Ethno-Electro video

This is my final project for MUS-Z361 Description: My final project was largely motivated by another course that I am currently enrolled in entitled "Music in Religious Thought and Experience." In this class we covered both tantric Buddhist music in Indonesia, specifically gamelan ensambles, as well as religious manifestations in poplar music. I chose to try to combine these two concepts, drawing my inspiration from South and East Asian music (specifically gamelan, and traditions that utilize drone and overtones), as well as a mix of popular music genres such as dub, dance, electronica, hip-hop/trip-hop, soundtrack composition, video game composition, and dub-step. I also tried to reflect myself and my other various musical interests in this composition by augmenting the Asian and Western musical elements with West African rhythmic and melodic motifs. I completed the majority of my work in Digital Performer. All of the music, with exception of the Hip Hop Kit, was played by me in real time on the Triton Keyboard. The drum track was created using the "drum" tab on Digital Performer My instrumentation was as follows: Hip Hop Kit Bali Gamelan (x3) Detuned Saw Ravelian Pad Glass Bell Bright (x3) Dark Jazz Organ Vibraphone Reason--Combinator--Thor Polysonic Synthesizer with Init Patch (x2) I created a "wobbly bass" sound by combining two Thor synths through a Combinator. I set the first Thor to include 2 analog oscillators (with different wave shapes) and 1 multi oscillator ...