#polyphonic me

Here is the a video of the final performance from Md4312 year 1 semester 2

Our final polyphonic me track was written off of a guitar riff which I’d had for a while, but I could never write anything for. When Courteney commented that it sounded like a old Coldplay riff when I played it, so we decided that we would write a old Coldplay-esque song, but including Ableton technology to create layers and add synth sounds.

Our biggest references when it comes to Ableton and synth/tech use in songs were Two Door Cinema Club, and Anteros, 2 indie/synth rock bands that rely on triggers to enhance their live shows, so we thought we’d try and incorporate some of that into our performance, with the drums being entirely made up of samples that Chris had found. 

For the performance, we used and MPK Mini for Chris to play the drums/percussion and help with looping Courteney’s vocals, an APC key25 for Courteney to play the synth and control the reverb and delay sends for my guitar and her vocals, as well as an extra chorus send for my guitar. We had originally planned for me to loop my guitar in the bridge, however with Guy joining our group, we decided against looping the guitar, as it would’ve most likely meant that there were too many guitars in the bridge.