JH. The Secret Life of Trees
Track List:
[1] A Gracious Plenty1. A Gracious Plenty (10:09)
2. The Secret Life of Trees (23:56)
3. A Passion in Eden (2:28)
4. Deirdre's Confession (10:10)
5. After the Fire (5:57)
6. Grüne Lunge (15:13)
"There is work required of all who pass away. The Dead control the seasons. [...] The ones who died strong push the rivers downstream, pull at clouds and keep the sky in motion. [...] The ones who died shy string spiderwebs, almost invisible. The Dead are generous with their gifts to the living." (Sheri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty)
Instruments:
JH. Synthi Clone: ostinato, noises
Yamaha CS-50: melodic fragments
Oberheim OB-8, JH-3 modular, MOTM modules: arpeggioator lines
GMedia M-Tron: Choir
JH-3200 PolyKorg Clone: ring modulated noises
Steinberg The Grand 2: piano
SIR reverb, with EMT plate and Quantec Yardstick samples
Digital multitrack recording (Tracktion)JH. Synthi Clone: ostinato, noises
Yamaha CS-50: melodic fragments
Oberheim OB-8, JH-3 modular, MOTM modules: arpeggioator lines
GMedia M-Tron: Choir
JH-3200 PolyKorg Clone: ring modulated noises
Steinberg The Grand 2: piano
SIR reverb, with EMT plate and Quantec Yardstick samples
The recording software was only used like a tape machine.
There is no timing quantisation. The Synthi Clone ostinato was
laid down first. Then the arpeggiator / sequencer parts were
sync'd by audio trigger (env. follower etc.) from this track,
to keep the timing "alive".
Audio Sample (933k)
[2] The Secret Life of Trees
I wanted to make music about trees for a long time. About the thousands of little creatures, insects, bacteria, fungi, that live in the shelter of a tree, in its bark, in its roots, in the soil beneath the tree.
This is the music of a hidden world, a dark world.
Instruments:
Yamaha CS-50: main synth parts, and polyphonic audio rate modulation noises
Korg CX-3 with Dynacord CLS-222: organ drone
Synthesis Technology MOTM modular: various effects
JH. Storm Tide Flanger
Dynacord SRS-56 analogue delay
Quantec QRS reverb
Audio Sample (909k)
[3] A Passion in Eden
"I spent one summer as a tree, standing out in the garden spreading my fingers and feeling the wind go thru them. It wasn't that I wanted the body of a tree instead of my own; I wanted to think like a tree, stable, rhythmic thoughts [...]. I planned a summer of green peacefulness and of sifting nothing more subtle than the rain." (Joannne Greenberg, Summering)
Instruments:
JH-4 and JH-5 synthesizers
Synthesis Technology MOTM modular
TC-Electronics D-Two delay
Quantec QRS reverb
"Live in the studio" DAT recording; no overdubs.JH-4 and JH-5 synthesizers
Synthesis Technology MOTM modular
TC-Electronics D-Two delay
Quantec QRS reverb
Audio Sample (249k)
[4] Deirdre's Confession
"Deirdre. Cry for Deirdre. That Father Mattingly had done, and no one but God would ever know how much or why, though Father Mattingly himself would never forget it. All his days, he'd remember the story that a little child had poured out to him in the hot wooden cell of the confessional, a little girl who was to spend her life rotting away in that vine-shrouded house while the world outside galloped on to its own damnation." (Anne Rice, The Witching Hour)
Instruments:
Yamaha CS-50
Yamaha VL7
Korg ES 50 Lambda
JH-5 Moog style synthesizer
JH. FC-2 Stereo FET Compressor
Korg ES-1 thru random S&H modulated stereo phaser: drums
Frostwave FAT Controller sequencer
TC-Electronics D-Two delay
Quantec QRS reverb
Yamaha CS-50
Yamaha VL7
Korg ES 50 Lambda
JH-5 Moog style synthesizer
JH. FC-2 Stereo FET Compressor
Korg ES-1 thru random S&H modulated stereo phaser: drums
Frostwave FAT Controller sequencer
TC-Electronics D-Two delay
Quantec QRS reverb
"Live in the studio" DAT recording; no overdubs.
Audio Sample (1.3M)
[5] After the Fire
Picture the blackened remains of a wasteful forest fire.
The first sprouts of Green appearing afterwards, and
Life reclaiming the burnt area once again.
Instruments:
JH-720 synthesizer
Line 6 DL-4 looping delay
TC-Electronics D-Two delay
Quantec QRS reverb
JH-720 synthesizer
Line 6 DL-4 looping delay
TC-Electronics D-Two delay
Quantec QRS reverb
"Live in the studio", Looping Delay to DAT recording; no overdubs.
Audio Sample (920k)
[6] Grüne Lunge
This is a song for the rain forest.
The wold is breathing.
The wold is suffocating.
Instruments:
JH-720 synthesizer: solo voice
Oberheim OB-8: Arpeggiator
Technics SX-WSA1 physical modeling synth: choir
Yamaha VL7 physical modeling synthesizer: cello
Line 6 DL-4 looping delay
Korg ES-1 thru random S&H modulated stereo phaser: drums
TC-Electronics D-Two delay
Quantec QRS reverb
JH-720 synthesizer: solo voice
Oberheim OB-8: Arpeggiator
Technics SX-WSA1 physical modeling synth: choir
Yamaha VL7 physical modeling synthesizer: cello
Line 6 DL-4 looping delay
Korg ES-1 thru random S&H modulated stereo phaser: drums
TC-Electronics D-Two delay
Quantec QRS reverb
"Live in the studio" DAT recording; no overdubs.
Audio Sample (936k)
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