My beat-making abilities are just about zilch. I used a Luminth to create a long track of varied sounds (which is like digital jamming), then picked two percussion sections. These were down-pitched, double-tracked, beefed up with reverb, eq and moved around until they “fitted” the section of the ambient track that I’d selected. Very muddy beats – I’ve been listening to Demdike Stare…
I think it sounds better on phones.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0204: Under Beat
Add a foundational rhythm to an ambient foreground.
This week’s project is a complement to last week’s — but you can do this week’s project without having done, or even been aware of, last week’s. Last week we added a foreground to an underlying beat. This week we’re adding an underlying beat to a foreground.
Step 1: Listen to and download the track “Beacon, For Marissa” by Toaster:
https://soundcloud.com/toaster-1/beacon-for-marissa
Step 2: You’ll be adding a foundational, underlying rhythm — a beat, that is — to the track. The original is quite long, at over 17 minutes. You can certainly utilize the full piece, but it’s recommended that you select a segment of between 2 to 4 minutes.
Step 3: Please create a new track by adding a beat to the source audio from Step 2. (Do not change the source audio, other than perhaps fading in and out at the start and end, though you can use it as raw material for whatever beat you choose to add.)
More on this 204th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Add a foundational rhythm to an ambient foreground”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/11/26/disquiet0204-underbeat/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
