FOUR, by Kieron James
A little like Alcmene, this track came together pretty quickly and, as I mentioned on Twitter, it’s the first one I’ve composed for a long time which has been built on a completely linear timeline (i.e. no use of the Cubase arranger track). This doesn’t happen very often and when it does, it feels like the track has almost written itself.
The idea kicked off with a couple of bars sequenced up using iPad App from Korg, iElectribe which I’m hugely impressed with. You’ll hear the iElectribe very clearly at around 1:57. I then exported the pattern into Cubase and started to build the rest of the piece around those four bars. Adding sub bass first and then building some of the other synth parts, drums (glitched using Automaton from Audio Damage) and finally adding Marcus Hutton’s fabulous delivery of the Edgard Varèse quote.
I’m handing over to Pure Tone for some quick analysis (to see if he can spot any howlers), stepping away for a couple of days to watch the Spain v Germany World Cup Semi Final tonight and concentrate an Bootslam’s kick drum and I’ll work on the mix at the weekend.
idea by Kieron James
I’ve been away from Cubase for a week or so, but picked this one up again today and put together a rough mix of something which may make it to FOUR – but I’m still unsure (so any feedback gratefully received). I quite like some bits of it – certain bass parts, the drums and brass – but I think I may have ended up with two tracks here which I’m trying to mix into one, linked by the percussion.
First full arrangement – 6th June 2010
I’ve added a couple of new sounds and put together an arrangement. Need to leave this for a couple of days, let the ears recover and work on the mix later in the week. Doesn’t seem like too much is out of place, but tired ears mean I may not be hearing everything. (Over to Pure Tone for analysis.)
Track #6 Arrangement #1 by Kieron James
With some revisions – 30 May 2010
Track #6-98-bars by kieronjames
First upload
The Burns We Earn
I spotted the @blocsonic remix competition on Twitter on 1st May and was intrigued at how I’d get on remixing a track which was “outside my genre comfort zone”. A couple of elements of the track – notably the bass and vocals – suggested one or two ideas and I started to play around with them.
I extracted midi from the bass line and worked with Rob Papen’s SubBoomBass to generate a couple of different sounds. I created a new (extremely simple) drum part in Battery and glitched the hats using Audio Damage’s Automaton. I created a sequence for one of the original synth parts using BigSeq2 and applied a few filters to the vocals. The guitar part was run through Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig as was an additional synth to create the siren sound.
First up is the original – 2 minute track from Friends or Whatever:
Friends or Whatever – The Burns We Earn by blocSonic
And here is my remix:
The Burns We Earn (Kieron James RMX) by kieronjames
You can download the single including six other remixes and a lovely eleven page PDF booklet from blocSonic’s website:
FOUR, by Kieron James
OK, this one has turned out completely off whack with the first three tracks of the album, but there’s something I really like about its quirkiness. There are lots of parts – both in terms of its many layers and the way it jumps from section to section.
I still have doubts as to whether it all works as a whole, but I’m not sure I care! Kinda happy to let it exist as a free-spirited piece and bounce wherever it likes.
Four by kieronjames
Update: 7 June 2010
Lovely to see that Matt Pacyga used this track for one of his #DAPTS videos:
Daily Achievements #DAPTS Playing Foursquare from Daily Achievements on Vimeo.
Kicked off this morning with Battery, as I tweeted a couple of hours ago. Wrote a drum part, added a little Automaton (Audio Damage) and a bass line using my “go-to” bass sequencer, Rob Papen’s SubBoomBass.
This is what I have so far. Time to walk the dog and see what ideas come to mind.
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Dog walking complete and it all seems to have turned a bit dub. (Just drums as that bass line was too reminiscent of something I think Mass of Moments?)
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And after tea, a little bit more. Playing around with a couple of sequences in Massive and SubBoomBass which work quite nicely with the break beat.
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Update 4 – After a week away
Worked on the bass line and some of the drum sounds. I think I have enough to turn this into a track now. (And I’m really pleased with how it’s shaping up.)
Four (20100305) by kieronjames
Update 5 – Fun with SBB and PSP Nitro
Whatever becomes of this track, gotta say, I’m having great fun putting it together!
Four (20100306) by kieronjames
FOUR, by Kieron James
This is the second track I’ve put together for my debut album FOUR, which will be released on 1st July by Clear Notice. (This will leave six months to create the three sibling albums for Somió, Half-BIT and Blue Omen.)
