Guest Post: Katie Gately – Hymncycle
Hi, my name’s Katie Gately and I created the second remix on
Schemawound’s “Body Movements” titled Hymncycle. Schemawound
approached me on Soundcloud to do this remix via the Disquiet Junto
group. I discovered the group recently after Marc Weidenbaum found my
music online and reviewed a track on Disquiet.com. Until then, my
music had been heard by zero people.
This is my first remix. I had to google “remix” actually, it’s that
bad. My first step was to pull all of the tracks into Ableton Live and
listen to them while doing nothing else. I did this twice but was
quickly overwhelmed by all the possible directions I could go. So I
just erased everything besides the first and last two seconds of each
track and used the samples to build the base loop you hear throughout.
Once I had this in place, I took a look at the song titles and just
started singing them out loud. To me, this worked. And I felt like a
cute, smart-ass while doing it which made the process even more fun.
The content and structure of this track were construed in about 4
hours. I remember very little about those 4 hours because I tend to
work fast out of fear: I am trying to out-run my conscious brain
(where self-doubt and the inner critic conspire to obliterate my every
move.) So I made it, went to sleep, listened again and thought:
ok…I’m sending this to Jonathan now. Otherwise I’ll realize how
grandiose it is and erase it. I came back a few weeks later to address
the nightmare that was the mix: 40 tracks of voice when you only have
headphones and do not legit-know what you’re doing. That part probably
took closer to 400 hours. Lemur-pace, hyper-conscious mixing: I did my
best.
Overall, I want the track to be an ASL interpreter and a chest-opener;
to bring a human voice to something written in code. I actually
program every day but it’s also really fun to take something logical
and light up the blow-torch.
I’d really like to thank Jonathan for giving me the opportunity to
create something I am proud of and would never have made without his
beautiful material. The process felt like a growth spurt as I only
started making music this summer and have quite a ways to go before I
can take over the world and remix Justin Timberlake for a lot of money
that will buy me a house and 5-6 boats. I’d also like to state how
in-awe I am of the whole record. The mixes are gorgeous and the
content is badass. I’ve listened to it maybe 20 times and not just to
navel-gaze at my own track. Although I did do that twice and once in
the rain even.
If you are interested in anything I do, I have music here:
https://soundcloud.com/fionamoocow
I would also really enjoy collaborations in the future after I finish
my thesis in school this Spring…if I finish?
Please email me about any thing you’re up to!
Katie Gately
katie.gately@gmail.com
Los Angeles, CA
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