K-Devices Alter Echo, Osprey's ADT1 & Graham F's Aerosolizer.
Lots of compression and distortion here to go with that "boy who really wants to play with a hammer" feeling! It also came out with a sort of "Cold War Era" feel to me.
Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, USA - 10 Oct 2008
©2024 Jim Lemanowicz
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This original version of “The Erection Set” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0677: Jeux d’enfants. The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game.
More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/
More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/
