I was hit by the worst back pain of my life on Sunday, and had to spend a few days horizontally. I saw it as an opportunity to get to know the #Polyend Tracker Mini a little better. And then the magic happened: This track materialised within 24 hours. As it's an unusually fast writing process for me, I decided to consider it finished and release it, hoping it will keep me away from coming back to ruin it at a later point.
The Polyend Tracker Mini is a magical little device that’s forcing me to approach music in a different way. Typically it uses very short samples in an almost multisampling context, but here I’ve pushed it to use longer voice samples from my ever-growing library of 70s TV commercial snippets that I’m preparing for my hauntology project.
The ‘Uh huh!’/’Cool clean taste’ bit is from a 1971 Certs commercial, and it’s deliciously mangled using the PT Mini’s granular engine. ‘Purely For Pleasure’, believe it or not, is taken from a 1971 Butterfinger commercial! The laugh you hear was from a CB radio transmission I captured over the holidays. The broken melody is just a Euclidean sequence I used to fill out the bar.
Anyway, it’s a fun little track that is a harbinger of weirder stuff to come. Stay tuned, space cadets!
New Album Release! 'Step Inside'
Read about it on my blog post which includes a link to Bandcamp.
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed creating it 🙂 ❤️
I'm implementing crate for reading (and later on writing) #polyend#tracker projects :-) Not proactively developed until I get my serial tool in shape tho. After I have that I might write a playback engine for the projects and a command-line player. For reverse engineering reverb and delay algorithms I'm going to use Bitwig Grid and then just compare sampled output until I get it right.
The utility would be e.g. to convert Polyend project to #Bitwig or #Ableton project and stuff like that but to do proper conversion you first need to have a playback engine for comparative testing even though those tools do no need to play anything.