Family Trip
Notes on "FAMILY TRIP"
https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/familytrip
(TI)
Background of music production and image for music before production
I created this track completely by myself. (TM was busy or did not respond to sending the score.)
Initially it had a tentative title "Komagawa, Hanno, Nara". All of these are Japanese places, where I traveled with my family. There is no direct relationship with the song that was later released as "Life In Hanno".
By the way I like the sound of Boards Of Canada, but as you may know, they are artists with few works. So I wanted to create alternative music for me to listen to. And I wanted to create a more pronounced harmony voice than they did, and acoustically create somewhat a blurred sound image like them.
"Nostalgic rural landscape", "feeling like lukewarm water*” and the sound of "the 80s records” are exposed to the sun and decayed." This is also a type of sound that I wanted to listen to as an individual.
* It is also a song that was inspired when I was actually used to hot spring.
About composition
The departure point (a score like a note) of FURICO's music is not so different. It was created only by itself, without making it so much. (If it were made by two of FURICO, it would be a fancy thing by all means.) It has only about 5 parts, and it is shorter in time than the other songs of FURICO. It is a very simple thing even if it progresses in harmony.
The point common to FURICO's tracks is "not to use repetitions, not to return to the same place". As a musical experiment, it does not create a role in the part and tone, but is to play various roles by the scene. Therefore, there are also places where the bass (the lowest-pitched part of a musical tone) also functions as a lead part.
Although "environmental noise" flows through the whole track, this is a conversation with my family recorded on my smartphone when I actually went on a family trip. It is the sound of walking on the gravel road of the temple (Horyuji, Nara), the sound of the waterfall (Akame, Mie), and the sound of the train running.
About sound making
For this track, I used my first software synthesizer called Mai-Tai that came with Studio One. After a long time, I made the sound from scratch, but the operability and visibility of the software were good and I could use it smoothly.
In particular, while the software has a simple configuration, it has a high degree of freedom in patching, and can freely connect various oscillators and modulators, making it possible to create sounds with a feeling similar to a modular synthesizer.
For example, we could create an unstable atmosphere by setting the envelope change of pitch and duration separately for each oscillator. I think that it appears in the Pad sound and percussion-like SE.
About mixing
As for the mix, this song was just after I purchased DAW (Studio One 3.5), and I was not used to the functions and operations yet at the time.
I didn't talk to anyone about the music, so I created it alone, so I think it finished in about 2 days.