It's Sticking Around & Worked In
Notes on "IT'S STICKING AROUND & WORKED IN"
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YouTube (with notation video): https://youtu.be/cpB3bt5ANf4
This track was written down as the would-be opening number of a fictional FURICO concert.
The drumless section at the beginning and the section starting from the fill of the drum were created as separate tracks.
Also, we have been influenced by the flow from the first song to the second of the 1982 album “What Me Worry?” by Yukihiro Takahashi (Yellow Magic Orchestra at that time).
The first and second tracks were connected and written in MuseScore (notation software) at the same time, but after moving the data to Studio One software, the sound was set as separate tracks and mixed.
At the beginning of the fictional concert, while the first track is playing, the members are placed in the dark. Flowing into the second track, lighting and beats start vigorously. The excitement at that time. This was the first concept.
The rhythm is patternless as usual. By combining quarter notes and eighth notes, each part has a different combination and arranged so that those do not sound at the same timings through all measures.
All percussion sounds are samples of life sounds* and human beat boxes by TM.
* It’s quite funny that the materials used for these life sounds are so gorgeous (eg, the door lock sound of a very expensive car), though it doesn't spend any money on instrument or Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) :)
This is the actual first track that we would play live at the concert, which shows FURICO's uniqueness at the beginning of the live performance. The beat is clear, but it's cool to continue with minimalism.
The top quality feels gorgeous. An image where all members make sounds simultaneously. There, our adrenaline comes out when it plays more digitally than live as such. Simply groovy, the coolness of reasoning. But behind the scenes.
* Digital funk + centerless, meaning that there is a FURICO like harmony + polyrhythm (and some dyads) overflowing with fun (including some humor).
In the production, it was difficult to arrange and select the tone because of how to express the double contradiction that “the live performance does not look like a live performance (but is not programmed).
The most elaborate musical note is the middle string phrase. We referred to Herbie Hancock's “Speak Like a Child,” though it's totally different :)
It combines 7 types of parts. Since it has increased too much when combined with the whole parts, we wrote a musical score for strings separately.
Sounds that can be recognized as live instruments do not look like live performances, but are mixed so that the programmed sounds can be heard like live performances.
The bass range is BD with four bass parts, and a heavy bass per 20Hz is added to them, but they are arranged so that they do not interfere. (The same band does not come out at the same time.)
The bands to be emphasized and the panning are arranged differently even in the same range.
We do not currently assume playing musical instruments on FURICO tracks.
In addition, the quality and number of sampled sound sources of live musical instruments is limited.
In such a situation, there is a limit in devising “programming like live music”.
And programmed music and patterned rhythm phrase music have many interesting things because they are patterned, but someone has already done that,We don't have to create it because we can listen to it with high quality.
There isn't much programmed music that isn't a live instrument and it's not patterned, and we want to hear more about it.
This track was written down as the would-be opening number of a fictional FURICO concert.
The drumless section at the beginning and the section starting from the fill of the drum were created as separate tracks.
Also, we have been influenced by the flow from the first song to the second of the 1982 album “What Me Worry?” by Yukihiro Takahashi (Yellow Magic Orchestra at that time).
The first and second tracks were connected and written in MuseScore (notation software) at the same time, but after moving the data to Studio One software, the sound was set as separate tracks and mixed.
[The First Track]
At the beginning of the fictional concert, while the first track is playing, the members are placed in the dark. Flowing into the second track, lighting and beats start vigorously. The excitement at that time. This was the first concept.
The rhythm is patternless as usual. By combining quarter notes and eighth notes, each part has a different combination and arranged so that those do not sound at the same timings through all measures.
All percussion sounds are samples of life sounds* and human beat boxes by TM.
* It’s quite funny that the materials used for these life sounds are so gorgeous (eg, the door lock sound of a very expensive car), though it doesn't spend any money on instrument or Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) :)
[The Second Track]
This is the actual first track that we would play live at the concert, which shows FURICO's uniqueness at the beginning of the live performance. The beat is clear, but it's cool to continue with minimalism.
The top quality feels gorgeous. An image where all members make sounds simultaneously. There, our adrenaline comes out when it plays more digitally than live as such. Simply groovy, the coolness of reasoning. But behind the scenes.
* Digital funk + centerless, meaning that there is a FURICO like harmony + polyrhythm (and some dyads) overflowing with fun (including some humor).
[Production]
In the production, it was difficult to arrange and select the tone because of how to express the double contradiction that “the live performance does not look like a live performance (but is not programmed).
The most elaborate musical note is the middle string phrase. We referred to Herbie Hancock's “Speak Like a Child,” though it's totally different :)
It combines 7 types of parts. Since it has increased too much when combined with the whole parts, we wrote a musical score for strings separately.
Sounds that can be recognized as live instruments do not look like live performances, but are mixed so that the programmed sounds can be heard like live performances.
The bass range is BD with four bass parts, and a heavy bass per 20Hz is added to them, but they are arranged so that they do not interfere. (The same band does not come out at the same time.)
The bands to be emphasized and the panning are arranged differently even in the same range.
We do not currently assume playing musical instruments on FURICO tracks.
In addition, the quality and number of sampled sound sources of live musical instruments is limited.
In such a situation, there is a limit in devising “programming like live music”.
And programmed music and patterned rhythm phrase music have many interesting things because they are patterned, but someone has already done that,We don't have to create it because we can listen to it with high quality.
There isn't much programmed music that isn't a live instrument and it's not patterned, and we want to hear more about it.