Another track for the course I'm doing right now. The assignment was to generate sound then create different "rooms"

1. Started by recording on 1 track of a 4-track cassette (around 20 min recorded at normal speed): radio jam through walkman speakers, short bit of tape scratching, then jammed on Rhodes for the rest of the tape. All the keys you hear are backwards Rhodes going through a Whammy pedal.

2. Transferred from 4-track to DAW 5 times: normal speed, slowest speed, fastest speed, reverse, and 1 transfer playing with stereo aux effects and varispeed.

3. Recorded 2 tracks running takes through guitar pedals: 1 through a Whammy pedal (using the reverse tape track) and 1 with an extreme fuzz (using the slow tape track) that has a tremolo switch which made the frantic footsteps in Room 1.

4. Went through as much of all that as I could (it’s around 20 min or more for each track, totalling 7 tracks) cutting out the cool parts.

5. Organized the sounds into the 2 rooms and an outdoor scene: Diverge, Converge, and Emerge.

6. Chopped up sounds and arranged the room structures. Room 2 parts are really short.

When I was a teenager I used to make "music" using a program that was for creating alert sounds. Similar to what DL was using. I'd sample things on cassette and record them onto the computer, using half speed to get the most recording time. This was a trippy full-circle moment, getting back to how I started making music and using my ears instead of the grid to place sound on sound.

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