Vista At Landing
Notes On “Vista At Landing”
YouTube: https://youtu.be/GCU-Csz4q68
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/vista-take-off
(TM writes:)
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TWO VERSIONS
“Vista At Landing” is the within-Ambient version I mentioned in the notes on “Vista At Takeoff.”
“Vista At Takeoff”
YouTube: https://youtu.be/MHL85jNZKeA
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/vista-take-off
Notes: https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/notes-on-vista-at-takeofflanding-in.html
In short, Takeoff is to develop the polyrhythm motif (with many scale shifts) of atonal dyads “out of the Ambient,” while Landing is to create what we believe is Ambient music with such eccentric features as high speed and atonal. Takeoff and Landing have the same phrases but are different music.
But both versions in common have been made to show beauty. As I wrote in the Takeoff notes, it’s very, very challenging to enable atonal music to have it. That is what we have tried in these two, and we believe we have succeeded. In conclusion, dyads have huge possibilities to make atonal music “beautiful.”
(For more details, see Notes on Vista At Takeoff.)
Vista At Landing is in the “Planet Series”
This is the third track in the “Planet Series,” which follows “Pluto” and “Mercury.” This track symbolises the Earth.
"Pluto"
(SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/pluto )
Mercury
(SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/mercury )
Unlike Mercury, we had no intention to make this track in the Series at the beginning. But in the process, I used the analogy of the Earth’s history for each section. The first section is the Earth’s first several hundred million years, which I called the “Primitive Atmosphere” era. I don’t mean the first section expresses it, but mean that our arranging/mixing policies for each section in parallel with the history.
From the introduction to the end, the policy is like this:
1. PRIMITIVE ATMOSPHERE
2. PRIMITIVE OCEANS
3. BACTERIA & PHOTOSYNTHESIS
4. ICE AGE
5. OXYGEN
6. MULTICELLULAR LIVES
7. SUPERCONTINENTS
8. ICE AGE
9. CAMBRIAN
10. DINOSAURS
11. PRIMATES
Ice Ages newly added
The Ice Ages (4 and 8) have been newly added sections that “Vista At Takeoff” does not have. There, we exploited a chord sequence typical in the Easy Listening with “geometric” strings arrangement wielding mainly two series of dyads.
(Original score for the Ice Ages)
By the way, the range hood sound is used again in a completely different way. (See Notes on “Things Are Unstable.”)
We also talked about inspiration from David Sylvian’s album “Brilliant Trees” released in 1984, from Michael Nyman, from H. M. Górecki, and so on.
（TI writes:)
MIXING WORK
The arrangement on MuseScore for this song was almost entirely done by TM. I was dedicated to mixing. The mixing work itself was very fun and at the same time a sensitive thing.
There is also a concept of "a song that we have never heard before, yet we want to listen to ourselves." There is no reference music for our music. The individual parts do not have specific roles, and the sounds are complex and the balance that seems best is different on the fly.
When mixing, I could hold my breath and focus on the work, as if it was a mechanical watch assembly or a very difficult surgery.
This song is not Takeoff's remix or re-model, but it's a completely separate song.
However, at first I was conscious of a live-play-like mix that emphasized the instrumental sounds more in contrast to "Takeoff".
By presenting the theme of TM's "Earth", I realized that I would not use Sinewave, which is the root of all the sounds, or just an ambient, Post-Classical Music, regardless of the acoustic instrument.
"How to handle reverb" was very difficult in technical terms. Especially in this song, reverb is used extensively, but there are many cases in which the reverbs from each part interfere with each other, resulting in muddy reverberation, which also varies depending on the location of the song, so a unified setting can not be made.
The reverb settings are changed in each place, and various processing is applied not only to the instrument sound but also to the reverberation part.