Cinematique music and live recording tips

Cinematique music on synths, with performance notes.

Here's another take on live composition/improvisation using a complex synth setup.

The video shows the recording of the music for the Norwegian/Belgian artists Tone Aanderaa's new video "Melan­choly of an Odal­isque". It is an edited version (for time) - full version bellow.

The video has "peformance notes" that explains what is going on and how the setup works for this track. Hope it can inspire some new ideas or atleast be nice to listen to.

Here is a brief description in writing:


String sounds:

I use two layered string sounds. The first is the string sound from the digital piano I play on, the yamahy P-90, and the second is coming from a "Kurzweil Micropiano" module. The Kurzweil is transposed an octave up relative o the P-90 to give it a broader and more orchestral sound. If you follow the "performance notes" in the vid you will notice that I am using volumepedals to fade the sounds in and out and mix them to create crescendos and a general dynamic waves and expression. I allways liked the Kurzweil strings - they feel very "authentic" to me. And the strings in the P-90 are very playable and responsive.

But I think thee are two factors that are more important.

1. The weigthed keys of the P-90 lallows me to much more acurately conteoll the dynamics of the sounds than had I played it on a keyboard with "normal" synth keys. That is definitly important. To play on a keyboard that you feel responds like you expect it to.

Whatever instrument or sound you play you must learn to play THAT sound and THAT synth. What I mean is that the string sounds here work well becuase I play what makes them sound good. Had I gone in another direction it would not have worked. I feel that synths can take you anywhere musical - but each synth and each sound is only really expressive and musical within a rather limited area. So playing WITH the string sound and sticking to what works for that sound is more improtant than from wich keyboard or module the sound comes, I think.


The rest of the Sounds:

Synth Oboe, Korg 01w/fd

Bells arp. (faded in and out using volumepedal): Korg N5

Sea Wave sound (faded in and out using volumepedals).: Alesis Micron,

Extra controller:

Rolans Jx-10 functioning as extra midi controller to trigger the string sounds from the Kurzweil module alone.

All is also more or less decsribed in the video:)

Hope you enjoy it.

Nicky


Performance note version:




Full Version:




Her er musikken sammen med billederne:


Melancholy of an Odalisque

Tone Aanderaa | Myspace Video