I used a recording I made some years ago of water dripping into a large porcelain bowl. The single drip motif imitating the piano is an obvious anchor, treated to sound a little more percussive. The entire recording is compressed, re-stretched and reverbed, made to descend six semitones with a progressively stretched ending and replicated seven times at different pitches.
Then the recording was treated using The Mangle, and the result was replicated and – in one case reversed – and, er, dropped into several places in the mix, according more to whim than any sense of musicality, and certainly with NO intention of replicating the wonderfully disciplined and rhythmic structure of Terry Riley’s composition.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0342: In Sea
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in tribute to Terry Riley’s In C using only samples of water sounds.
Step 1: You’ll be recording a piece of music in tribute to Terry Riley’s In C. (If you’re unfamiliar, read up and listen.) Don’t use the actual composition. Consider aspects of it, and choose ways to emulate them, to extrapolate compositional ideas from them.
Step 2: Record a piece of music employing the decisions you made in Step 1. Only use samples of water sounds as your source audio. (Side note: collaborating with others is encouraged but not necessary.)
More on this 341st weekly Disquiet Junto project (In Sea / The Assignment: Record a piece of music in tribute to Terry Riley’s In C using only samples of water sounds) at:
https://disquiet.com/0342/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
