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the constant (stafford)

duration: 6:00

recorded: 20140301

type: active / ambient

"the constant" is a track that's been my constant companion for the last few weeks. I worked on it for a long, long time, and it began to reach a mature state after the first week or so, but then curiously, instead of just mixing it down and mastering it, I continued to work on it, for maybe 40 or 50 minutes each day, trying various sounds, adding and removing and changing parts, until the song had undergone quite a transformation.

finally truly happy with the way it sounds now, the song is named "the constant" because of the bass track, which originally played unaltered through the entire track - but, an edit sometime back, altered the bass during a small "bridge" section so the bass is no longer quite a constant - but it's there for MOST of the song :-)

various other sounds enter and leave, leave and enter, until we reach the big "wind down" where eventually the bass is left to it's self, and then, gradually deconstructed until it becomes nothing. I do like the way the track is active for the first few minutes, and then it goes quite ambient.

I also accidentally created some wonderful high pitched and reverse-sounding pieces of MIDI, which were designed with one voice and then moved to a different voice - and in some cases, with spectacular results, this is a technique that I often use - if I have a piece of MIDI that I particularly like, what would it sound like if I copy it to other instruments?

so a lot of painstaking work, and I don't know how many days on end I worked on this piece, but I really felt it was worth the extra effort - I hope you will agree.

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from music for apps: nanostudio - an eternal album, released March 17, 2013
dave stafford: nanostudio application

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dave stafford Stirling, UK

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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