Day 134 / Yesterdays Monome Fodder

Yesterday I made the mistake of over-recording our jam with the monome.  We used as our sample a song I composed for my music box on Day 110.  I basically pressed record and my buddy Jeff and I went to town on the monome.  Two hours later I had a lot to sift through.  So for todays creative thing I went through and selected a few highlights from the jam.

 

 

I tried to make a song out of it but I realized that there was just too much to go through so all I really got accomplished was a basic cutdown.  I tried adding beats to it but nothing seemed to complement it for very long and I kind of liked just hearing the music box solo.
 
It’s pretty chopped sounding because it’s condensing an hour or so into a couple minutes.  We traveled far and stopped in some very different places.

 

 

My favorite part is the second half.  I was messing around with what’s called “inner loops”.  MLR has a function where if you press two buttons in the same row consecutively it will loop only that span of the audio file.  Also, if you press the last button in a row and then the first button you get a very short loop of just the first button’s sound repeating.  It may sound confusing but you’ll hear it right away as a very different sound. It reminds me of a Phillip Glass or Steve Reich song.

 

 

Anyways, I hope you enjoy!

 

 

 

Comments

5 responses to “Day 134 / Yesterdays Monome Fodder”

  1. Filip Avatar
    Filip

    Really like this blog and all the monome stuff!
    You should film how you use your monome, would be very interesting!

    Cheers

  2. rabbitearsmotel Avatar

    +1 on a monome vid.

  3. Bite Avatar
    Bite

    Magic sound…

  4. The B-Roll Avatar
    The B-Roll

    Thanks guys! Yeah, I should do more monome videos. On this night it was really a long recording session. If I were to videotape any part, it would be the Phillip Glass-y part. But at the time I was too tired to get the stuff together. Next time. There’s a thread on the monome forums listing everyones top 5 apps. Many of them I have never used so I may be testing them out for some creative things.

  5. Andie Avatar
    Andie

    yeah! love it – very minimal