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Creation: Seven Days That Made The World
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This is my first attempt at a true “concept” project. As I was working on the relaxation CD (see THM News, upcoming Cds) I came up with some chord progressions that kind of struck a nerve. Suddenly, the whole concept for doing a sonic representation of the creation of the world just hit me. Within about 2 days I had everything written out and ready to record. This was fastest that a project had come together for me.
From a technical standpoint the instrumentation is pretty straightforward, and similar from track to track. For the songs with drone under linings I used mostly analog snyth pads from the Matrix 1000. Some of the drones also have mixed in some midi soft snyth pads and sonic washes using one of the basses through the GT-10B. The “guitar” melodies and lines were done on The Tenor through the GT-10B using ‘guitar’ patches (presets on the GT that transpose the incoming signal up 1 octave). All of the piano parts are midi tracks played through Steinberg’s ‘The Grand SE’ Soft snyth. “Day 7” was particularly fun to pull together. It’s 1 stereo track of just midi piano that (hopefully) sounds like I’m actually playing it. (but, of course, I’m not)
This project is also a first for me in that it includes a voice over for every song. This is my first shot at engineering and producing something like this. For the narrative, I pulled a couple of different bible translations together to give it more of a conversational feel. My youngest daughter, Danae, did the readings and I think they turned out very nice. I was looking for that kind of ‘angelic’ quality and she nailed it. The idea was for it to sound like a young person talking about, and giving an account of, this ancient event as if they were there and had witnessed it first hand.
To hear audio samples from Creation: Seven Days That Made The World, click on a song title in the player below.
From a technical standpoint the instrumentation is pretty straightforward, and similar from track to track. For the songs with drone under linings I used mostly analog snyth pads from the Matrix 1000. Some of the drones also have mixed in some midi soft snyth pads and sonic washes using one of the basses through the GT-
This project is also a first for me in that it includes a voice over for every song. This is my first shot at engineering and producing something like this. For the narrative, I pulled a couple of different bible translations together to give it more of a conversational feel. My youngest daughter, Danae, did the readings and I think they turned out very nice. I was looking for that kind of ‘angelic’ quality and she nailed it. The idea was for it to sound like a young person talking about, and giving an account of, this ancient event as if they were there and had witnessed it first hand.
To hear audio samples from Creation: Seven Days That Made The World, click on a song title in the player below.
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