This was a fun one. I decided to take inspiration from Pete's Day 16 piece...
In a most Death by Deathray fashion, I took the word "xenophobe" and simply typed it using GarageBand's keyboard (as in a typing keyboard) input. It was completely serendipitous that the "x" key shifts the keyboard up an octave, so every time the word was typed, the whole thing went up. I skipped the "x" key on my first pass, so I could play as low as possible and get higher each time after that. Once the keyboard reached its highest register, I played one more sequence and stopped playing. The "n" and "b" keys do nothing in GarageBand, so there are nice little pauses. One other detail: before I recorded anything, I semi-randomly selected nine keyboard sounds (one for each letter in "xenophobe"), picked one of my favorite sounds ("Falling Star"), and recorded it with that sound active. Once the recording was finished (in one take), I simply copied the sequence track into all of the other tracks and let the computer play them all simultaneously.
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I'm loving the process here. A very cool piece.
Ah Death by Deathray. I remember that band. Didn't you do a piece called Carcassone?
@Cam:
Sort of. We did a song (the first on the album) that was, on a musical level, in homage to the discussion that created the band, which was held over a game of Carcassonne. The song is called "fx(1,4)"--shorthand for the date of the discussion (February 1, 2004). The song was constructed using the word "carcassonne" as the basis for the notes being played--a musical calque, if you will.
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