JKT071 - F.A.C.T.

JeffMinute071: F.A.C.T.


Yesterday woke up and tried making a minute without any real input as to how it sounded - a minute that would only reveal itself upon its first listen. First mouseclicked a very simple melody into Reason, then recorded this as a loop to ableton.

Asked Iwan for a 4-letter word, he was good enough to provide me with FACT. Then used this word to provide the framework for the construction of the minute.

1. created 4 tracks, each representing one of the letters. Kept midi notes the same for all 4 tracks.
2. Loaded semi-random presets in reason for each track. Name of the Reason preset for 1st track started with an F, 2nd with an A etc.
3. Recorded each track to Ableton one by one, changing the bpm during recording according to each letter - the F track at 60bpm (F=6th letter of alphabet), A track at 10bpm etc.
4. T track looped at original speed, C track slowed down 2x, A track slowed down 4x, F track slowed down 8x.
5. Applied different reverb effects to each track, reverb presets also beginning with the letters F, A, C and T.
6. Listened to that shit. Nicely surprised!