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Remove The Stain

from electrochristianmeditation by Jim Hanks

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This project started out as a submission for Disquiet Junto Project 0041: Dirty Minimalism.

The restrictions were to create a piece that exhibits "minimalism", sounds "dirty", and does not use the human voice.

For the minimalism part, this piece probably still has too much activity for most people's definition of that term, but it is very bare for my usual. The bpm is only 40 and there are only 8 tracks total. 5 tracks were assembled in the Mixtikl app on the iPad and 3 were added in the Meteor Mutitrack recorder app which was also used to mix and "master" the piece. Also the Gospel doesn't get much more minimal than these two phrases from Psalm 51:9-10 that speak of repentance and redemption in just 14 words.

For the dirty part, I made liberal use of distortion FX in Mixtikl. The vocals originated with the vox3000 app (not human so still technically legal :-) ) then got drug through the Voice Synth app and further roughed up in Meteor. Two of the 2 of the tracks added in Meteor were samples taken from a recording of my washing machine (so physical stain removal went into the making of this piece that speaks of spiritual stain removal. ;-) ) although the samples were not treated at all except for pan/volume.

For this final version, I added two EWI tracks - a bass and a tinkly "lead" - just to fill out the frequency spectrum a bit.

lyrics

Remove the stain of my guilt.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Psalm 51:9b-10 a(New Living Translation)

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from electrochristianmeditation, released July 17, 2013
track image : www.sxc.hu/photo/1018485

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I like many styles of music but most of my own productions tend towards jazz with electronic elements. I play the Akai EWI4000s electric wind instrument, ukuleles, guileles, NAF, whistle, recorders, harmonicas, and various software instruments on Windows and iOS. ... more

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