publishing the symphony of psilocybin induced madness (inri046)

so, that means i need to record here that today is the day that inri027 was compiled as a four track ep.

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the core of this was written in my parent's basement in the spring of 2001. planning on going to a rave that weekend, i had previously purchased a large amount of drugs; i was, however, forced to stay in due to having a calculus test that sunday (the rave was out of town). well, my parents were gone for the weekend, most of my friends were out of town and i had a massive stash of drugs...

it is quite literally a symphony of psilocybin induced madness and was written directly into an ancient, hacked score-writing program. while it has been labelled as a symphony of drunken confusion in certain contexts to get around certain social stigmas, this is inaccurate.

around 2006 or so, i took a course in electronic music design that had a recorded component and pulled the score off of my hard drive with the intent of finally recording it properly. the dx7 i had available to me greatly improved the synth patches, enough that i'm willing to let the track rest that way.

i've included midi files of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.

i consider this my second symphony.

written early 2001. reconstructed in the first quarter of 2006, especially over march.  as always, please use headphones.

credits:

j - electric guitars, programming, digital effects & treatments, composition, production.

the rendered electronic orchestras variously include synthesizers, clavinet, kalimba, nylon guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, banjo, electronic drums, pc card, violin, cello, bamboo flute, flute, viola, soprano saxophone, tuba, trumpet, organ and music box.

released may 15, 2001

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/the-symphony-of-psilocybin-induced-madness

on third thought, i'm probably going to eliminate thru. it hasn't worked out as substantially as i was thinking.

in which case, everything will end up on jjjjjjjjjj, the 2006 version remains authoritative and the long version exists only as cut.

about the only reason i can justify having thru right now is as a sort of a second side. i'll have to see how much material gets generated in the end.

actually, i'm not going to do that, either.

the 5:31 "cut early mix" is about 20 minutes in it's full render. it's kind of unnecessary to have both the 20 and 5:30 version, and i actually like the 5:31 version better. what happens over that last 15 minutes is that the thing slowly unravels. the 5:31 cut-off is optimized to exclude empty space.

i'm going to wait to see how much space is left for thru, and if i have an extra 15 minutes i'll render it and fade it out. but i actually don't expect that. so, i'm going to stop inri027 right there. if i do the fade out for thru, it won't appear on the single.

hey, it's 48 minutes. that's a hefty ep as it is.

yeah, you know, i can't improve on this, really.

the score is for a lot of guitars, a lot of synths, pc card percussion, pc card bass, very electronic sounding drums and something that could be called an orchestra. if i was to redo this, i'd be copying over the previously recorded guitar parts, dumping the percussion and bass out through the old soundblaster (as i did before) and mapping the orchestra to synth patches. so, the only difference would be in the patches, and the piece is saturated enough that nobody will tell the difference.

so, that would be a waste of time, that i'm not going to bother with.

2006 version stands.

i *am* going to create a long render of a very early mix that i found, and it won't take long to get that up.

and that will be the quick conclusion to inri027.

that means the symphony will not appear on thru, but i think i'm going to need the space anyways (because there's going to be an extra choral piece, and a weird punked-up beethoven thing). so that will likely work out.

or i might use the early mix instead. we'll see how that works out.

so, i've already explored this composition in much more depth; i just pulled these four mixes off my hard drive - and that is the totality of inri027.

1) carleton mix, for music 3604 (2006). includes ambient guitar into/outro, entirely live guitars and the symphony partly played through a dx7 and partly through the soundblaster.

written early 2001. reconstructed in the first quarter of 2006, especially over march. this version was finalized on march 30, 2006.



2) divine amoebas mix. in 2004, i lifted the piano part to form the end of an anti-war protest piece i was putting together. it's slowed down to half speed and combined with an 808 going haywire, beethoven samples and backwards guitars.

piano part written in early 2001. this construction is from january, 2004.



4) alt mix. this is also from 2001, but it's a bit mysterious. i don't have a date, just an mp3 from 2007. i'll have to briefly explain.

this is a process piece, like most of the things i worked out through 2001. i initially composed it to repeat in patterns of 9, where each pattern had an extra bar of silence at the end of it. this created a twenty minute piece that spiralled down into nothingness, and became rather sparse at the end. for the final, published version i ended up modifying the patterns of 9 to decrease as the length of the pattern increases. so, if the initial section that repeats in a pattern of 9 had 8 bars of rest then the next pattern with 12 bars of rest would repeat in patterns of 8, and so on down to 3. this had the effect of shortening up the piece by about 50%. beyond that, i then added a piano part and a ridiculous crescendo.

so, this early mix is the initial cycling of 9s across the score. i don't remember why i cut it to 5:30 back in 2007, but i do think it's the perfect cut off point and will stick to it.

written early 2001. this render is from july, 2007.



5) initial soundcard mix. as with all the pieces from 2001 that i'm finishing, this was written in a scorewriter and monitored using the ol' soundblaster. i've got these mixes up because it's interesting to hear what this actually sounded like as i was composing it.

written early 2001. this render is actually from may 13, 2001.
 

that's almost an hour of difficult listening. good luck...

3) is a forthcoming vst mix. i'm not sure if i'm going to try and reintegrate the guitars from the carleton mix into the new vst mix or leave it as is as the final render.

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/the-symphony-of-psilocybin-induced-madness

there's a bit of a quandry with this track, because a good chunk of the character of it is dependent on the pc card. i mean, it was actually written around the old technology. hrmmn.

i'm going to end up doing some kind of card combination.