Peace Is Dub (Vocal Mix) by Worker Ant
Peace Is Dub...a mutation/synthesis of Jamaican dancehall and Korean folk music. Awkward blend, eh?
The focal point of this track is peace. Spragga Benz & Dopehead Zo both wrote songs about the desire for peace and at the same time defining peace. New definitions of peace.
By bringing these two songs together into one dub, I feel like I'm giving that message more emphasis: peace is what peace requires, just like war is the social setting that war requires. The requirements are variable and ever-changing, just like the definitions of war & peace.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
모습
모습 by Worker Ant
Producing like cooking: a sound surgery entrée served with lyrical salad
모습 is a dub combining two different original tracks into a synthesis of sound. The original tracks are Korean pop ballads from the 1990's with sad & romantic lyrics. I decided to intertwine vocal samples from both songs between lyrical bars in my dub version. The vocal samples are weaved into a new basket of lyrical content, messages & conversations.
This dub puts a malicious twist on current digital remix culture: re-appropriation & reform of existing content to create new content representing my own interests & desires. It's the pleasure cleaning up old bookshelves & replacing books with recreations of their own contents. It's a new species of Frankenstein, created with limbs of humans & machine organs.
Synthesis dub is not a subgenre or recreation of something original, but a mutation of contents, a becoming-block-of-expression. This mixed salad of a dub track can't represent my expression or a clear singular message, but it represents multiple representations of messages coming from multiple sources. The outcome of synthesis dub makes these sources abstract and oblique by becoming new sound, in a constant transition.
Unlike my first synthesis dub ("Communicate Dub"), 모습 doesn't have a common lyrical theme that brings the original tracks together.
Producing like cooking: a sound surgery entrée served with lyrical salad
모습 is a dub combining two different original tracks into a synthesis of sound. The original tracks are Korean pop ballads from the 1990's with sad & romantic lyrics. I decided to intertwine vocal samples from both songs between lyrical bars in my dub version. The vocal samples are weaved into a new basket of lyrical content, messages & conversations.
This dub puts a malicious twist on current digital remix culture: re-appropriation & reform of existing content to create new content representing my own interests & desires. It's the pleasure cleaning up old bookshelves & replacing books with recreations of their own contents. It's a new species of Frankenstein, created with limbs of humans & machine organs.
Synthesis dub is not a subgenre or recreation of something original, but a mutation of contents, a becoming-block-of-expression. This mixed salad of a dub track can't represent my expression or a clear singular message, but it represents multiple representations of messages coming from multiple sources. The outcome of synthesis dub makes these sources abstract and oblique by becoming new sound, in a constant transition.
Unlike my first synthesis dub ("Communicate Dub"), 모습 doesn't have a common lyrical theme that brings the original tracks together.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Communicate Dub
Communicate Dub by Worker Ant
I'll just tell the whole story of this track. One day I was riding the bus and listening to my mp3 player. I heard three different tracks in consecutive order: Nigga Please by ODB, The Light by Common and Luva Changer by Living Legends.
All three of these tracks had some rhymes about one thing...communication. ODB rhyming about how well he communicated, Common and Living Legends rhyming about the importance of communication.
I was really feeling those rhymes. Only by chance, I heard the three songs in consecutive order.
Then I started thinking about intertwining all three tracks into one dub track. After listening again, I noticed that all three had some breaks I could sample and the BPMs were similar. So I decided to make my first synthesis dub.
"Synthesis dub" is the only term I could come up with. Most dub tracks are versions of ONE single track. Communicate Dub is a version of several tracks. My definition of "synthesis dub" is when one or more original tracks are versioned into one dub track. Communication is the lyrical subject that ties these tracks together, serving as the focal point of synthesis or mutation.
I've finished two more synthesis dub tracks, currently working on a fourth and will continue to produce more of these tracks in the future.
I'll just tell the whole story of this track. One day I was riding the bus and listening to my mp3 player. I heard three different tracks in consecutive order: Nigga Please by ODB, The Light by Common and Luva Changer by Living Legends.
All three of these tracks had some rhymes about one thing...communication. ODB rhyming about how well he communicated, Common and Living Legends rhyming about the importance of communication.
I was really feeling those rhymes. Only by chance, I heard the three songs in consecutive order.
Then I started thinking about intertwining all three tracks into one dub track. After listening again, I noticed that all three had some breaks I could sample and the BPMs were similar. So I decided to make my first synthesis dub.
"Synthesis dub" is the only term I could come up with. Most dub tracks are versions of ONE single track. Communicate Dub is a version of several tracks. My definition of "synthesis dub" is when one or more original tracks are versioned into one dub track. Communication is the lyrical subject that ties these tracks together, serving as the focal point of synthesis or mutation.
I've finished two more synthesis dub tracks, currently working on a fourth and will continue to produce more of these tracks in the future.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Dumpstered Noise
Dumpstered Noise by Worker Ant
This is the sound of dumpster diving.
I recorded various trash sounds for all the percussion samples. The insect & bird noises were recorded in a mountain - because dumpster diving can include foraging useful and/or edible things in the mountains too.
The track is supposed to capture the process, the feeling and the action of dumpster diving - finding useful things in the trash. Like a soundtrack for the experience, or the habit.
I hope this track could be used as a riddim for someone who wants to put some vocals over the top of it too. Anyone in Seoul or Seattle, let me know if you're interested in that.
This is the sound of dumpster diving.
I recorded various trash sounds for all the percussion samples. The insect & bird noises were recorded in a mountain - because dumpster diving can include foraging useful and/or edible things in the mountains too.
The track is supposed to capture the process, the feeling and the action of dumpster diving - finding useful things in the trash. Like a soundtrack for the experience, or the habit.
I hope this track could be used as a riddim for someone who wants to put some vocals over the top of it too. Anyone in Seoul or Seattle, let me know if you're interested in that.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
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