By chance (always a favourite way for things to happen), I was working on just such a drone, ie developing complexity and then relinquishing it, when this dropped.
Based on a very old abandoned project using a recording of Also Sprach Zarathustra. Not sure what was done to it originally (alright, I can’t remember), this mix added some duplicated passages pitched down, stretched slightly and repositioned in order to create tonal contrasts.
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The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple.
Step 1: You may, yourself, be experienced recording drone music, or you may never have recorded any. You may not even be sure what drone music is, in which case read up a bit. Not matter your experience and familiarity, please give some thought as to what constitutes drone music.
Step 2: Now think about what makes a drone simple and what makes a drone complex.
Step 3: Now record a piece of drone music that begins simple, gets complex, and then gets simple again. And note: The simple drone at the end needn’t necessarily be the same sort of drone with which the piece opens.
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