Recap is a remix of Capitulation – the first piece of music I composed, at the time using the Jonathan Scary moniker. It has been mastered by Pure Tone, though we may tweak a little when I have all the other tracks for the album completed.
Recap by kieronjames
I’m not going to add too much content to my own blog, since it’s being covered in detail over at Half-BIT.com, but I will take a moment just to add a brief description of what Fernando and I are working on.
It started with a tweet from @AudioPornTwitz about a Little Boots remix contest. The Earthquake stems were posted online so I DM’d Fernando to see if he was interested in having a play with them for our follow up to Separate.
Earthquake – GAP RMX by Half-BIT
I think the single most impressive thing about Twitter has been the opportunities for musical collaboration which it has brought about. This, my third significant ‘joint venture’ is with the amazing talent, Scott Lachance, aka Digitube. I really am absolutely thrilled to have an opportunity to work with such wonderful musicians and producers from all over the world.
I’ve only just begun with this and I do have a slight problem with one of the VST instruments drifting slightly out of time (around 2’10″ which I’ll fix). I’m uploading the small amount I’ve done and I guess here will be as good a place as any for Scott and I to exchange ideas as the piece develops. The upload of work in progress has become something of a tradition and people do seem to enjoy chucking in their two pennyworth as a track evolves (which I both seek out and value hugely).
This has not been mixed at all. Levels are definitely awry.
Update: 07/11/2009
FInished track. Mastered by @pure_tone
Update: 24/10/2009
Really great to speak with Scott on the telephone this evening. Felt very inspired after our call and so I did a little more work on this track. Spent quite a bit of time on the percussion and created a kinda funky guitar out of one of the stems (actually came from the drum stem, using BigSeq2 to create the groove).
I’ll have another listen tomorrow, but in truth barring level checks and EQ tweaks, I quite like the place this has got to.
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First Upload: 23/10/2009
Just playing around with some deep percussive ideas for this first upload. No arrangement and no mixing completed so far.
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Digitube Original “Organic Build 2″
Scott published his ‘let’s kick things off’ MP3 on SoundCloud and I’m uploading it here too for reference. Clearly, it’s much more than a ‘starter for ten’!
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OK, off we go again!
I finally completed my own remix of Alka’s Separate, when a few days ago I was sent a link by Fernando Fonseca to have a listen to what he was up to with his remix and to offer an opinion as to whether it needed vocals.
I am really impressed by what he’s put together.
Long and short of it is that we got talking about whether I’d be interested in mixing his remix. Fool that I am, I agreed!
Last night, I loaded the stems into Cubase and started to have a play around. I’ve worked on a supplementary bass part and I’m uploading a quick burst here, just a flavour of what I’ve got – it’s just a few bars of percs and bass, but gives a hint of where I want to take this.
Rather than the “drop” you’ll hear after the short soloed percussive break, it’ll almost certainly lift here (more drums!), but I do love the sub at this point.
As always, I’m uploading a tiny snippet to kick off the post. I really like looking back and listening to how the tracks evolve, so these are always great to hear once the finished piece has been mastered.
Mastered version
Separate – STRBX RMX by Half-BIT
Mastered by Pure Tone
Update: 20/10/2009
Should really listen to this again with fresh ears tomorrow before uploading, particularly as I did most of the mixing on the train. But what the heck! Let’s pop this version on the website now and if I need to remix or tinker in any other way, I can always come back to it over the next few days.
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Update: 15/10/2009
Train journey home allowed a bit more time to play around with the Half-BIT Mix. Really liking the way this is coming together, though clearly a way to go yet.
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Update: 12/10/2009
Still poorly so it’s laptop in bed (again) and a little bit more playing with The Half-BIT Mix.
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Update: 11/10/2009
Took @pure_tone’s advice and brought the laptop to bed to do a little more work on this track. Not taken it too much further as my head feels like ’tis full of cotton wool and I don’t want to have to undo lots of this later if it’s awful with proper ears.
Not an arrangement, nor a mix. Just some ideas. Some will stay, some will go.
Anyway, Tone was right. That killed an hour!
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First Upload: 07/10/2009
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I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am to be working on another piece with Shadi! :-] I was thrilled with her selection of Forough Farrokhzad’s poetry for The Wind Will Take Us and even more delighted with her outstanding vocal performance.
This is VERY early in its development. Shadi hasn’t even heard it as I upload this, but I’ll drop her a DM on Twitter in a moment and keep my fingers crossed. Right now (as usual) there’s no thought been given to arrangement or mixing. This is simply a preview of some of the instruments and the overall theme of the track. Brain dumping indeed.
