Friday, August 7, 2009

Song038_Portraits of Nature

This instrumental is a combination of loops, samples and real instruments. The bass and guitars were done live, the drums are 4 tracks of rhythms that I 'bussed' to a reverb channel (for fullness and smoothness), the keyboards are the remaining 6-8 tracks (accordion, violin, organ, etc).

Carly likes photographing flowers, and her parents have willing subjects in their gardens. The photos are great, but her abilities with post-production editing give them a surreal quality (some look painted, some are color-altered, etc), and they have a lot of emotion. I'll quit bragging and let you look for yourself (http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/thumbpage.aspx?e=3675690). The goal of today's song was to make an instrumental with similar qualities to the ones she likes to listen to when editing photos. We'll see if she adds this one to the "Photoshoping" playlist.

-Matthew

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