No Worries from electrochristianmeditation by Jim Hanks
Technical Details:
The inspiration for this piece started one afternoon as I was laying on the trampoline with my son Vinnie listening to the combination of birds and traffic. Later, I used a Zoom Q3 stereo recorder to capture over 20 minutes of the sounds and was pleasantly surprised by several moments including a bee hovering around the recorder, a crow flying fairly close, and even a couple of percussive hits (bee again?) that I was able to turn into kicks and snares. All the percussion sounds came from this recording as did the atmospheric intro and outro bits.
The EWI leads for this piece come courtesy of Addictive synth, which is a very responsive synth for wind controller use as breath can be routed simultaneously to a number of modulation sources including volume, cutoff frequency, noise level, morph, etc. I wind-enabled and tweaked 3 of the stock patches: Digilead, Buzzness, and Flute. EWI was recorded in Addictive while a rough mix played in the background in Meteor. Then the clips were rough edited in Meteor before copying to NanoStudio for the final mix.
I also recorded the wobble bass with the EWI using the VL70-m hardware synth and the Taurus patch from the Patchman Turbo chip; the wobble was achieved just from breath control.
The main bass part and the pad/key parts were Eden patches originating from the SynthGarden patch set.
Vocals were processed in Voice Synth before importing to NanoStudio.
Some other tricks include the use of Euclidean rhythms (www.ageofthewheel.com/) in one spot.
Tracklist
| 5. | No Worries | 4:57 |
Lyrics
Matthew 6:25a “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life... 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? (NIV)
Credits
License
All rights reserved.
I like many styles of music but most of my own productions tend towards jazz with electronic elements. I play the Akai EWI4000s electric wind instrument, ukuleles, guileles, NAF, whistle, recorders, harmonicas, and various software instruments on Windows and iOS.