I’ve been using a plugin called Crazy Ivan quite a bit lately, so I thought I’d feature it. I have no idea how it works, but depending on selected/accidental/guesswork settings it has a profound effect on pitch, making it rise and fall, and adds strange phasing effects, especially when you misuse it like I do.
I created a track out of samples from a couple of things I’m working on, then Crazy Ivan’d the whole thing – twice, with different settings. The only downside is that it flattens out the stereo separation, so I re-widened it, which alters the effect very slightly.
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The Assignment: Compose a piece of music in which the material processed is secondary to the processing.
Project Steps:
Step 1: Consider the following. New music can often involve flipping a perceived hierarchy: between rhythm and melody, between harmonic and melodic development, and between background and foreground, for example. This project involves flipping another perceived hierarchy: between the effect employed and the source audio on which it is employed (for example, between a flanger and a rhythm guitar line, or a gate and a drum kit, or between a filter and a complex waveform).
Step 2: Create an original piece of music in which the effect is the prominent thing heard throughout, while the source audio changes frequently between varied materials. The compositional goal is that the piece still hangs together as a considered whole unto itself.
Discussion at http://llllllll.co/t/foreground-effect-disquiet-junto-project-0241/4134
More on this 241st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music in which the material processed is secondary to the processing” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0241/
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