Fractured obsolescence
Aug 15, 2022, 03:36 PM
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Composition by Mandy Hampson.
"The sound of the coffee grinder sounded rhythmic to me, it sounded like it had bits in it to cut up and repurpose. I felt it could layer up and cut down, it had parts that I could build a wash of sound with and create a world to drift into.
"So I set off cutting it up and effecting it out of the harsh reality sound it arrived as into something ethereal and transient. I was trying to break it down, rebuild it, make it sound like a thought remembrance of a sound and a place somewhere. I wanted to make it reflective, to calm it down, reduce it to an essence. I wanted to make it evocative and unrecognisable from its initial self.
"I put it into Logic and cut up the bits that made a “beat” and pulled out the longer washy parts. Then I Missy Elliot-ed it - flipped it and reversed it. Took it out of Logic and put it through AUM to break it down some more, and to put a massive reverb on it via the rymdigare app.
"Then I took it back in to Logic, layered it, cut it up again, looped parts, and threw a bunch more effects over it, reverbs and delays and echoes, pushing it back and back, smoothing it out, making it new and different, until it became more and more a memory.
"I had some recently made tracks kicking around that I wanted to integrate into the piece if any would sit. To give it something to hang off. I ran through a bunch of those til I found one, primarily and a second in support, that sat under the fractured obsolescence of ‘beats’, glitches and washed out reconfigurations. Arranging it into a landscape, working it to a place that felt like a place somewhere, a thought, a memory, a reinvention, a feeling, an evocation.
"I wanted to create a world of soul that took you to place of its, and a listeners, own making. That was reflective. Held a feeling of the past. Was something to sink into. That may evoke the feeling of original sound, but not at all likely. I wanted to make the original sound obsolete, I wanted to feature it, reinvent it, and give it a whole new way of being."
This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
"The sound of the coffee grinder sounded rhythmic to me, it sounded like it had bits in it to cut up and repurpose. I felt it could layer up and cut down, it had parts that I could build a wash of sound with and create a world to drift into.
"So I set off cutting it up and effecting it out of the harsh reality sound it arrived as into something ethereal and transient. I was trying to break it down, rebuild it, make it sound like a thought remembrance of a sound and a place somewhere. I wanted to make it reflective, to calm it down, reduce it to an essence. I wanted to make it evocative and unrecognisable from its initial self.
"I put it into Logic and cut up the bits that made a “beat” and pulled out the longer washy parts. Then I Missy Elliot-ed it - flipped it and reversed it. Took it out of Logic and put it through AUM to break it down some more, and to put a massive reverb on it via the rymdigare app.
"Then I took it back in to Logic, layered it, cut it up again, looped parts, and threw a bunch more effects over it, reverbs and delays and echoes, pushing it back and back, smoothing it out, making it new and different, until it became more and more a memory.
"I had some recently made tracks kicking around that I wanted to integrate into the piece if any would sit. To give it something to hang off. I ran through a bunch of those til I found one, primarily and a second in support, that sat under the fractured obsolescence of ‘beats’, glitches and washed out reconfigurations. Arranging it into a landscape, working it to a place that felt like a place somewhere, a thought, a memory, a reinvention, a feeling, an evocation.
"I wanted to create a world of soul that took you to place of its, and a listeners, own making. That was reflective. Held a feeling of the past. Was something to sink into. That may evoke the feeling of original sound, but not at all likely. I wanted to make the original sound obsolete, I wanted to feature it, reinvent it, and give it a whole new way of being."
This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds