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Uncle Dave Lewis: Dead Bird No. 2 3-31-08
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March 31, 2008 09:22 PM PDT
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WARNING! This is not radio; this is an original, avant-ambient classical composition, and is not for all tastes. I haven't done a radio show in awhile, and I decided this electronic piece is long enough to be a "Podcast" of a kind.
While hunting around in my audio files to remind myself of what I had done lately, I came upon two short samples for the piece “Dead Bird No. 2,” dated 3/14. As it was the last day of the month, I decided to finish the piece rather than to continue writing this. I finished it literally between ordering and picking up a pizza, plus emptied a bag of garbage during – it took me longer to collect the two samples used as the source.

Basic formula: Two Mono source loops of organ music, remixed into four channels. First two channels in identical phase, the third makes an interrupted entrance at about the fifth note in the identical pattern, with the fourth shortly behind the third. First loop is overlapped with the second briefly through replacing the first two identical tracks at about 3 minutes. Pan channels 1-2 about three quarters of the way out on either side, with channels 3-4 remaining dead center.
I think the introductory material – the first loop - is pleasant, but inferior to the second section, which is pretty exciting. It a series of augmented chords, and as they pull apart and recombine the chords in the outside of the picture is effected by the two tracks in the center, making different chord cycles, intersecting in various sections of the loop. In the mp3 I have added the source samples at the beginning, separated by an exact second of silence, so that the listener can see what I mean. There’s a bigass, 19 seconds long delay on the whole thing. I love the ending; it’s just the spent signal in the delay dying away for a long time.
Thanks for reading this far. Enjoy it, although to some this might be one of those “Uncle Dave – you lost me…” kind of pieces. It is very slow and VERY repetitive; don’t feel bad if you have to ditch after five minutes. Concentration IS rewarded; this piece is dedicated to fellow Podcastor Belinda Subramin. Length: 9 minutes, 8 sec.