Cogent Project is a side-thing from regular film-soundtrack-type composer guy Adam Lastiwka. It is highly experimental, but by far his most cohesive and intuitive album yet. Despite the sonic nature of the album, it retains the most integral elements of music, being that of conventional structure and harmony, but placed it within this unique context creates a big... weird thing?
Adam Talking about the album: "I did the album in two weeks, because I'm trying to train myself ...
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Cogent Project is a side-thing from regular film-soundtrack-type composer guy Adam Lastiwka. It is highly experimental, but by far his most cohesive and intuitive album yet. Despite the sonic nature of the album, it retains the most integral elements of music, being that of conventional structure and harmony, but placed it within this unique context creates a big... weird thing?
Adam Talking about the album: "I did the album in two weeks, because I'm trying to train myself to do quality work under high-pressure deadlines... sometimes extra pressure squeezes out that little bit of toothpaste at the very end of the tube that you never really knew was there.. ahha. " "My process revolved heavily around a lot of field recording and foley that I had been doing for a commercial... I ended up compiling a pretty big library of sounds, and decided I would try to make a record solely from these samples under a stupid deadline... A few days in, i realized melodic content was near impossible for me to do to the extent i wanted... so i began recording acoustic and electric guitars and samples those in the same way... it sounded okay but was still missing a lot.. so i decided to incorporate as much synth stuff as i could... but try to do the sound design from scratch, or at least heavily modified presets... I found this to be quite intense with the deadline I set... I mostly stuck to it and got some pretty cool sounds. With the samples, what i would do is take say, the sound of scissors cutting construction paper, a very rhythmic sound, but it didn't have a steady pulse, so I'd slice it into a bunch of pieces, quantize it, then work with it until it grooved a bit. I recorded probably 150 guitar parts in three key signatures, and just mixed and match which ones to sample... When you're working with melodic content, that process of sampling ( as i discovered is actually quite conventional to many electronic artists haha) instantly become wayyy more interesting, because as you shift the order of the sampled notes, you get a melodic idea that would never really be conceivable without that process. In the end, it turned out that I would create the guitar part, sample it, make something entirely different, then go back and double the new, weird melody with a conventional instrument, like a piano or synth, then extrapolate on the idea using my regular compositional process... I spent probably 15 hours a day at it, and set the release for 4:00 on a tuesday, but the upload process took longer than anticipated, so it didn't launch until 4:28.... ahaha... "
