Always Remember To Stretch (disquiet0318) by Nate Trier

This week's assignment was to make a piece of music based on a single held tone.

I played a note on my accordion and then processed it two different ways. The first way, the A section, uses time/amplitude effects (tremolo, time-stretch). The second way, the B section, uses various kinds of distortion. The final section, the C section, combines the two (my own little #soundart sonata form).

I realized just before uploading it that I didn't hold my first tone for long enough, so I was going to add a note encouraging whoever uses this track to timestretch the notes as needed. Then I realized I could do that myself!

I used two different pitch-shift methods to make the first tone 7 seconds long, then put the two tracks against each other, slightly panned to the left and right. One track is pitch-shifted down, old-school style, and the other was stretched using Ableton's Warping algorithm and then "tuned" down.

This generated a lot of wild overtones and distortion that are more D00M than the initial draft!

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