“I kind of see [arrangement] as a bit of a story with repeating phrases. And every time you tell the phrase again you’re telling it in a slightly different way so it feels like you’re getting to know the story deeper and deeper and deeper. I like to do that by repeating sections but when you repeat you change them slightly, or add in some new layers. Another way I like to do that is […] make different parameters on plug-ins, or using returns, so that repeated sounds feel like they’re evolving. It’s very subtle. But you can feel when all the sounds are changing and evolving and moving: it feels like they’re alive. And I’m more wanting the music to sound like it’s evolving. And so automating a lot of parameters on plug-ins, the track volumes, using a lot of [effect] returns[…] These are all going down to different delays, different reverbs that are EQ’d differently–all the kinds of different sounds that can make sounds sound like they’re in different spaces. How do I make an arrangement feel like it’s telling a deeper and deeper and deeper story? How does it feel like a journey?”
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