Voices #17
◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
here we got:
lebenerde
answering some questions. We have already observed his ambient / electronic / noise / drone work here.
[1. IDEA]
■ The A. O.: The track from “d | d | d” that we prefer is “distanz”. Can you tell us how it came to light?
► lebenerde: I was preparing for an upcoming music theory exam and had to learn chord names lol.
I used an old Yamaha keyboard to play along with the example chords and then I had these two chords that I really liked. Somehow I forgot the exam and just ended up in Ableton, throwing the Yamaha sounds in a granulator and then started just adding effects to find timbres and textures I like.
I wanted to have this degradation of sound quality over time and really did not want to hurry with it and just let it take its time. That’s true for all three songs on this EP actually. I never made tracks this long before. I think it’s because I thought that nobody would listen to something this long but I figured that’s stupid. The duration allows you to just be in it.
[2. CREATION]
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