Update: [25/11/2009]
Took on board Fernando’s comments below and added a filter and sequence to the opening bass line to give it a little more groove. Responding to Doyle by lifting the vocals and EQ-ing some of the instruments to give them more room. Also glitched up the percussion track and generally remixed (levels / EQ / some compression on one of the other bass lines).
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Update: [24/11/2009]
Now mixed with vocals (thank you Shadi!!!). MP3 below is not mastered. Any feedback very gratefully received. Would love to hear from you so post a comment below. Do it!
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Update: [27/09/2009 Arrangement 1]
I’ve added drums, worked on a couple of extra layers and put together the first arrangement. It’s a preliminary mix and in terms of levels / EQ, I’m going to leave it pretty much as is until the raw vocals are back. I want to hand over to Shadi now for her input.
Shadi: Keep in mind that the mix / arrangement is still very fluid and can be amended in way you like.
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Update: [18/09/2009]
Not a huge amount been modified since Wednesday’s update and since I’ve been full of a cold, I suspect the mix might be very weird. Feels like my head is stuffed with cotton wool!
I was inclined to agree with Fernando’s comments about the piano, so for now, I’ve deleted it. Sounded a bit Happy Mondays to me and changed the feel quite a lot.
Still just a collection of ideas and with the Great North Run on Sunday, I don’t think I’ll be moving this one on much until next week now. (Sorry Shadi!)
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Update: [16/09/2009]
I’ve lifted the tempo by 6bpm to help this one groove, but it still isn’t gelling for me (yet). I’ve got confidence in the track and I’m sure it’ll pull together, but right now, it’s just not happening. Being full of a cold and having had a couple of very intense days at work, guess I can’t really expect to be in the most creative of moods. Probably best to leave it for now.
As per previous posts, should point out that this is still not an arrangement. Just some of the possible themes for the final piece. Zero attention has been given to the mix (levels or EQ).
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Update: [13/09/2009]
Uploading a couple of additional parts, though must stress that this is NOT an arrangement at all. The piano is unlikely to kick this track off (but who knows!) and some of the synth sounds still need lots of work (EQ too). What’s more, this is a VERY rough mix. Levels are all over the place. Drums are toppy (but expect to hear another drum part too, this is mainly percussion for texture). Definitely needs a lot more sub/bottom end and bigger drums. I can hear the SBB sequencer drifting slightly out of time too. Loads to fix!
The feel of the piece has changed quite a lot over the weekend. It feels much brighter and lighter now. I’m not sure that’s entirely the direction I had planned, but I do kind of like it. Let’s see where it takes me next!
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First Upload: [11/09/2009]
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I guess it was the sun, sea and sand of a beautiful Spanish island which inspired me to try and turn a fabulous IDM track from Alka into a clubby groove, but that was my intention with this treatment of “Separate”.
With that in mind, I decided to name it the Jandía Mix after the small resort at the southern tip of Fuerte Ventura, where I was staying 10 days ago when this was put together.
Update: 7th October 2009
The shrill flute towards the end of this track and its incongruity with the rest of the piece has been niggling me since August. I love what Tone had done with the mastering and apart from that, was pretty happy with the track. Last week I could take no more so I opened up Cubase and played around with some different instruments. The flute has now gone and been replaced with a filter-tweaked lead synth patch from Ohm Force’s Symptohm, run through Audio Damage BigSeq2 with a little DaTube FX. Once done, I handed it back to Tone and he’s re-mastered compressing the track slightly to highlight some of the detail.
Separate (Jandía Mix) by kieronjames
And here’s a link to the original track by Alka on Last.fm.
Note re first three comments below:
I did have an earlier problem with the lead synth at 3:28. There was pretty heavy modulation on the original track which (to my ears at least) bent it out of tune – not on the original, but on the remix – so I sought comments from a few trusted Twitter folks. Responses from @digitaldoyle, @digitube and @UBLF are shown below.
I tried tweaking the EQ at 3:28 as suggested but was convinced that the part was still out of tune, rather than just a harmonics issue so I ran the audio file through Cubase Pitch Correct to see how far it was “drifting”. After adjusting and readjusting for about an hour, I ended up deleting that part and writing three new lead synth lines. I’ve also done more work on the arrangement and mix and as ever, I’d love your feedback.
The laptop is back from the Apple Store and the geniuses have worked their magic (by replacing the logic board). This is fantastic news! Can’t believe it’s only been a week. It feels like a lifetime since I last plugged that Steinberg USB dongle in.
