Old Scratch from electrochristianmeditation by Jim Hanks
Just in time for Halloween, this track explores the past, present, and future of the creature who tries to claim the day as his own - that's right, Old Scratch himself, the devil.
Don't get too scared by the first minute. We know how the story turns out.
Technical Details:
This is the completion of a project started for the Disquiet Junto #34. For this piece, all the sounds except vocals were derived from a sparse sample which is the first 14s of the piece. Everything else was realized in the NanoStudio app on my iPad 2. The drum kit was fairly straightforward split-and-tweak although using the effects in TRG helped a lot. The rest are Eden synth patches, all using snippets of the original sample processed in various ways. I did use a fair amount of resampling so I can't tell you how some of the sounds work - not that I won't tell you, I really don't understand how some of that came out of Eden. Most of it is a combination of wild LFO modulation (pretty much straight from the stock patches, just replacing the source sample) and playing very high or low on the keyboard which does very strange things due to extreme playback speed stretching/contracting - and maybe frequency aliasing? Honestly, I was very surprised to get as much variety out of the source sample as I did, and I'm sure I just scratched the surface (pun intended :-) )
Vocals were recorded and mangled in the Voice Synth app. All the other sounds were derived from the sample mentioned, even the EWI lead patch.
The source audio for this track is the jingle, or sound logo, for the Radius broadcast series, based in Chicago. More info at:
theradius.us/
More on this 34th Disquiet Junto project at:
disquiet.com/2012/08/23/disquiet0034-theradius/
Tracklist
| 8. | Old Scratch | 4:32 |
Lyrics
Luke 10:18 (NCV)
Jesus said, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Revelation 12:9 (NKJV)
So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Isaiah 14:12-14 (NKJV)
“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
1 Peter 5:8 (NLT)
Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
Ephesians 6:11 (NKJV)
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Ephesians 4:27 (NIV1984)
and do not give the devil a foothold.
James 4:7 (NIV)
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Romans 16:20 (NIV)
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
Matthew 25:41 (ESV)
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Revelation 20:10 (KJV)
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Credits
License
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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.