No work today!  I spent my saturday with the family.  Jenny had some relatives who were visiting from Wisconson so we spent most of the day with them at the beach.  That was nice.  It was something that Jenny and I have been needing for a while now.  Plus, June was loving it as well.  There’s something special about seeing your baby enjoying herself in the sand at the beach with the waves crashing in behind her.  It was just nice to spend most of the day outdoors.

This evening I got to play in the studio with my buddy Chris.  We had no plans as to what we would create so I proposed we mess around with some of the recordings I have collected on this blog.  So we rounded up the sounds and began editing away.  We were working in the clip mode of Ableton live doing random things with the recordings until about 1:30 am then at the end I quickly recorded it over to the Arrangement mode and arranged it into a short song.  Click play below to hear what we came up with.

A brief description of how we used the sounds:

-The main beat is the sound of my creaking wood floors from Day 011

-Zoom Lee adds the African Drum Day 018

-The oil derrick from yesterday adds an ambient undertone

-At one point the sound of a Slinky from Day 034 comes in and adds to the percussion

-Finally, I added the sound of my interview with The Tulip Man from Day 014

 
Chris added a few original sounds including the shaker beat which came from reason and a little from my modular which ended up as a melodic complement to the beat.
 

I can see a lot of potential in this idea and I think in the future I will do more of these.  I could have gone so many different directions with the audio and I think it might be a fun idea to do a song for each of the interviews I’ve done with people.

Enjoy.