The Junto this week asked us to make music for an audience of one. My audience is Jacob Collier. It's a remix of a video he made explaining how his arrangement of "In The Bleak Midwinter" modulates through various keys to end up in G half-sharp major. That's the key midway between G and A-flat. It's the geekiest thing I've ever heard.
https://youtu.be/5vrhKI7JHQc?t=1005
I find the joy of Collier's explanation to be much more effecting than the arrangement itself. In general, while I like Collier's energy and enthusiasm for harmony, I find his actual music to be exhausting. It's too much information. So I guess this track is my way of requesting that Collier make music the way I like it: more repetitive, more groove-oriented, more hip-hop flavored.
BTW, in addition to the Jacob Collier samples and 808, I also used the same Mahavishnu Orchestra breaks from last week's Junto project: https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/vital-transformation-transformation-disquiet0379
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Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo credited to Andrew West:
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