Comment by @helfetica • Hey
Beautiful sounds + such a cool backstory behind your creative inspirations while making it. Would love to know more about the production processes you used
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- Nice that it reminds you of Meitei
Here is a fun fact: before I dropped out of art college in 2016, I was a student mentor with professor Tato Taborda. In their first semester, new students would learn how to record in stereo and make sound collages with them. Was Musique a concrete 101 class. So I kept a lot of recordings from that period, plus the ones I was collecting with my zoom recorder when I traveled.
To make MC, I would add these recordings to a sampler, play them loosely to make the main beats for each track, and then meticulously put together other recordings to compose the arrangements. I used a lot of digital processing, such as time stretching, (obsessive) chopping, and analog processing with delay pedals. I've also added some samples from other tracks in the record, but it's more challenging to recognize besides the one that is an homage. But I'll leave that for you to find out! 😉
https://numagama.bandcamp.com/album/microscopic-cookbook-5th-anniversary-edition