Thursday, November 24, 2011

1-4 Herbie (Robert Harsch) - "Night Driving w/ Canon FS200"


Night-time footage shot while driving, using hand-held Canon FS200 Camcorder. = = = SCENERY: Beginning with a left turn from N. 8th W., we travel down Main Street, Riverton, WY, making another left on Federal Blvd. That's one continuous shot from 0:33 to 1:15 (actual travel time was twice as long - clip is at 2x-speed), with effects added in a separate "track" in Nero Vision's "timeline" view. It allows only 1 effect at a time - no overlaps. Two edits & eighteen wheels later, we go through the triple tunnels of the Wind River Canyon between Shoshoni & Thermopolis, WY. Next, past the Cenex Oil Refinery in Laurel MT, which burns & melts into N. Federal in Riverton, a few blocks from where we left off, as we pull up to a convenience store. ... When I start a 600-mile drive at 3am, I MUST have coffee! The oil refinery clip had been taken a few days earlier at dusk, coming off I-90, on my way to get more coffee. = = = MUSIC: "1-4 Herbie" is a little jam I threw together 1992-ish on my 88-key Korg T-1 Music Workstation [8-track sequencer, 16-note polyphony], mostly to play with the phasing effect. This was recorded from the stereo outputs of the keyboard. I started with the 4-bar Drum pattern, added a 4-bar Bass pattern, then improvised the Piano & Sitar tracks in one pass each. I used a LOT of modulation & pitch bend expression on the Sitar patch, purposely trying NOT to have it sound like a sitar. At times it sounds like steel drums - fitting for the oil refinery. The title ...

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