Fumifugium, Nes & Jitters: January 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009

Thursday 29th January 2009

Jack's Back is a Future Loss song that began life as a two minute sprint to the finish line, but then quickly ate itself in favour of becoming something more progressive. The rhythm guitar is now virtually absent, Brian has added lots of feedback and stickle-brick beats make an appearance during the ambient mid-section.

Using the close mic feeds from certain drums on the live kit, Logic was able to map a MIDI sequence that mirrored Stuart's playing exactly. I then used this information to trigger a series of Ultrabeat drum samplers, keeping the original timing while at the same time introducing electronic sounds to the mix.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Wednesday28th January 2008

A vocal extract from Bruised Pilgrim's Kinky Freidman Crime Club recording. The roaring backing vocal was perfected using a little-known studio technique called "hitting the singer in the head with glockenspiel mallets while the guitarist leaps on his back".

Friday, January 16, 2009

Thursday 15th January 2009

from	Andrew Gardiner
to		Andy Warmington
date		16 January 2009 03:45
subject		grey riff - part 1 - RAF1
mailed-by		gmail.com

('RAF' meaning "rough as f**k".)

Andy,

Well, here we are at the apex of the day. And here is the first part of Grey Riff, completely denuded and untreated. But there is a gasping cough of a structure now, where there once lay only a CPR failure. Already you can hear the impact of your improvised parts... and there are moments when they carry the song more than the Nameless sample does. Thus underlining my evangelically crazed maxim of this. being. a. guitar. based. album.

Perhaps such formatting of text suggests that it's time to go to bed.

Much to do on this still, but you can at least get the idea. There are three more sections: the Fugazi sample build up, the screaming noise bit, and the 70s experimental synth sample outro. It's my intention to take the existing sounds that are on the arrange page from two years ago, weave your guitar in around it all, then slowly pick apart the whole piece so you can't tell where the magpied bits end and our contributions begin.

Thoughts and comments encouraged as always,

Andrew.