9th
My Second Assignment. Three loops made out of a sample of a clicking sound repeated four times. In the audio above, you’ll hear the four clicks, silence, the first loop, silence, the second loop, silence, and finally the third loop.
The click was created by speeding up dancing queen until there was nothing but a single noise left for the entire song. The song was played through four times.
Using that basic building block, I made three loops, each about 20 seconds long, in the software program, Radial.
The first loop was set to 60 bpm. The click was put through a high pass filter for the basic beat. A second, lower click is added to hit every other beat. Then the regular click is slowed down, so it hits twice on every fourth beat. Finally, a click sent through the chamber reverb begins to hit at random.
The second loop is built around 137 bpm, disco heaven. A deep, full click created using a low pass filter sets the basic beat. A second lower click is added, but it goes at nearly triple the speed. A slightly filtered click is set off rhythm, adding some much need syncopation to the mix. Finally a high pass filtered click, moving extremely fast and modulated by the chamber reverb effect, gives the loop an extra shimmer. Finally, the off-kilter channel’s filter is adjusted to give the track some movement.
The final loop enters with all of the effects added. It, too, is at the ‘disco heaven’ bpm. The slowed down double click from the first loop now has chamber reverb added to it. Also, the shimmering high clicks from the second loop return. The low steady beat goes slightly faster than the norm now, while a second beat, going at the same rate, has it’s filter altered as the track moves forward. Near the end, feedback is added to the reverb effect, and the system heads toward overload, before the feedback is cut-off, and the loop returns to normal.
