Sub noise
I have developed a word called “sub-noise” which is what I call some my creations. The ideology behind this is pretty simple, and unfortunately nothing to do with subwoofers. Basically… Take some form of harmonic noise, not pure white noise, but for example, distorted string pad synth, make it cover some stereo spectrum for coolness. Now, add another layer of bit different kind of noise, finetune it until it starts playing with the main noise. Simplest example is the phaser effect when you play same sample twice with one of them slightly detuned. But this is relatively boring, with more complex samples, stereo mangling and all other kinds of fancy stuff, you can create pretty interesting end results which build impressive soundscapes.
The word sub-noise comes from the fact of having two (or more) noise sources, the main noise, and the sub-noise(s), which build the sound upon each other.
Lately I was listening to my old song Raw, which was released on 2003 as a single. It was done with FT2 and, no surprise, isn’t of bestest of quality. I was still in the beginning of my musical experiments, but I had quite a bit of dedication back then, and I find quite many interesting elements in the song which I have forgotten, although I shouldn’t have.
Back on FT2 times, there were lots of technical limitations to the process of making music. Nowadays all those things are gone as Renoise itself is so functional that you can do anything with it. You are not limited to samples by definition, as you can apply tons of effects, also use synthesizers and stuff like that. But back then you needed to figure out your own methods to create stuff as you want and to shine out from rest of the artists. I somewhat feel bad that I have forgotten those techniques and lost parts of my uniqueness which I had back then.
Anyway, I have come back to that and started work with some new tunes, slowly rediscovering the stuff behind the things that my works different from other peoples works, not saying there isn’t any right now, but I just think the stuff like sub-noise is one of the things I shouldn’t have left behind.
Anyway, hoping that I can come up with some interesting results in near future. I will for sure, post them here.