Ambient, Experimental, Electronica APOB (aka Lolo Lolo)
Lolo - Leaving [disquiet0187-threestrands]

Disquiet Junto Project 0187: Three Strands
Shift between three renditions of the same melody.

For this project I sat down and played a very simple melody. I committed to using whatever I played first time through, no metronome, arbitrary length, with no tweaks or edits. I inadvertently stretched the MIDI recording instead of looping it. The next two tracks suffered similarly. I liked the result so I kept things as they fell.

For the first instrument I used a subdued piano sound, second instrument is a vibraphone slowed attack, overdriven filter and delay, third instrument is another sombre sounding piano with an added fifth. All sounds are modified Ominisphere patches selected more or less at random.

Project description:

Step 1: Choose a simple melody/song/rhythm of your own creation, or that is in the public domain (or that is available thanks to an appropriate Creative Commons license).

Step 2: Record yourself performing the melody/song/rhythm from Step 1 three times, each time with a different instrument or set of instruments. Each of the three resulting tracks should be the same length, at least a full minute. (A single track can be a concatenation of multiple copies of the same recording of the segment — you don’t have to play it straight through for the full minute.)

Step 3: Make a new recording of the three tracks playing simultaneously. The only thing you can do throughout is shift between the tracks, playing either one of them, two of them, or all three of them at the same time. You can shift every few bars, or at a granular level, or anywhere in between — either with a concerted rhythmic purpose, or at random. The decisions you make about these shifts constitute the core compositional decisions you’ll make for this project.