Lo_Fi sounds seem to be happening all around the music industry these days. Circuit bending is one technique that many people seem to have become enamored with. I admit, it is fascinating to see people crack open children’s pianos and other assorted electronic toys and tinker with them to make them do things they were never designed to do. Overall, it never really has interested me to try this and add it to my music however; I have been inspired by some Richard Devine pieces as well as the recently released Steven Jansen album Slope.
I took some of this inspiration and used my old digital voice recorder that I would use when I taped lectures in class. Yes, the device is digital but within that realm, it is what I call lo-fi digital. At the high quality setting, it records at 44.1 kHz and only in mono. The frequency range is between 100 – 12,000 Hz in HQ mode. This means that I still get some fluttering noises in the higher frequencies, which produces some nice artifacts depending on what you are shooting for.
Beginning in January, you will hear the results of my samples produced through this with the release called Concrete & Ice. All I can say is, it is quite different from what I’ve done before but it retains the essence of Small Dot Complex.
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