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the pure silence of space


track: 39

instrument(s) used: arturia - the v collection

recorded: 20160201

duration: 11:05

type: pureambient



a single pass of the hands, played with the sem synth, was then copied to a second track, and assigned to the cs80 to provide a second "voice". the two voices were then mixed together to create the final piece, making this in essence, a live performance.

basically, I sat down at my keyboard, and invented a piece of music that lasted for eleven minutes and five seconds, I just played it through as if I knew how it went, and as it went along, I found that I did know how it went!

once completed, I simply make a copy of the MIDI keystrokes and dropped it into a second track, so I could drive a second synth voice - and by chance, I happened to pick voices from the same sound designer, in this case - G. Darcey (aka "GTD"). I really like the ambient, ethereal nature of his sounds - one designed for the sem, the other, for the cs80 - but still, in a very clearly identifiable "GTD" style.

the chord sequence is just whatever tickled my fancy, just before the performance, I invented a strange dissonant chord, that I decided I would add to the improvised composition, so near the end of the take, I suddenly jumped up to this very, very odd chord - and held it for a long, long time - eventually reverting to the original theme, and bringing the piece to hopefully, a pretty ambient, melodic ending.

I really enjoyed using these two extremely high quality synthesizers from arturia's "v collection" - one of the best quality sets of synths available. and this track only involves two of them - there is a lot more to come from the "v collection" which contains something like 13 different instruments including a drum machine.

I seem to be having a good run of playing pieces live on the keyboard, and having them come out as whole entities, and this piece is another one in that vein - it's how I felt, on february 1st, 2016.

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from music for pcs: komplete synths + arturia synths - an eternal album, released March 17, 2014
dave stafford: arturia v collection:

track 1: arturia sem
track 2: arturia cs80


voices used:

track 1: arturia sem - GTD - "winter solstice"
track 2: arturia cs80 - GTD - "lonelypad"

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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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