New Release

[Tony Scharf]

Thank you very much for the kind words, Romain!  It means a lot, particularly since this is the first release I’ve done that’s really felt like what I wanted it to be.  

What is my writing process….thats an interesting question.   I can say that it always starts with exploring some piece of equipment or playing with a sound that I recorded with my field recorder.  Sometimes it will be a long improvisation on the modular or some other long piece of audio that I’ve created through the Axe FXIII (guitarists should not have all the fun!  This thing is amazing!).   I’ll process and play with it until I kind of hear something in my head that tells me what direction to go into.  

On this album, different songs started different ways.   The first track, for instance, was started 8 years ago(!) when I had an Arturia Origin in the studio.  I recorded a long drone piece of myself just playing with the UI (It’s still the best UI i’ve dealt with on a hardware synth.  I’d love to get one again, but prices are kind of crazy on them).   That sat on my hard drive for maybe 4 years, and then one day I loaded into Reason just because I found it again.  Thats when I added the drums and processing.  it just kind of fell together.  Then it sat for another few years until I thought it may fit with the album concept I was working on. It was the perfect intro.

The other 4 songs came about much, much faster.   Stelliforous (meaning full of stars) came about first, actually.  It started off when Pigments 2 update was released and I was really digging into creating some sounds on it.   It kind of turns into an analog v.s. digital competition as the song is about half software and half hardware.   The Behringer Neutron filled out the song.  

I think my favorite of them was the last one, though.   I’d recently reacquired the DSI Pro 2 and the day I got it, was the day I recorded the backbone track to that song as a long, one note modulation experiment.   That one fell together in about a day after that.  The other sounds just kinda came to me and I put them there. 

It’s interesting, really.  There was a time when getting the sounds out of my head and into the world was a problem.   Now, that’s never the problem.  If anything, it’s having the time to sit down and do that work of giving form to the work that’s always buzzing in my head.  Well, that and trying to mix for an audience with two ears when you’ve only got one…

Tony


> On May 31, 2020, at 6:32 AM, Romain Xavier <xtechcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tony,
> I listened to your songs, 
> I think the articulations  between the sounds in the tracks are smooth and very well made, they are dark but not too much as I like. 
> 
> I think it’s very cool that SomaFm is supporting you, it s rewarded for a work like yours imo, so really big congrats !!
> 
> Can you describe a bit your recording process cause I am always curious  ?
> 
> Do you record the entire song in one take or do you record the song ideas structure first and then add more parts, more  Fx and ear candies at the Editing/ Mixing stage  ?
> 
> All in all, I saw myself taking some notes on paper about how you put layers of sounds on eachother cause
> I  think the challenge for this type of music is to stay structured, trying to stay in control which seems easy but in facts it is not always the case.
> And even faking it is not easy …
>  
> In other words your sound/noise/Fx/Ear Candies/Negentropy/Entropy ratio in your music is quite at top quality.( even if you can always better, I am sure:) 
> 
> One more thing :  I am listening  Dronezone daily and quality wise compared to other tracks from this radio station (sound/noise/Fx/Ear Candies/Negentropy/Entropy ratio), I think your tracks in their setlist can only do them some good !
> 
>  :) 
> 
> Romain 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 30 May 2020, at 18:09, Tony Scharf <tony.scharf at outlook.com <mailto:tony.scharf at outlook.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> This one, fortunately, did not take me almost 8 years to release…
>> 
>> NoiseTheorem: A Turning Towards Chaos
>> 
>> https://noisetheorem.bandcamp.com/album/a-turning-towards-chaos <https://noisetheorem.bandcamp.com/album/a-turning-towards-chaos>
>> 
>> Tony
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