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Solar Tone Poem |
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Spiral Galaxy Collision
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2004 Spiral Galaxy Collision |
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"An epic journey in sound and self. The grand canyon of (experi)mental electronic prog jazz." -djfisk
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The initial inspiration for "Solar Tone Poem" came when I stumbled across some "Solar Sounds" here: http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html
I immediately knew I had to use them in a track. After some work in Absynth and some effects work, it was off to a good start. Van suggested that we follow a loose theme of sun and earth sounds -- and so it began. Not only that, we decided to make it a drum'n'bass-style tune in 7/4.
Over the next several months, I recorded a wide range of sounds to convey the Earth portion of the theme, including a hot tub, various parts and tools in my garage, airplanes, traffic, cafe sounds, and some rubber tubes being hit with a bolt. Some of these sounds were used as-is, others filtered, sampled, and run through various effects.
I managed to get my hands on some cassette recordings of some of my mother's cello recitals, one of which has been sampled here (this particular recording was made in 1976). Also sampled are some sand dunes sounds -- sand dunes make sound as wind blows across the grains of sand.
Van's innovative guitar work really took "Solar Tone Poem" to the next level -- he used a variety of objects to make unearthly guitar sounds, including a jellifish (a special type of pick), utility knife, USB cable, lighter, rings, picks, his ebow (with a dying battery), and his glasses. Van also wrote the bass and keyboard parts during the "swing" section toward the end.
-mux
Thanks to Alexander Kosovichev and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) for the Solar Sounds.
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