BlueDeceiver - A Kind Of Sky II (5:11, 44.1KHz, 128kbps, 4.8MB)

This track spans the ages in its components.

The original drum sounds and pattern originated two years past in a custom Max patch. I recently rediscovered them, and their generating patch, on a small FireWire drive that had concealed itself behind a bass trap in the studio.

The organic sounds in the break are the Wild Parrots of San Francisco. I caught them on mini-disc at the beginning of this very rainy season.

The voice in the break belongs to an old friend, Tom Dean, who was iso booth monologing in a previous life. He was reading from Macbeth, but this is from some between verse banter. This is the oldest source material in the track, likely going back to 01997. His words, and sometimes single syllables, have been edited into a new utterance.

The other voice, whispers and all, is mine. It's the most recent audio of the track, recorded just last month, and has also been manipulated extensively.

The entire song is in Valloti well-temperament. From the 1700s, it's a tuning often used for harpsichord and clavichord. We don't usually hear music like A Kind Of Sky II played in Valotti, so it imparts a further strangeness. Some of the bass had to be fine adjusted by hand to make it mesh with the strings, as it was not originally tuned this way. Various drums were also slightly resonated in Valotti to help them mesh with the instruments.

A Kind Of Sky II, by BlueDeceiver, is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.