arbee

21:26 20th May 2012

aux nœuds [disquiet0020-nodebeat]

tried to keep it pretty instinctive. almost just a jam session with a mixdown.

I just did this simple loop-based thing on nodebeat. starts at 0:30 and goes till the end. destroyed the whole lot of it. but kept the dry version too. but everything comes from this 3:00 or so recording of nodebeat.

the other instrument is a single moog slim phatty.

This track employs the app NodeBeat, created by Seth Sandler, Justin Windle, and Laurence Muller. More information on NodeBeat at nodebeat.com.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info.

21:13 13th May 2012

Tags: disquiet junto arbee

mélange d’obligations [disquiet0019-rojiura]

First I have to admit that I didn’t even think about the weekly chalenge when the mail was sent. I usually have a part of my mind thinking about the challenge when Thursday arrives. Even worst, the email got lost in my spam folder (sorry Marc, I did recieved the other mails in my regular inbox, though).

This week was a really intense and emotional week for me. I was feeling sad all week because my favorite co-worker, a lovely and friendly person I would have love to keep near me, had to go away… This was in my mind all week and gave me all sorts of nostalgic emotions. On the other side, I also had in mind the birthday of my 3 years-old son that was on saturday may 12th. Everything that had to do with the birthday was so joyfull. I had these mixed emotions all week.

When I finally found the « lost » disquiet junto mail on saturday night, I thought the picture was just perfect to explain my emotions of the past few days. The darkness of the walls, displaying the sadness of the loss of a loved person. The light at the center displaying my postive and bright weekend with all of my close family.

To represent all of this with sounds, I’ve decided to first work with a field recording of a similar dark road / building situation in downtown Québec city. I then, tried to show both of the positive and negative emotions using all sorts of musical elements. Mostly using a simple nostalgic pad pattern for the sadness and some simple piano notes heavily processed to show the exciting birthday party of my lil’ son.

To keep it fairly instinctive and not too mathematical, I did the track really quickly and out-of-nowhere using the field recording. In retrospect, the track itself isn’t really mindblowing, the concept might be actually stronger than the piece of music itself.

While reading all of this you might have realised that english isn’t my primary language. I do hope that you did understand what I tried to tell you with all of this.

21:10 9th May 2012

Tags: remix jonas the plugexpert

Jonas The Plugexpert - Rijswijk Beat (arbee remix)

Let me present a new remix I’ve just finished. It’s a track from the talented Jonas The Plugexpert. It’s actually from a nice free album he recently released on Upitup Records called “Los”. The track is called “Rijswijk Beat” and I’ve twisted it in a more ambient/downtempo way. I hope you’ll like it !

More info about Jonas The Plugexpert can be found here:
http://plugexpert.bandcamp.com/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jonas+The+Plugexpert
plugexpert

19:05 2nd May 2012

Notes: 1

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My new friend

12:30 9th Apr 2012

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kawai sx210 (Pris avec instagram)

09:54 31st Mar 2012

Tags: disquiet junto

disquiet junto #13: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a [arbee rework]

I knew I wouldn’t have much time to work on this week’s challenge a lot this weekend. I took like 2 and a half hour late late last night to make up something.

Took a few loops and processed them using few effects and personal tricks.

It is not perfect… but still, here is my submission for the 13th disquiet junto.

This week’s challenge was to rework a recording of the chamber-music ensemble named “wild Up”. It is the Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a, by Dimitri Shostakovich.

Thanks a lot to wild Up for sharing these files with us for this challenge !