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Who Is It You're Looking For?

from electrochristianmeditation by Jim Hanks

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This is my submission to Macrocosm's Remix Competition: soundcloud.com/macrocosm/sets/remix-parts/

Technical Details:
I used all the stems in one form or another but transformed to various degrees. The tempo on all stems was increased from 120 to 138 using Loopy HD on the iPad.Then the loops were pulled into NanoStudio for the main production. The "synth1" stem got the most treatment as I extracted notes from it and resequenced these "stabs" into another parts.

I added lots of other parts in NanoStudio including Eden bass from app-sounds Synth Garden, drums from app-sounds Synthetik Kits, my own Eden electric piano patch, and of course EWI leads. The EWI was recorded into Meteor, copied to Loopy, ran through JamUp Pro and back into Loopy via AudioBus, then finally copied back to NanoStudio. (I tried to use Meteor and JamUp in Audiobus directly but I guess my iPad 2 isn't powerful enough for that setup as I got lots of audio glitches - bummer.) Both the elctric guitar and "flute" came from the same EWI patch but effected very differently in JamUp.

From a music theory perspective, the original chord progression was pretty much root-five chords: B5 Db5 Eb5 Ab5. I stuck to that but jazzed up the progression in Chordbot - more like Bmaj7 Dbmin7 Eb7sus4 Absus4 for the bossa nova section in the middle. The lead lines mostly stuck to a pentatonic major scale with some forays into Lydian.

Lyrically, I did a Biblical word study on the phrase "looking for" and pieced together the lyric from various texts. I thought it was pretty neat that one of the references ended up being John 1:38 and I had selected the tempo of 138 long before that.

lyrics

John the Baptist:
Who do you suppose I am? I am not the one you are looking for. But there is one coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. (Acts 13:25, NIV)

Jesus:
What are you looking for? (John 1:38, HCSB)

John's Disciples:
Are you the one we should be looking for? Or must we wait for someone else? (Luke 7:19, CEV)

Jesus:
Go and tell [John] what you have seen and heard. Blind people are now able to see, and the lame can walk. People who have leprosy are being healed, and the deaf can now hear. The dead are raised to life, and the poor are hearing the good news. (Luke 7:22, CEV)

Jesus:
Who is it you’re looking for? (John 18:4, HCSB)

Judas Detachment:
Jesus of Nazareth (John 18:4, NKJV)

Jesus:
I AM He (John 18:5, HCSB)

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from electrochristianmeditation, released July 17, 2013
track image : www.sxc.hu/photo/921297

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Jim Hanks Raleigh

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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