I'd Hit That

07/23/10 • -1 min

The Cacophonous World of Professor Whimsey

Here is a delightful instrumental / percussion amuse-bouche to whet your palate. Nothing too profound here, just playing around with various percussional timbres, whence the title.
http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Id_Hit_That.mp3

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Off the Grid

No synths this time (a first for me)! Used only the instruments pictured above (plus my voice and our kitchen wok-lid as a gong, not pictured): ashiko hand-drum (djembe like), kosika shaker, tambourine, box drum, mbira/kalimba, bamboo saxophone, and some weird bamboo/reed whistle. I used ample instances of Celemony Melodine to keep everything in tune (and repitch a few notes), and looped some of the parts a bit (and the 4-on-the-floor "kick" is the ashiko pitched down roughly 5 semitones). Most were recorded with an SM58, my voice with my CAD-M177. The reverb is a cave impulse in Cakewalk Perfect Space.
http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Off_the_Grid.mp3

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Pater Noster (Latin for Kids!)

There's never been an easier way to learn the "Pater Noster"!
I'm not sure what I was thinking when I had this idea, because shoehorning plainsong into one of the most rigid forms of music around was probably not the best idea in the world, but I thought it'd be fun to hear once I'd made it. And I'm pleased with the results.
Also -- here is the audio file so you can download it for your iPods:
http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Pater_Noster.mp3