To celebrate, I’ve begun work on the Music For Freedom project kicked off by @fjfonseca and PublicSpaces netlabel. You can read much more about the project on PublicSpaces’ website. I feel very proud to play a small part in the Indaba and Soundcloud music sessions. The response from musicians has been inspirational.
My starting point is to listen to the various uploads at Indaba and select one or two samples to work with. I have already uploaded some drum loops to the session and some of the vocal samples have caught my attention.
Although there are parallels between this and the Baha’i track which I did for @thomasraukamp, I’m keen for this to be much more traditional – roots in the music of the region. With that in mind, I’m downloading the Persian melodies from Fernando Fonseca and will kick things off with those.
Update: [10 September '09]
The finished piece can be heard here.
Update: [14 August '09]
Summer holidays have played havoc with progress on this track, so just a quick update to let people know that it isn’t forgotten. I’m hoping to receive vocals before too long. In the meantime, here’s the very latest mix of the instrumental.
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Update: [25 July '09]
Not too many changes since 22nd July update below. Just a little more work on the bass sequence, changed one oscillator and increased the level of the other. Also brightened up the “slams” in the backing to Verse 2 by tweaking the EQ.
Until the vocals are added, I really am going to leave this alone now.
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Update: [22 July '09]
Did a little more work on this last night. Beefed up the bass with a new sound from SubBoomBass, worked on the EQ for the celeste, string instruments and djembe (removed some lower frequencies from the latter so that it wouldn’t fight with the bass as much) and extended the middle verse by twelve bars to make room for the extra text.
Listened to this as it’s uploading and not so sure I like the second oscillator on the SubBoomBass track. I think I’ll swap this out later for a Half Sine (it’s the higher frequency patch which answers the lower frequency one).
Also, bass is fighting with other instruments rhythmically in some sections of the track – which it didn’t seem to on earlier versions. Feel as though I’m getting too close to this and my tweaks are sending it in the wrong direction.
Very excited about hearing the vocals and looking forward to being in a position to put a final mix together. Will work a little more on that bass line tonight. It’s strange because in 12 July update I really liked the bass!
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Update: [19 July '09]
I probably should wait until tomorrow before uploading this for two reasons:
- I’ve been mixing all day using two pairs of headphones and haven’t heard it on any speakers at all, let alone reference monitors which I don’t possess.
- I should give it twenty four hours to listen again with fresh ears having spent some time today working with the file.
Anyway, despite the fact that it will probably change again a few times before it’s mastered, I think it’s now time to hand over to Shahryar Saberfakhr for the vocals.
I’ve left spaces in the track for the three verses of The Wind Will Take Us by Forugh Farrokhzad which will be sung in Farsi by Shahryar Saberfakhr:
The Wind Will Take Us
In my small night, ah
the wind has a date with the leaves of the trees
in my small night there is agony of destruction
listen
do you hear the darkness blowing?
I look upon this bliss as a stranger
I am addicted to my despair.listen do you hear the darkness blowing?
something is passing in the night
the moon is restless and red
and over this rooftop
where crumbling is a constant fear
clouds, like a procession of mourners
seem to be waiting for the moment of rain.
a moment
and then nothing
night shudders beyond this window
and the earth winds to a halt
beyond this window
something unknown is watching you and me.O green from head to foot
place your hands like a burning memory
in my loving hands
give your lips to the caresses
of my loving lips
like the warm perception of being
the wind will take us
the wind will take us.
Forugh Farrokhzad
Translated by Ahmad Karimi Hakkak
The spots in the track I had in mind for the three verses are:
1’55″ -> 2’19″
2’44″ -> 3’08″
3’58″ -> 4’22″
I’m really not sure if these will be long enough (particularly for the second longer verse) and I don’t want to be prescriptive at all. If vocals fit elsewhere in the track (e.g. during the introduction) that’s fine too!
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Update: [15 July '09]
Had planned to work on this track last night – and wished I had trusted my instincts and left well alone. Given that I wasn’t feeling too inspired, I thought I’d do some “admin” on the Cubase file – organising tracks into folders, creating marker and arranger tracks and starting to consider structure and arrangement.
I had a few other questions to consider too:
- How long should the introduction be?
- Which instruments and effects would feature in the intro and final sections of the piece?
- How and where should the vocals be incorporated?
- Should I create a bridge?
