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 Back To Ampersand Index PAGE 17 - Dead Pixels (Track 11) - This track was largely an experiment in writing music different ways. The guitar parts were all written normally, the piano and synth/flute melodies were written on paper without an instrument during downtime at one of my "day gigs," and the middle orchestral section was the first time I had tried writing something entirely in the computer using all sample libraries. Here is a November 10, 2004 version of the track. With what I had written on paper, and the guitar already recorded, I was able to put what you hear here together in two or three hours: deadpixels_archive1.mp3 The beginning of the final version of the piece starts with a recording of me typing at my computer keyboard, which I ran through the Line 6 DL4 delay pedal and tried to make sound like rain: deadpixels_typing1.mp3. The composition is structured in three sections. The first section, which is mainly guitar with Minimoog/flute playing melody over it is in 3/4, the second section (beginning at 2:05) is an orchestral arrangement over a bass ostinato that is in 5/4, and the third section (beginning at 2:47) is where the drums appear and the right hand of the piano begins playing the previous bass ostinato figure, also in 5/4. The guitar that comes in at 0:47 is the melody of The Tundra. The strings that come in at 0:48 are actually one sound, one instance of the Mellotron M300 Strings, as opposed to the string quartet sound used for the rest of the album, (which was created with the Chamberlin 3 Violins and Cello sounds). The voice recordings in the orchestral section are the same ones used in November Frontlines. Back To Index |