Monday, October 12, 2015

Equipment / Semitones

Why does my heart feel so bad? - Moby

Moby and his approach to writing music

How “Why does my heart feel so bad?” is constructed through analysis of the music

Some of the technology commonly used in club dance music 
The following equipment was used on the song

Equipment:

Yamaha SPX990 Multi effects unit  -  To apply re verb & delay tracks

Roland TR909 Drum machine  -  Sound source for drum machines

Emu Performance sound module  -  Piano sound source

Roland Juno 106  -  Synth bass sound 

Yamaha SY22 and SY85 synthesizers  -  String/Synth Pad Sounds

Akal S3200 Sampler  -  Sampling vocal sounds

Simple structure based around 2 chord sequences arranged in 8 bar blocks

The texture of the piece is developed around these chord sequences

He changes the amount of instruments playing the rhythms & the effects used.

How do we work out the following chords?

Major 5 Semitones 4 Semitones
Minor 4 Semitones 5 Semitones

Diminished 4 Semitones 4 Semitones

1 comment:

  1. This is a confused post Zain... You have a performance, part of a research homework & then some theoretical knowledge development that didn't need to be posted! Why is it so confused? The Moby technology is all that should have been posted... It is very minimal - you could have added so much more information to this. You have completed the first part of the homework... some students added pictures to show what the technology looked like... Just a thought to improve future research work yourself. Also think about references your research. You forgot about the second part though... What would we use today if we were to fully recreate this piece?
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