the thing about being free

.aa - week four.

I recorded a Steinway piano playing a few chords, using a Stereo pair of Rode NT5s. I opened the piano as much as possible and positioned the 'lid' to face at the windows. On the other side of the curtains were drawn.

I used this setup to get capture as much natural, reverberative recording of the upper register. From there I took the recording to my home studio and went a little crazy with granulation, delay, equalization and more reverb! I sequenced different samples over one another and EQed them both low and high. The 'hacked up' effect that granulation added brings a nice bell-like sound in this excerpt.


dreamtime.mp3


.sources.
Grice, David 25.03.08, "Outside the Square (2)," Lecture of EMU, Adelaide University.

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