The so-called “admin” (tidying rather than organising) is one part of the process which I find anything but creative, but since I wasn’t feeling too musically inspired, it seemed a good opportunity to take care of it. So an hour into moving things around, track and part labelling and considering the overall structure, I was horrified when Cubase froze.
I’ve set up the iMac to create backups every so often, but had neglected to do this with the MacBook, so all was lost. Thankfully, I had created a new file before I started, so the fact that I’d inadvertently deleted the entire third part of the riff (every instrument) during my rearrangement tasks was not as horrendous as it might otherwise have been.
Software crashes are a fact of life with digital musical creation, but that doesn’t make them any easier to bear! So I’m no further on with the arrangement and all the parts below are STILL playing in unison!
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Update: [12 July '09]
Didn’t get very long to work on this tonight as I was unexpectedly required to drive Dad’s Taxi. Tonight’s pick up: Three rowdy teenagers (including my highly charged 13 year old daughter) from ten pin bowling in Rochdale.
Spent some time later working on a bass line with Rob Papen’s excellent “SubBoomBass” and I’m uploading a small section here, first solo, then with one of the drum kits (no percussion) and an additional synth part. After the second time through, I add one of the melody instruments, just so you can hear how it fits together.
I know I must seem to labour this point, but this isn’t an arrangement and it isn’t mixed at all. Call it a preview of some of the instruments which may (or may not) make it to the finished track.
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Update: [10 July '09]
Pleased with how this is beginning to take shape. I’ve added another synth track – the one which opens this teaser – and some other instruments playing the lead melody. At the moment, they’re all playing in unison, which won’t happen in the final mix, except perhaps at the end.
Other than a bass (SubBoomBass from Rob Papen looks to be likely VST) and a main drum kit, which I’m still unsure as to whether I’ll add, think I have all the ducks (or camels) in a row now, so it’s time to start work on the arrangement.
I’m starting to hear this build – Ravel’s “Bolero” style – to a loud and rhythmic climax.
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Update: [9 July '09]
Spent a little more time on this last night. Worked a lot on the percussion and was able to make substantial (still early days) changes to the sound by replacing the instruments used in the melody – thanks to import of a copy of the Persian midi file which Fernando emailed me.
I also dropped the tempo by around 4bpm. I want the rhythm to “groove” and with it being predominantly based around sixteenths, I think it has more chance of doing this at a slightly slower pace.
My favourite part is still the two notes played on the FXpansion Orca (“Beating” preset) with BigSeq2 plugin effects and REVerence (Cubase 5) reverb. Simple.
There’s still no arrangement or mixing here. These are just elements I’m planning to incorporate. And I’m convinced there are a couple of bum notes in that midi file at around 0’57″.
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First upload: [8 July '09]
I only spent an hour or so last night, using the traditional_melody file uploaded by Fernando and a short drum loop of my own. I’ve added a couple of notes using Orca (FXpansion) and my favourite VST from AudioDamage, BigSeq2.
I’m uploading an eight bar teaser, but this has a LONG way to go yet!
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I sketched these two bars out a couple of months ago and every so often the twelve notes reel me back in for a listen.
I think it’s time to see if I can develop this into a track. Not sure about the arpeggios, but I really love the simplicity of the melody.
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Mentioned on Twitter yesterday that the track I’m working on had a bit of a Depeche Mode thing going on. Not really sure that’s the case anymore, but for me at least, there are elements of this which are early 1980s.
That certainly wasn’t my intention when starting this track. It took a left turn towards electro-pop somewhere around the high arpeggios and by the time I’d added the opening bass riff (which has taken over from the melody which appears much later to become the dominant theme), it was game over.
This won’t be the final arrangement (a bit of a give away in the rather abrupt ending) and I was monitoring again with earbuds last night – you know the rest.
Just to reiterate, this isn’t finished at all, but I would welcome any thoughts. It’s a collection of ideas, not a coherent piece. Some will stay. Some won’t. The sweeping synth appears too frequently for my liking. Need to delete some instances of that.
All in all, I kind of liked it. Now I’m not so sure.
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Thought I’d try my hand at a more minimal piece and created the following which I’ve called Cyrodilic Brandhi (don’t ask). It’s not really a serious attempt, so I won’t mind if you snort with derision after 16 bars, assuming you make it that far.
Not much to say about this really. I suspect I’ll ditch it but salvage on or two elements for another tune, so this is just brain dumping again really. As so often in this category, it hasn’t been mixed so not only will there be lots of EQ glitches, the levels are probably all over the place too! And the pitch bend is an assault on the ears. Apologies over. Here you go:
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