Requiem For Lost Keys (disquiet0343) by Hypoid

Requiem for Lost Keys (disquiet0343)
Seeing this weeks Junto email made me both smile and cringe, fun and interesting prompt but I had nothing. Went in search of something suitable and found something fairly quick. Not sure of the originality or success, but here it is.
What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine?
A flat minor…oooooh that’s painful! Now the puns and jokes be flyin’!
Wanted to make a literal soundscape, so began making a bunch of field recordings of things being dropped, rolled, shook and broken. That was the easy part, a harder task came with building multiple notes on three different pianos in Cubasis. I stupidly tried to use all keys on all pianos for a textured and fuller sound, but that confused the midi gods of iPad music making, so I was damned for my attempt. Ultimately made a truce by using sections of keys from each piano. And this was just the intro. The music proper(or improper if you prefer), was played in the key of…you guessed it Ab minor with 3 pianos(Live Grand, Bright, Acoustic), 3 synths(Plastic Sun, SequenceBass, Lost in the Wind) and 1 Choir synth. A song of tribute for a fellow keyed instrument, who could have only fallen so far after rising so high. It’s late and this isn’t getting any funnier. A bunch of effects eq, overdrive, tape delay, Discord4 and Eos2 on a send from most channels and some panning finished it off. So I made the bad pun and even threw in some double, neigh, triple entendre with the title. Lost piano, lost car keys or maybe how this was played…lots of lost keys! :-)
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