[ZT]Like Spining Plates大揭密 - [ ]
看到一个人高人八的LSP的详细录制过程，非常牛，一直只注意到这首歌的器乐部分，忽视了人声，没想到在人声部分也藏有那么多玄机，耐心点看完，非常有意思，对RH只能再次OJZ
How they made 'Like Spinning Plates', with weird sound clips to illustrate it
I thought it would be fun to explain the making of this unusual recording, and since every now and then people ask about this, I wantedto include something like this in my website, illustrating it withvarious audio files.
This is not in the LSP page of my website yet, but will be added soon.
So there you go.
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It'searly 2000, a year has passed since sessions started for Kid A.Radiohead are currently in a two-week experimental period, where no guitars or other traditional instruments are allowed, just electronica,samplers, loops etc.
They work on a version of 'I Will'. Not the first one, in the past year they had already recorded a full band version (probably similar to the one that would be released as 'I Will(Los Angeles Version)' in 2003), but they now try an electronic arrangement, which Thom would later call "dodgy Kraftwerk".
Wedon't have that recording (yet), unfortunately, so I was trying to come up with a fake version that gets somewhere close to it. This is the backwards backing of 'Like Spinning Plates' with the vocal removed -instead the vocals (and sadly also guitar, couldn't isolate the voice completely) comes from the LA version of 'I Will':
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-A.mp3
It was a bit tough to synchronize both sources, but you get the idea.
They listen to this version, and don't like it after all. For whatever reason, someone has the idea to play this track backwards. This is what my little fake version sounds like when reversed:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-Arev.mp3
Something clicks as Thom hears this. Not only does he really like the sound ofthe backwards electronica, he also hears a melody in his backwards singing that inspires him to look further into this.
He goes tohis sketchbooks and notes and pieces some lyrics together, and also writes a melody that works well over the backwards backing from 'IWill'.
But singing the new melody and lyrics straight over this recycled backing track was not clever enough. Something more far-out was needed, and someone had an idea what to do...
What happens now is one of the most unusual and brilliant little recording tricks I've ever heard of. Something The Beatles could have done, it would be rightin the spirit of their experimentation in the 60s. And technically it's not difficult at all.
To illustrate this process I sang it myself, since I don't have access to Radiohead's tape library... It's good enough to show what I mean. I hope.
First of all, you needa straight recording of melody and lyrics, but from the start you knowthat this will only be a reference recording:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-B.mp3
Now you reverse this recording and listen to it:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-Brev.mp3
Youstudy this backwards sound, learn it, and you try to reproduce it with your voice as best as you can. Your efforts go down on tape, in asession that promises lots of hysterical laughter. And the outcome -your imitation of the reversed reference vocal - sounds like this:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-C.mp3
And if you now reverse THAT new recording, you have the lovely LSP magic going:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-Crev.mp3
That's the vocal they use on the studio version. Pretty wicked how muchreversal of tapes went into this from a straight version of 'I Will'until the final version of 'Like Spinning Plates'.
The result is exciting, but it is decided that this vocal is not used in the whole song. You can hear it on the lines
While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-exc1.mp3
Because Thom doesn't imitate the backwards sound of his refence vocalperfectly, you can hardly make out the words of these lines. I think my backwards phrasing is a little better.
The next two lines are sung straight, probably the reference vocal is used, or Thom made a new straight vocal:
And this just feels like spinning plates
I'm living in cloud cuckoo...
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-exc2.mp3
But on the last two lines, you hear both the 'wicked vocal' and the normal one combined:
...land
And this just feels like [spinning plates]
Our bodies floating down the muddy river
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-exc3.mp3
*********
The live versions with piano are awesome, but I truly love the studioversion for this unusual recording process and the whole story of how it was born out of frustration over an unsatisfying recording of 'I Will'.
Genius.
另，Berkeley这学期开了门Radiohead的课
The Art, Music and Lyrics of Radiohead
Spring 2008 - English 98/198 - Units: 2
http://www.decal.org/581
再次OJZ...
I thought it would be fun to explain the making of this unusual recording, and since every now and then people ask about this, I wantedto include something like this in my website, illustrating it withvarious audio files.
This is not in the LSP page of my website yet, but will be added soon.
So there you go.
********
It'searly 2000, a year has passed since sessions started for Kid A.Radiohead are currently in a two-week experimental period, where no guitars or other traditional instruments are allowed, just electronica,samplers, loops etc.
They work on a version of 'I Will'. Not the first one, in the past year they had already recorded a full band version (probably similar to the one that would be released as 'I Will(Los Angeles Version)' in 2003), but they now try an electronic arrangement, which Thom would later call "dodgy Kraftwerk".
Wedon't have that recording (yet), unfortunately, so I was trying to come up with a fake version that gets somewhere close to it. This is the backwards backing of 'Like Spinning Plates' with the vocal removed -instead the vocals (and sadly also guitar, couldn't isolate the voice completely) comes from the LA version of 'I Will':
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-A.mp3
It was a bit tough to synchronize both sources, but you get the idea.
They listen to this version, and don't like it after all. For whatever reason, someone has the idea to play this track backwards. This is what my little fake version sounds like when reversed:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-Arev.mp3
Something clicks as Thom hears this. Not only does he really like the sound ofthe backwards electronica, he also hears a melody in his backwards singing that inspires him to look further into this.
He goes tohis sketchbooks and notes and pieces some lyrics together, and also writes a melody that works well over the backwards backing from 'IWill'.
But singing the new melody and lyrics straight over this recycled backing track was not clever enough. Something more far-out was needed, and someone had an idea what to do...
What happens now is one of the most unusual and brilliant little recording tricks I've ever heard of. Something The Beatles could have done, it would be rightin the spirit of their experimentation in the 60s. And technically it's not difficult at all.
To illustrate this process I sang it myself, since I don't have access to Radiohead's tape library... It's good enough to show what I mean. I hope.
First of all, you needa straight recording of melody and lyrics, but from the start you knowthat this will only be a reference recording:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-B.mp3
Now you reverse this recording and listen to it:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-Brev.mp3
Youstudy this backwards sound, learn it, and you try to reproduce it with your voice as best as you can. Your efforts go down on tape, in asession that promises lots of hysterical laughter. And the outcome -your imitation of the reversed reference vocal - sounds like this:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-C.mp3
And if you now reverse THAT new recording, you have the lovely LSP magic going:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-Crev.mp3
That's the vocal they use on the studio version. Pretty wicked how muchreversal of tapes went into this from a straight version of 'I Will'until the final version of 'Like Spinning Plates'.
The result is exciting, but it is decided that this vocal is not used in the whole song. You can hear it on the lines
While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-exc1.mp3
Because Thom doesn't imitate the backwards sound of his refence vocalperfectly, you can hardly make out the words of these lines. I think my backwards phrasing is a little better.
The next two lines are sung straight, probably the reference vocal is used, or Thom made a new straight vocal:
And this just feels like spinning plates
I'm living in cloud cuckoo...
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-exc2.mp3
But on the last two lines, you hear both the 'wicked vocal' and the normal one combined:
...land
And this just feels like [spinning plates]
Our bodies floating down the muddy river
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/audio/lsp-exc3.mp3
*********
The live versions with piano are awesome, but I truly love the studioversion for this unusual recording process and the whole story of how it was born out of frustration over an unsatisfying recording of 'I Will'.
Genius.
另，Berkeley这学期开了门Radiohead的课
The Art, Music and Lyrics of Radiohead
Spring 2008 - English 98/198 - Units: 2
http://www.decal.org/581
再次OJZ...
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