i feel from i feel by Swircle 987

The non-percussion sounds were all created with the Behringer Crave, with some help from Strymon's Big Sky. In fact, the same patching of the Crave was used to create all of the sounds of this piece.

The first three sections were made in the order of their respective sound creations. Notably, each of these first three sections was created using variations of a particular parameter setting, specific to each section.

The 4th section is a reprise of the transitions, only over the beat of the 2nd section. Each of the transitions were also made with the Crave, although the mix knob on the Big Sky was on high. The 5th section is, of course, re-instantiation of the 1st section.

The vocals were sung through the Behringer VC340 vocoder, using midi commands for the frequencies, then processed through the Big Sky as well. 10 takes were taken for each occurrence, then spread through the stereo spectrum.

Further reverb was supplied by the Fruity Reverb 3 and Rob Papen's RP-Verb VSTs. Aside from a light handed compression and a touch of saturation, no other effects were used.

Note that the mastering was done with a mind to maintaining the overall dynamics of the piece, i.e. not crushing it with excessive compression, etc. That said, through meticulous production and mixing, a general balance of frequency distributions is maintained, so crank it up till it hurts, then take it down a notch. ^_~

Also, this piece is produced using a hi-res a 24-bit bit rate and 96 kHz sampling rate, so I highly recommend enjoying it through your best audiophile headphones or speakers. ~_~

As for the semantics of this piece, I envision it as a sentient robot expressing its feelings. In fact, I prefer to think of this piece as "Robot A Capella," so "Robopella" perhaps? ^_^

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1.	i feel	7:53

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i feel

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from i feel, released January 11, 2020

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