Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Clock in a Moonlit Night

Written and Recorded in 1991

An eight-minute-long instrumental tune I wrote in early autumn in 1991, which consists of only a couple of chords. Initially, it was started as an experimental recording of a built-in tone I found in my digital synthesizer, which provides the programmed beat in a fixed rhythm with the tone of Timpani, while you are holding any key. I first recorded this rhythm section in stereo, into my multitrack recorder, and later added some sound effects by making use of various pedals designed for the electric guitar.
Creation of this tune coincided with a voluntary holiday I took for about a couple of weeks from a horrible labour work and I spent one of those days for visiting an art gallery to see an exhibition of Salvador Dali with one of my lady friends at that time. There was also another day I spent for a night out that involved another lady friend during that period and when the holiday came close to its end, I wrote the musical elements of this tune and recorded each instrument on top of the experimental rhythmic tracks. I also wrote lyrics for filling the sequence before the piano solo starts, which was filled with impressions taken from some incidents relating to my lady friends and Dali’s clock themed artworks.

In this video edition, the audio track was remixed from the original master and my voice parts are all carefully removed, so that I could bury my silly words that belong to the long gone past.  

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