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The Visitor From Afar

from Old's Cool by Jim Hanks

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"Who is that ornately robed stranger? Does anyone know where he is from? He looks a bit strange, but he's a very elegant dancer, don't you think?"

So read the program notes for Victor's Eijkhout's composition "The Visitor from Afar", part of a larger neo-renaissance work called The Courtly Suite (imslp.org/wiki/The_Courtly_Suite_%28Eijkhout,_Victor%29). Originally written for "pentatonic instrument and two bass recorders", it has been reinterpreted here for 3-part EWI and electronics.

Technical details: This is my second project realized (almost) entirely on the Apple iPad 2. Unlike my first project (Blip's Blues: jimhanks.bandcamp.com/track/blips-blues) which was entirely in the NanoStudio app and featured MIDI-controlled EWI patches, this project used the EWI's internal synth (patches were Akai's "Woodwind" for the lead and Patchman's "Bass Clarinet" for both harmonies [and a solo]). To give a sense of "afar-ness", the percussion kit was constructed from hits from sampleswap.org's "Arabian Percussion" folders. Also the main pad sound is my attempt at a "synth sitar" in NanoStudio's Eden.

The EWI tracks were recorded into the Meteor Multi Track Recorder app with the backing instruments coming from NanoStudio. Mixing happened in both apps, but with NanoStudio exported to two tracks in Metor, and the final mix andmastering done in Meteor. For more details on this experience see here: jimhanksmusic.com/ipad.html#ewi_meteor
(Later, I had to re-master in Record to get the overall level up to the other tracks in Old's Cool.)

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from Old's Cool, released September 5, 2011
Composer: Victor Eijkhout, www.eijkhout.net
Sound design: Matt Traum, Akai, Matt Borstel, Jim Hanks
Samples: sampleswap.org
Track image: Amanda Rynes, www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=797979

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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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