Potential Collaberation

I have begun working on a song with my friend Ryan, which has considerable potential. If I can somehow turn this into an interdisciplinary or multimedia piece of work, that would be ideal, as collaboration is the thing that is most artistically inspiring to me right now. But as it stands, it’s just a file on his laptop. However, it is the most exciting collaboration happening right now, so I will begin writing about it in my process blogs, regardless of the result. This song started after a decision to create music together, sparked by a conversation we had in a club the other weekend. Ryan’s music has a highly experimental edge, and I consider him at the forefront of experimental sound design techniques in electronic music. While he has created one club-type loop that we could potentially develop, the most exciting aspect to me is the demo he has created using Ableton’s vocoder. The vocoder has an external setting that can be used to play a secondary sample’s harmonic content through the attack of another sample, like a drum loop. He has used a paul stretched vocal pad playing through exponential rhythmic kick drums that make it feel granulated and very free flowing. Doing the same thing with the bass gives it a very dynamic feeling, with all the elements being hard to trace in the mix. I will try recording on it soon.