disquiet0300 3x100 by NorthWoods

Here I celebrate growing up with the electric guitar--the Who, Live at Leeds; Hendrix at Monterey Pop; Sonic Youth, many live shows; Glenn Branca and Jerry Garcia and John Cipollina, the ringing and reverberating of an electric guitar turned up high. I chose as my chord the chord represented by the open strings of an electric guitar, all strings detuned by 1 half step except for the low E (detuned 3 half-steps). I played this on an odd Tokai guitar (shown here)--made out of aluminum and fitted with an internal Smoky amp. I ran this out to a splitter that ran to two other Smoky amps, close-miked. I smacked the chord hard and let it ring and feedback, hitting it again at odd intervals, and recorded the resulting three tracks.

I then picked out the notes to the same chord on the piano while listening to the tracks on headphones.

last, I put the recorded guitar track on my phone, put my phone at the bottom of a didjeridoo, and recorded the sound coming out the other end.

I copied the main guitar track and dropped that copy by an octave, then slightly panned the two amp tracks hard left and right, detuning them a bit. Lastly I delayed two of the three guitar tracks a bit to thicken things up.

just to make the track punch me in the face :) I dropped on a heavy kick drum.

not much other processing besides some reverb and a bit of compression and eq here and there.

Looking forward to hearing y'alls compositions!

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