p: look, a cat! ... which way is it?
l: hmm?
p: this way?
l: i brought some money, what about you?
p: mhm. *unintelligible¨*
l: in real time?
p: yeah, in real time. *unintelligible*
l: yeah, i made that rack in like 5 hours. i don't know, i don't pay a lot of attention to the time. sometimes i make the rack and a couple of days later i sit down and i'm like "oh yeah, i made this", turn it on and start recording. so the real time recording time is the same amount of time as the track. and i did edit it in the end, because there were some transitions that were too long. i used live, but it was very little editing. then i mastered it and that's it. like 2 or 3 hours. but *unintelligible* i try not to think too much about it, i don't have a big studio or anything. i can only get to a certain point that way, so i use presets and modify them.
p: i'd have a really hard time finishing it and saying "yes. that's it. no more."
l: yeah, that's one of the hardest things. i have some songs from 2013, still trying to finish them. they're never finished, abandoned.
e: fresh bread, right here. hey! how are you?
l: very well! how are you?
e: hello lady. are you going to buy something?
l: yes, but you don't have ice cream, do you?
e: we do, in the back of the store we have some.
l: you do? great. but what kind of ice cream do you have?
e: i don't know, you'll have to see for yourself.
l: ....i don't know. sometimes it happens to me that i'm trying out something, like a new sequencer. i try to figure out how it works. with that sequencer in particular... do you know the tr303?
p: no
l: it's that classic acid synth. [makes bleep bloop noises]
p: oh yeah, i know which one you mean.
l: well it's easy to program slides with that sequencer. so i usually don't use slides in sequencers and i was trying that out. i liked the riff a lot, and you know, the song has the riff playing all the time. [sings the riff] and it's neither 8 bars or 16 bars, it doesn't repeat every other 4 bars, it creates a polyrhythm. so even though it's very repetitive.... hi there! since it's polyrhythmic it always sounds different with the 4 by 4. so you have this one part that's longer, and another one that's shorter and they're playing side by side. so they always come together in another way.
p: they're out of phase.
l: yeah. it's like that video synth stuff. when you have 2 waveforms that overlap, another waveform is created. so the polyrhythms and stuff... when you do that with a lot of waves, like with infinite waves, i think that creates our reality. a lot of waves that are superimposed. very low frequency waveforms, very high frequency waveforms and an infinite number of wavesforms in between. i think that way you can create an access to other realities... when you listen to a song, you plug into another kind of waveform, or different waveforms, different states... i don't what to use the word "energies", because it's so charged with esotericism. but in very physical terms...
p: there's a lot of variables, not just the one you compose.
l: yeah, it's a simplification.
i'm sure a lot of people know this one, but letting go of the hard edges of dance music never felt as good as this one. thanks sam.
also, watch the "utility" video, it's great. lukas kalmar
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