Lots of production work on 'Will You Be My Snowflake' Today.
Changing the synth clarinet for a sampled one sounded much better, so I decided to sample some of the new waveforms. Most of the day then was taken up with sampling lots of clarinets.
After that, more time consuming changes. The middle instrumental section needed a solo of some sort, so I played the keyboard with lots of instruments and feelings. A ragged old upright piano was the first thing in my mind. In the evening, I tried a strange sound of synth 'jazz' voices, something like robot scat singing. This sounded suitable futuristic and old fashioned at the same time, so I played a live solo. The sounds in this preset are triggered at random, adding further to the chaos.
Then I experimented with some choirs, which remarkably hymnal. I played the theme as an intro, and faded up a powerful sound which included strings and an immense pipe organ. This became a perfect intro. This leads into the jaunty intro, the echo and nod to Sixty-Four. It seemed to cry out for a bell, like a full stop there, so I added one, and suddenly the bell called for a typewriter, so I swapped the cowbell of the song for a type writer there, as though the protagonist was typing a letter.
So, the song is approaching 3 minutes and has had about 3 weeks of little changes.
