remixing in the library

since listening to uschi-no-michi's 'ameratsu' i've had an urge to remix it using darwin's 'on the origin of species' as a guide to the length of the cuts.

the idea was to record the length of each chapter in the book and then produce cuts corresponding to these lengths with each page represented but one second of time so that a twenty page chapter would be represented by twenty seconds of time, a thirty page chapter by thirty seconds and so on.

in the end a strict adherence to page lengths proved impossible as the main vocal was cut off half way through a word and other cuts featured periods of silence. in the end a slightly looser version of the original idea was used where the length of a cut could be slightly lengthened or truncated (and where a larger section of the main vocal was taken) to allow for a more organic sounding piece.

the finished piece is available on my bandcamp while the original can be found here