Bad Henkings
29 July 2010 Filed in: Music

Listen to Bad Henkings
This song is a collaboration among Alister Flint, Chris Vaisvil and me.
The title is an anagram but I will not reveal the source.
The image has some obscure reference to the song, so cryptic I forgot about that.
Chris posted an initial file that I mangled beyond recognition with Metasynth, Alister disfigured it even more adding effects, drums, percussions.
I then added the trumpet part (thanks to Camel Audio Alchemy) that, of course, uses the Carlos Gamma tuning system. Chris’s file was microtonal too but using a different tuning system (its name has something to do with the title so I will not tell you anything about it). Alister used one more tuning system so the tune is definitely poly-microtonal! Al then added voices so that the final piece sounds like a band from some unknown planet playing at a Martian cosmodrome while aliens wait to embark for their galactic journeys.
I hope you enjoy the trip!
C. L. commented:
What is going on with the stereo image here? Come clean, it is shrinking my head! I'm guessing it's in Alister's part.
Henk Badings, no doubt.
Listen to Bad Henkings
This song is a collaboration among Alister Flint, Chris Vaisvil and me.
The title is an anagram but I will not reveal the source.
The image has some obscure reference to the song, so cryptic I forgot about that.
Chris posted an initial file that I mangled beyond recognition with Metasynth, Alister disfigured it even more adding effects, drums, percussions.
I then added the trumpet part (thanks to Camel Audio Alchemy) that, of course, uses the Carlos Gamma tuning system. Chris’s file was microtonal too but using a different tuning system (its name has something to do with the title so I will not tell you anything about it). Alister used one more tuning system so the tune is definitely poly-microtonal! Al then added voices so that the final piece sounds like a band from some unknown planet playing at a Martian cosmodrome while aliens wait to embark for their galactic journeys.
I hope you enjoy the trip!
C. L. commented:
What is going on with the stereo image here? Come clean, it is shrinking my head! I'm guessing it's in Alister's part.
Henk Badings, no doubt.