Track 2 is "sasayaki" soft whispers. I'm interested in the whole ASMR thing, Autonomous Sensory Median Response. If you don’t know about this, it’s a sort of automatic reaction most people get when you hear very soft sounds like whispering or movement of objects (hands, feathers, etc.) close to your ears. Some people also get this when their heads/scalps are gently touched or stroked. I experience both of these. Getting a haircut here in Japan is a near orgasmic experience, as the place I go to seems modeled on what barber shops in the US were like waaaaaaaaay back in the day. Straight razor shaves, head massages after shampooing, shoulder rubs, the works. Quite cheap too, at just a tad under $20. Anyway, I found a video on youtube of some Japanese girl doing an hour of ASMR phrases in Japanese, so I borrowed snippets of audio from that and used them. Listen closely. The percussion/rhythm thing that runs throughout this track is made from super small cuts from the leftover audio after I sampled the snippets into the OP-1, which was an ordeal of sorts. There are two sampler engines on the thing. One for synth-like use, and the other for drums. The drum one lets you take a 12-second sample, that can be chopped up and assigned to the keys. In my case, I used nearly 20 seconds of audio from the video, pasted cuts together in Logic, used the pitch & time thingy to play the sample back at double speed, bounced an AIFF file, then drag-n-dropped that over to the OP-1 via USB. In the drum engine, I opened that file, then went in and set the sample start/end points manually. Not a whole helluva lot of work, but still. The track is played back at half speed. Parts of the track were recorded at normal speed, others were recorded at half speed. The drum/percussion thing is both. I made a sequence using one of the sequencer engines, recorded a loop at normal speed, then recorded the same loop again with the tape playing back at half speed.
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