remix
jason moran remix experiment
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I also messed around with some new spectral FX I’ve been getting into recently.
Hope it makes you smile!
-CMAC
bing crosby remixed
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I gave an assignment to a group of aspiring sound designers not too long ago. The task was to take two completely different tracks of music and find a way to make them work together and sound somewhat uniform using only editing, transposition and time compression/expansion. They all had an afternoon to complete it. Here’s my ‘remixed’ example. Even caught some of the ii-V harmony in the second half!
Thanks to choreographer Cherice Barton for asking me to attempt this in the first place! It was a fun experiment. Makes me think what other wild juxtapositions are out there waiting for discovery.
cmac produces JB3
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I like seeing my old friends from school take necessary initiative and elevate their music to the next level. Ever since graduation, I have been impressed with how much of a following my colleague, RnB artist Jesse Boykins III has generated for himself. He’s been busy all over the U.S. showcasing his music, touring with one of my best friends and outstanding drummer, Adam Jackson, has been featured on numerous blogs and rose to the near summit of the BETJ charts; not to mention fostering several noteworthy collaborations with producers such as JMost, who is also a hugely notable school chum.
Jesse and I have always talked about doing a track together but this summer we finally made it happen. He gave me a scratch a capella vocal track and then I proceeded to mix in the rest. Hopefully this will just be the beginning of a very warm series of collaborations. You can follow Jesse on twitter: @Jb3Music
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the bonus track for the 2009 compilation
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Every year, the Banff Centre releases a compilation album of all the best recordings from the International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, fittingly they title it “Centre Pieces”. And yes, that’s centre - the Canadian spelling of “center” :-)
Artistic Director, composer and trumpeter extraordinaire Dave Douglas asked me to create a remix track as an addition to this year’s jazz compilation album. In doing so, I recorded as many sounds as I could from the participants during my time at the workshop. All in all, I sifted through approximately 8 gigs of source material all of which were recorded with nothing more than my pocket-sized field recorder (the Sony PCM-D50 to be exact).
Then the fun began!!
I loaded everything up in a session and played around with all the various individual sound bites. Please note: everything on this track is ‘programmed’ – that is to say these clips were all live, acoustic, and improvised recordings. They were then later re-sliced, effected and synced in an entirely new context quite unique from their original:
Featured on this track is original sound from these musicians:
(in order of appearance)
Adam Miller – Tablas
Michal Vanoucek – ‘Extended’ Piano
Brian Seligman – Acoustic Guitar
Ryan Butler – Electric Guitar
Anu Junnonen – Voice
the joker is released!
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Last year I showed you all an excerpt of a piece I created for recorderist Terri Hron (to see the previous post, click here). Well, I am happy to say that her album “bird on a wire” has just been released throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S., It’s really a great example of several artistic collaborations on many levels. The album’s music is comprised of several composers Terri commissioned for this project, and the audio production is of the highest, warmest quality possible – something that is difficult to achieve when electronics and real-time processing are so widely (or should I say wisely?) utilized. This is a really unique and special album that I am happy to be apart of and encourage you all to seek out.
Terri Hron – Recorder
Dan Porter – Engineering
Yours Truly – Producer/Composer
