This is a bit I made called “Fugue You”. Let us now define the “Fugue”. There are two definitions. First one musical, the second one psychiatric.
- In Music. a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn,subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
- In Psychiatry. a period during which a person suffers from loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase.
Either of these definitions seem appropriate. I thought the image above suited the musical concept the best. At least this is how I felt while performing it, with middle fingers everywhere.
There is a four note simple melody that was banging around my head from The New Deal song Navidrome. I reproduced this as best I could on the Volca Bass (at the very beginning), then just built crap on top of it. The final turned out to be 10 and some minutes (originally 12… I deleted some off the top before I was done).
Geek Notes (All are Korg products unless noted):
- Volca Bass does the 4 note bass melody at the beginning and throughout.
- Volca Beats carries the beat the whole time.
- Volca Keys is played live then eventually I give up and sequence it. It provides that Moog Modular mono sound that solo’s over top of the mess and finishes the song. For those of you scoring at home, Volca Keys has it’s own delay/reverb effect used heavily in this song.
- Kaossilator Pro is (once again) the master clock used for looping MicroKorg sounds (poorly) and provides some studio drums near the end that go out of timing for unexplainable reasons (so I fade them under the mess). I apologize for the stumbling around with the MicroKorg arpeggio near the front of the song. I need more arms and hands. This was looped (safely thankfully) into the Kaossilator then NEVER TOUCHED AGAIN. This, unfortunately, is how I work with the Kaossilator looper in my rig at this point. I need to figure this crap out a little better.
- MicroKorg provides some soloing and (as usual) bitchin’ arpeggios. There’s also some neat techno metal noise arpeggio on the MicroKorg that goes kling klang ping pong pang in there that I thought was cool.
- MiniKP (red box) provides reverb (setting 62) on most MicroKorg sounds.
- Tempo is a BPM of 80.
Let’s play the game, “see if you can hear Chad screw up in 10.5 minutes”.
“Did you hear it?”
“I HEARD IT!”
“All right Janet!”
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