It looks like a long time before live music will be up and running in any normal way. So In the meantime I thought I would film and put up where I’m up to with the live performance for Made In Japan.
The visuals were made from a collection of videos I’ve recorded over the years and processed using Cycling 74′ Max.
Watch the video and give me your thoughts below:
I’ve made a music video for Tokudawara the second track of my album “Made In Japan”.
You can see it above on my Youtube channel.
MANCHESTER,UK-After travelling through Japan and making extensive field recordings of places and events in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, ConfettiTsunami returned back to Manchester with an idea to turn these into a travelogue.
“Made in Japan” evolved organically from this original idea. Interweaving the field recordings with compositions written whilst in Japan, and developing them back home in Manchester, ConfettiTsunami creates music that drifts between experimental electronica and dance music.
Crafted out of passion and a yearning to relive the familiar, and inspired by electronic luminaries such as Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin and Oneohtrix Point never, ‘Made In Japan ‘ is a nostalgic trip of a real life experience that is both reflective and sincere; an album that any fans of electronic music won’t want to miss.
Album available from; https://confettitsunami.bandcamp.com/album/made-in-japan For more Information, promotional requests or to arrange an interview contact Directly via Artist@confettitsunami.co.uk or visit www.confettitsunami.com.
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My first full length album is finally here! Made In Japan has taken several years of hard work and is available on Bandcamp now: https://confettitsunami.bandcamp.com/album/made-in-japan
I’ve been a bit slack posting up on bandcamp the last 13 Tracks from my track a week project. But its finally up to listen to and download.
This exercise in creating a track a week for a year has really brushed up my understanding of workflow and given me an idea of the sounds I would like to take forward into the future. In 2015 I aim to be making stuff with a more polished sound and there will be some news coming in the next few months regarding some new material.
Thanks to the weeklybeats.com website and its users for being supportive and complimentary, to Adam Wheeldon and John George for helping me on a couple of the tracks and finally to the people who have listened to it on bandcamp and emailed me.
Feel free to tell me what you think in the comments section below or via email.
It’s over, My new years resolution 2014 was to crate a track a week for the whole year and 52 weeks later its finished!
I decided to bring 2014 to a close with a bit of a pallet cleanser. I used piano recordings of chords and stretched and played with the samples to get interesting ambient pad effects. I then used a Minibrute which I got as a Christmas present to add extra sequenced rhythms.
This year has been really fun for me to get to grips with my OP1 and learn ways to work quickly with Ableton live. Next year I’m going to spend more time focusing on tracks and try to put together an album of stuff with more detail that focuses on the sound and ideas I have developed over this year:
Im taking time off my albums of the year list to bring you second to last weekly beats track.
This Weeks track is pretty much all op 1 again. I built this nice sounding organ pad using the OP1’s FM synth and it really suited the key of A minor so that pretty much decided how the track would go.
After recording all the instrumentals within the OP1 I decided to use the Kramer tape emulation plugin I bought during the waves sale on every track for both as an effect and for mastering purposes. It was the only effect plugin used outside of the OP1 bar Ozone for mastering.
The voice sample came from a link on “the moth” podcast. I heard it and thought it suited the mood of the piece so sampled it with the OP1 and ran it through the CWO effect. I highly recommend the moth to anyone who likes listening to Podcasts:
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This week I stuck to the darker sound I have been working on for the past few weeks. The idea was to try and push the Teenage Engineering OP1 into areas I don’t usually hear. Making it growl with a grittier sound then the usual soft melodies I get from it.
Every instrument in this track is the OP1 with the exception of the Drums made on NI Maschine. The track ominously builds to the first Drop at the 2:20 mark, which is a drum pattern at 80bpm before building to a more Drum & Bass style Section towards the end at 3:55. For the final minute of the track I loose control and the whole thing collapses in on itself as the OP screams with delay and feedback:
This track started with evolving synth drone sound from my op1. I was working on another track for the first few days but after making this drone I decided to scrap the rest and just use the drone sound as a basis of the rest of the track.
The one problem was that the drone sound slowly drifts around the 80bpm tempo mark without sticking to a fixed tempo for more than a couple of bars. I tried to make it work in a fixed tempo but it lost its key element of being unnerving and grabbing your attention. Which I believe is partly down to the drifting nature of the sound.
Deciding to ignore the tempo entirely and use the synth as my reference greatly affected the rest of the track as It meant I couldn’t use midi fixed to a grid for any part of the track and everything would have to be played by hand and recorded into the track.
Because everything had to be recorded live I decided to use real instruments instead of samples as much as possible and to keep the dark and rough and ready approach I used single takes of each instrument.
I recorded each instrument several times and picked the take that worked the best, the only exception being the drums which were samples played live from NI Maschine:
This week was an attempt to learn my way around my current modular build. The base of this was built around the OP1 with a few samples Choirs I have recorded. I then layered the sounds from my modular into the rest of the track: