This is a track by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra originally. There is an interesting story to the track (and some fairly literal naming as well as Dall-E cover art creation.).
The four versions are basically the same except for tempo changes and different drums in the final version and were a “creative challenge” to produce something based on the original.
This is the final version with the original drums replaced with KVLT Drums by Ugritone.
The files below are the evolution of the track (they don’t change that much TBH), with a slower version (One), a faster version (Faster!) and the initial tempo change version before the drums were changed.
“In C” is a piece of music by Terry Riley. It comprises 53 phrases of unequal lengths that are played in order but each is played as many times as individual musicians choose to. With some suggested limits. It is quite complicated to explain but this page does so rather well. The suggested length is up to an hour and a half but the version below is about 18 and a half minutes.
Using an Akai Force (which is cheating ever so slightly in terms of the band name), with each of the 53 phrases as clips across 13 tracks with additional bass and drums resulted in the following. They were recorded in one take into the arranger in the Force. I didn’t use the suggested 8th note (high C) throughout as a timing device. No need. The bass sort of replicates it much more slowly (most of the time).
The video is made up of 79 time lapse photos of sunrise over Lake Titicaca (from the Peru side). It is about a three and a bit times of actual time, lapsed.
The file above is just exported direct from the Force whilst there is also a slightly remixed/mastered version.
The raw midi data for the 53 phrases can be downloaded below. It is set up as 53 separate midi tracks. It should import into most software in a useable format (assuming you have enough tracks). For instance in the Force it appears as 53 tracks horizontally that you can then move to a single track as clips (and then replicate as many times as you like). The tracks are looped but there is a need to check and tweak these based on the Score (which is on the page linked in the intro above). On the Force it is better to use Keygroup sounds rather than Synths (as you can only have 8 synths and they hog memory). The Force is particularly nice for this project as you can record a performance live into the arranger. Although make sure the Arranger has a length long enough and isn’t set to a short loop (two slightly painful lessons learnt).
