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the dark passenger (stafford)

duration: 3:15

tempo: 66 bpm

record date: 20130519

instruments:

1 WIND1
2 ARTIC
3 Waterphone11
4 GtrBond13
5 TWELVEST
6 CRSHCYM1
7 SYNENSM2
8 SYNBASS1

back now to the realms of pure sonic experimentation: just set up a very strange instrument, start sequencing, and see where you go…

white noise is a big part of this piece, as represented by the first three elements, “wind”, the badly spelled “artic” (apologies) and the lovely, lovely “waterphone”. between these three, you can produce a lot of lovely atmosphere, and I use them heavily throughout to try and do just that…so the piece ends up like an odd movie soundtrack, about folk trapped out in the arctic, the wind howls intermittently, the music moving along in between…

after a while, the “bond guitar” and the “twelve string” start to play some lovely, lovely duets in high-speed harmony, while the syn bass climbs along behind them in a stately way; a brief, minor key, sinister moment arrives, the rhythm slows – the melody is re-iterated just by the percussion – and the journey is over.

I should note here, the use of “crshcym1” as a stick sound – throughout this series, I’ve often taken a single cymbal, and by adjusting the pitch, within one piece, I make it sound like three different percussion instruments (instead of one). so at highest pitches, you get a stick like or rim shot like sound (as you hear at the very end of this piece) in midrange pitches, you get a crash cymbal (no surprises there) and at low pitches…you get a beautiful, slowed down gong. three in one…it works beautifully, and you would never know it was all one lonely sample doing all that!

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from music for apps: fairlight pro - an eternal album, track released January 17, 2013
dave stafford: fairlight pro 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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