March 3, 2018: Seven years ago today, we recorded "Youth," the second song we ever devised using what was becoming Corduroy Institute's signature methodology.
On that Saturday, S.A. Morin returned to the location which would eventually be christened the O'Higgins Laboratory of Recorded Sound. There, a makeshift recording setup had been established around a Tascam DP-24SD Portastudio multitrack recorder.
Just as on Tuesday's session for "Fear Is Your Choice," S.A. Morin's tools consisted of a portable pedalboard and the Squier Bass VI. This time, however, W. Ruiz wielded an array of interlinked machines. His Korg Monologue was processed by a Hall of Fame 2 shimmer reverb, while the Roland SP-505 went through an Electribe ES-1. There are at least two layers of drums (the glitch-centric one being audible at the end of the song) along three layers of Bass VI within the multitracks.
After recording our improvisations, we made stanzas using cutups from the B. Davis Archive and proceeded to sing. On the final stanza, we recorded ourselves independently reading the words plus part of the chorus, then we collated these takes by alternating between them on the Tascam.Â
The recording we made on that occasion seven years ago today became the second song on the first EP we ever released to the public. Bandcamp download codes for the EP remain available upon request.
https://corduroyinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/the-gedge-journal-of-dalliance-studies-vol-i
