Campus Faces

For this project I came up with the idea to set storys of a students life (which in many cases is a noticeable part of lifetime) in a musical context. A time window of four weeks let no space for lyrics and voice. But giving a story telling concept over the complete album may compensate for that. That time was used to make a concept, compose, record, mix, master, do the artwork and online distribution.

The aim for that album where 10 ambient, experimental, rock songs. Additionally I was lucky enough to have time for recording sessions with Expanding_Flan, who did a splendid job recording bass for whisper collector. This is the only song which isn't new but this one deserved a better recording.

Most of the songs have samples from the campus of the University of Karlsruhe recorded with a stereo field recorder of Rukano. With his help I was able to get brilliant quality samples. Some songs with samples of the refectory or interviewed students saying 'Tuition Fee' fit obviously to the concept - some songs like student dream or printer, which have samples of a dishwasher or a real printer, maybe a little more imagination firering.

As usual there is a lot of guitar work in this project. Sometimes I used an ebow. The accordion was proved to rock hard in the progressive rock song conclave. The drums were played with the Boss Dr. Rhythm 880. (I really like the pads!!) A violine played with plectrum had its scene in 'The night before'.

In some cases I used digital effects processed in Super Collider which partly ran in by Rukano and P. Borgeat. For 'Student Jazz' I used the kitchens door which sounds like a free jazz trumpet. For 'Tuition Fee' I made sounds with an eighty meter receiver - equipmentused for Amateur Radio Direction Finding sport.

You can find more info about the equipment that was used for the album at my website: www.trundicho.de.