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Michel Banabila
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Album NL 2016 on Tapu Records label
Electronic and Classical (Contemporary)

On Tiny Elements I played a few simple melodies and chords with sine tones, with lots of spaces in between, using a sampler without samples loaded. I invited Oene van Geel to play the chords and melodies on the viola and I asked Keimpe de Jong to play some lines on clarinets. The other 3 tracks are basically made from this first track. On Drawing with Closed Eyes I sampled parts from track 1, and pitched these down with a sampler. Drawing with closed eyes is a game I enjoy playing with my daughter. It's exciting to see what we come up with, never knowing exactly what images will reveal themselves ;-) Doing track 2 with the sampler felt a bit the same, since I cannot read or write notes and had no clue what I was actually doing. Just trusted my ears to find the combinations of chords that would go nicely together. So one mix was a fifth lower and one mix was an octave lower. I placed these two lowered files below the original in Logic and subsequently composed the track by cutting from all three files. I added sounds on the melodica again and asked Keimpe to play saxonett and Ilya Ziblat Shay to play sound effects on contrabass. Deep Dream is track 2 treated with Michael Norris software. Then I transposed the whole track lower again, using a sampler. After that I took an improvisation by Oene van Geel, originally played on track 1, tuned it down and mixed it together with this track. For Audio to Midi I asked Radboud Mens to use Ableton Live to transform the audio from track 2 into midi notes, as I was curious about the info of the lowered chords from the sampler. But the mix was to complex and the result of the midi notes sounded a bit weird. However, these midi notes played by piano samples on higher speed, using an extremely short decay inspired me to make one last track with it. Finally I added some field recording and melodica sounds.

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	Michel Banabila , *1961 NL sampler, melodica, arranged by, composed by, recorded by, album by
	Oene Van Geel vl, vn, *1973 arranged by, viola, violin
	Keimpe De Jong ss, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano clarinet, saxonett
	Ilya Ziblat Shay , contrabass
	Saka perc, edited by, melodyne
	Radboud Mens acg, p, NL edited by, izotope, technician, converting audio to midi

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