Drown Radio – Me Geek Pretty One Day

When constructing music using circuit bent instruments, I tend to spend 10 minutes improvising to a click track then combing over the resulting audio and extracting the most interesting moments to be later chopped and sequenced in Reason. Basically, I’m the enemy of the “purest” bending community. My goal isn’t to make deconstructionist audio collages, but rather to take these little unpredictable sounds and turn them into something catchy. I want to get a glitch stuck in your head, that’s it.
Even when my music strays into experimental territory, as it did in Bentstrument Guitar (off of Atomic Bros VS Drown Radio), the process was still the same. Improvise, record, chop, sequence, publish.
This morning I tried to do something slightly different, instead of chopping up the audio, I decided to construct an atmospheric song using 3 tracks. Although you may still hear chunks of this audio sampled in future works, this is technically my first “organic”, or non-sequenced, circuit bent song. I’ve embedded the song below, but you can grab the mp3 or wav files too. I am offering this song up to other musicians to chop up and use, all that I ask in return is credit (with a link back) and that you post any resulting songs built from this song in the comments section below.

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