More work on the Marius Songs today. Yesterday's Beyond Mars vocals are pitched all over the place compared to the staid earlier take, but this adds a special emotion to the performance, it was this desperation that I was aiming for (this magical emotion that makes Bowie's Five Years so alive). There is something special about it, but it can sound jarring as a result. One appeal of auto-tuning is that it can make a voice 'fit in' more with electronic backgrounds but this can a one-way street because electronic backgrounds are often cold. The more emotion in any instrument, the more it will stray from pitch and timing because emotion in music IS variation in pitch and timing. I thought today that an alternative is to track the pitch of an emotional vocal and bend the music to fit its 'imperfection'. This could make for an interesting experiment.
Half of the day was spent on final mixing of the music. The other half was spent working on the Spotify Canvases, which are relatively simple and based on the album/book art. Two, though, use clips from the actual music videos to Masculinity Two and House Of Glass.
In between I'm watching a film with Antonio Bandera, Pain and Glory by Pedro Almodóvar.
