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Words

 

Io non ci tenevo affatto,

percio’ lei ci teneva cosi’ tanto

Lei ci pensava cosi’ poco,

percio’ io ci pensavo cosi’ a lungo.

 

Sarebbe stato bello! Amore e guerra…

E non e’ colpa nostra se

Se non ci siamo mai neppure visti

A manifestare insieme

Contro il Vietnam, sull’isola di Wight.

 

In effetti mi chiedevo se non si fosse stabilita

tra noi, una nuova gerarchia, da sempre sottilmente ricercata

Sarebbe stato bello! Amore e guerra…

 

E invece sono qui pacifico

a conversare col cespuglio

E non discuto di politica,

e non parlo di conquista

Ed ascolto il suo silenzio,

 il vento che mi rende vivo

L’acqua che scorre sulla fronte,

il fondamento dell’unione.

 

 

                                           Words & Music ® F Carosone 2006

 

 

 

 

Candies

 

I used some fxs on the voice in this recording, always mixed very subtle and panned extreme. A vocoder was used on “pacifico” and then on “politica”, you can hear pre and post-treatment here. A full organ+string sound was used as the carrier to give the herbal voice.

 

pacifico-orig.mp3

pacifico-vocod.mp3

 

politica-orig.mp3

politica-vocod.mp3

 

I also cut the “e” from “ed ascolto il suo silenzio”, applied a long reverb tail on it in my audio editor, reversed it and finally put it before. This is a trick to prepare tension towards the incoming line. Listen to the “e” before and after.

 

eh-original.mp3

eh-reversed.mp3

 

Finally I granulated the “amore e Guerra” final sentence and again mixed it smooth and panned full left. You can hear the sound better here.

 

granny-amoreguerra.mp3

 

 

 

 

List of instruments

 

Voice;

MIDI programming to Maz Vsampler for drums, guitar;

MIDI programming to EMU Proteus for bass, egyptian reed, timba mallet, arco strings, chamber brass;

real orchestra samples from Computer Music Magazine;

granular and vocoding fxs.

 

Mastered with Waves plug-ins in Sonar 4PE.

 

 

 

Download Software to replicate the candies

 

This is the vocoder I used, grabbed from the UK Computer Music Magazine for free. It comes as a VST plug-in, so you should have or grab a VST host to play it.

 

CMVocoder_VST.zip

 

This was the granulator software used in the song. I grabbed it for free on internet, it comes as a standalone application but it saves wavs. Better than nothing…

 

GranuLab1_Standalone.zip

 

 

 

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