Moving on from yesterday’s post, I mentioned that I wanted to have the eating and surgery sounds made by the percussionists, quasi-rhythmically. However, I also need to be able to mock up all of these tracks for MOD Productions as they test out the installation, and this space is one of the spaces we intend to test out first.

So today I spent the day creating a virtual cutlery and surgery set: samples of the sounds of those things, anyway, which I can now play back in Ableton live and compose with. Just like the Gun Bay and Crossing The Line samples, I can’t create something that’s as good as having real musicians recorded live, but it will make a fine mock-up, I think. The video above shows some of this stuff working, along with the clock ticking which makes it easier to hear that the sounds are actually slightly rhythmic.