The type of paradise you can’t kiss.

1.”The type of paradise that can’t kiss.” (5:03)

2. So I took a basic drum loop idea and based my piece on that. The first loop was an electronic one, used mainly for background noise, I composed it myself, and added some reverb to it. The second drum loop was one I made myself using the instrument rack in live. I also had compression, and saturation on it. The next thing I did was add bass. My bass was recorded live, with effects added afterwards, including a filter, compressor, and saturater. As I added each of my bass tracks I found ways to elaborate my drum tracks, along with the bass line as well. After I had this foundation set up I went in and added synth lines and a vocal track. The vocals were from a poem I found online, the subject was especially interesting because It described a paradise with a beautiful woman that couldn’t get any better except for the catch. The beautiful woman could not be loved, if you were to “kiss her lips, then the garden of paradise would sink into the earth forever, and to you it would be lost”. That line pretty much sums up the message the poem was trying to get across. So I cut it up and used it.

3. As for originality, my sounds were all produced by me, either through a midi instrument or through my bass. The only found sound I used was the recording of Lori Lubeski reading poetry. The original audio sample can be found at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Segue-BPC.html . I took inspiration from a group called Portishead that I’ve listened to recently. They have a similar emphasis on a driving bass, with minimal involvement of other instruments.

4.Screen shots: I took advantage of the arrangement view in live on this project. It really helped me see what I was working with. They can be found on my web space, http://rpinfo.rpi.edu/~deweek2/

5. My sound files can be found on the web space as well. Titled “The kind of paradise you can’t kiss.”