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avalanche of emotions (stafford)
duration: 8:01
recorded: 20140108
type: active / ambient
a new piece for the new year, 2014, and this piece brings together the worlds of active and ambient very nicely - first of all, it's based on a unique concept: 17 consecutive hits on a ride cymbal, followed by 17 hits of drum silence; followed by 17 hits on a ride cymbal - this utterly minimalist backing continues for most of the song, except for the ending, where momentarily, in a very ambient way indeed, all hell breaks loose.
so - a piece based on 17, and after the drum part was set up, I first added the bass, using a whistling style patch, to give a sort of theremin-like effect, and then, I added a melody synthesizer, which I later edited down and interspersed with an ambient synth with a beautiful "no attack" voice named "prickly heat" for some reason - a really beautiful sounding patch, so the ambient part keeps the solo synth from getting too busy,
then, similarly to a hidden track on an album, this song has a hidden ambient reprise, so after 3 minutes of silence, you get to hear an alternative view of what the song is made up of - randomly set pieces of synth had been moved off to the side during work, and instead of deleting them as I normally would, I attempted to arrange them into a small, quiet piece of ambient music which would mirror the larger piece - so you get a synths-only ambient reprise of the song at the end.
I really enjoyed working on this track, I spent a couple of weeks tinkering with it and I think it was well worth the time - a worthy addition to the eternal album :-)
ambient loop guitarist dave stafford performed on stage with robert fripp and the orchestra of crafty guitarists in early
2009, and again with robert fripp and the symphony of crafty guitarists in 2015, and has worked with ambient music and looping for over twenty years. stafford has a rich back catalogue of ambient and loop music, +rock, prog or acoustic crafty guitar music: www.pureambient.com...more
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