“I was just toying around with an ultra basic [Native Instruments] Lazerbass patch. It can be what sounds sort of FM [synthesis]-y, but you can add too many beating layers to it and end up with this kind of pretty atonal sound. Because that’s on a dial, you’ve got something harmonic on one side and something sort of percussive on another side. And then if you start messing with octaves and other things–so that already not only is that ‘extreme’ or ‘fun’ synthesis–it has a musical goal inherent in it.
Suddenly I’ve got one sound that could either be a baseline or, like I said, be percussive or this atonal thing. And you’ve got a dial that goes between those two points. So there’s already a whole composition exercise or sound design tool suggested.
It’s like limiting yourself, or going between full freedom and then, once you’ve isolated something really interesting, limiting yourself to that so you can look directly at it and then moving on to something else. That’s how my brain works with these.”
A.G. Cook, Tape Notes
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