This single is part of a larger project I am working on that also contains the “Preludes” I have already published.
Though this “microkernel mix” is a minimalistic and short version of the one contained in the forthcoming project, it captures completely the Andean essence and landscape I pretend to give to the theme.
I wrote these songs between 1997 and 2002 using Impulse Tracker and ModPlug Tracker (the actual ancestor of OpenMPT, the tracker I used to release this EP).
Three friends of mine (Miguel Colque, Eloy Espozo and Rubén Bobarín) helped me to mix and record the first version of “Un eco en el silencio” (“Echo in Silence”) using my Yamaha PSR-19 and Miguel’s Casio keyboard. Since we used a 4-track audio recorder, I had to save one sound on top of other and, because of that, the resulting song sound quality was not so nice. I actually made several mistakes playing while recording, so the result was far from a “release to manufacturing” quality.
For the current version of Echo in Silence, I used several sampled sounds of that Yamaha PSR-19 (samples I recorded when I still owned it) and also used several Kontakt and Reaktor instruments. I sequenced all instruments in OpenMPT. So, the version in Dandelions sounds pretty similar (but by far cleaner) to the original one recorded with friends 25 years ago!! :)
Echo in Silence (Z80 mix) is a pop-synthish version of Echo in Silence, with faster tempo and 80’s sounds.
I have just published my latest album called “Brisa Mística”. It is available through several streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, CD Baby, Amazon Music, Deezer, YouTube, etc.
In memoriam of my mom: She already knew this music and she liked “El mensaje del viento”; she would have been happy of this release.
I have just published my second album: “Stigmata“. It is already available through several streaming services such as Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, etc.
Though I composed this work on 1997; I am publishing it again with a lot of improvements and some changes:
Modernized the sound a little bit.
Removed a lot of noises and effects.
Replaced several sampled instruments by AudioUnits.
Started to use Renoise instead of OpenMPT and Impulse Tracker.
Equalized, mixed and remastered again and again.
This is the hardware I used to “implement” this work:
MacBook Pro (mid 2010, mid 2012 for “update 1”) and MacMini (mid 2011).
Yamaha PSR-18.
Yamaha PSR-213e.
This is the software I used:
Impulse Tracker (the original version was implemented on this amazing piece of work).
OpenMPT.
Renoise 3.1.
nlogPoly Synth.
Korg M1e software emulator.
Imperfect Samples’ Steinway Walnut Concert Grand.
Native Instruments Kontakt 5.
Audacity.
The artwork was created by my wife: Zdenka Johnson-Kirigin Orías.
The C++17 code shown in the first cover is compilable code (if you define everything used before).
This is the song list:
La nada
Theogenesis
Emerger del caos
El espíritu de la verdad
El diseño
Fiat lux
Big-bang
(update 1) Big-bang 12″
El primer segundo
El mal
Expansión
Brillo estelar
Agujero negro
El libro de la vida
Hogar
Sosiego
Update (20161231): I published a remastered version of this album containing a 12″ version of “Big-bang”. The Spotify player URI in this entry was also modified to refer to “Poiesis Update 1” :)
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