email from David Hirmes (DoOoM)
GILLESPIE BROTHERS:
For our track, we took as base material the 12-fold left-to-right binary pattern on the top horizontal line of the piece. The pattern is 4+4+4, translated as (+ - - +)(- + + -)(+ - - +).
We turned that into a 12-beat drum pattern that runs through the whole piece. The basic guitar riff also uses the same binary 12-fold +/- pattern, matched to the drum pattern. We then built these 12-beat measures into a 12-part phrase, with each 12-beat measure forming one part of the 12 measure phrase that also has the same 4+4+4 pattern. Then, one more layer: the whole track has a 4+4+4 structure with an upside-down “part b” in the middle, thus recapitulating the same 12-fold pattern overall.
With the guitars and drum tracks all done, it still sounded a bit dry, so we mixed in some heavily modded monster noises to bring in the necessary emotional content.
The pattern is palindromic, so if you play the whole track backwards, it has exactly the same structure and “melody” as it does played forwards. This is also true of Andrew’s art piece— it looks the same reflected in a mirror, not accounting for minor organic differences.
For our track, we took as base material the 12-fold left-to-right binary pattern on the top horizontal line of the piece. The pattern is 4+4+4, translated as (+ - - +)(- + + -)(+ - - +).
We turned that into a 12-beat drum pattern that runs through the whole piece. The basic guitar riff also uses the same binary 12-fold +/- pattern, matched to the drum pattern. We then built these 12-beat measures into a 12-part phrase, with each 12-beat measure forming one part of the 12 measure phrase that also has the same 4+4+4 pattern. Then, one more layer: the whole track has a 4+4+4 structure with an upside-down “part b” in the middle, thus recapitulating the same 12-fold pattern overall.
With the guitars and drum tracks all done, it still sounded a bit dry, so we mixed in some heavily modded monster noises to bring in the necessary emotional content.
The pattern is palindromic, so if you play the whole track backwards, it has exactly the same structure and “melody” as it does played forwards. This is also true of Andrew’s art piece— it looks the same reflected in a mirror, not accounting for minor organic differences.
All images copyright Andrew Zarou.