Diapason Notes
Diapason…….. is an extremely flawed release. When I first started painting, about a year before music. I wanted to do a series where I induced emotions and just painted and whatever happened happened. Diapason is my attempt at fulfilling this through music. The painting was done the evening of my Grandmothers funeral, it was tough but it fit into this too well not to use, it was my second painting I ever did. The album has 2 feedback loops I accidentally made through all of the tracks. Other than that, this is my first all modular album.
Its flawed for a couple main reasons, I used this as a distraction from a breakup I had gone through, my perception was not right to try to bring on stuff like joy and happiness into it, this led to this album being very brutal all the way through. The feedback loops, they just keep a slogging and haunting atmosphere in it that just doesn’t work in my opinion looking back almost a year and a half later. But, this is a reminder and indicator of where I can go in life I still have a soft spot for it.
It was recorded in 5 days, I was supposed to go on vacation, but, as I said there was a breakup. So I did this instead. Joy was hard. I couldn’t find a way to bring joy to me. It took a while but I realized playing music with my best friend brought me joy. So Anonymous from FTV and I just did a one off jam and I chose a section and put it in there. I initially just imported a mix into my stuff and tried to mix it together which made it tough to listen to, especially after mastering. I made it like that on purpose initially to see who could listen to it. It brought me joy…….. The remix has all the tracks from both sessions individually in the mix and given the proper treatment, it sounds right this time.
Remixing was an experience, I pulled the tracks from the archive and accidentally pulled the initial recordings so nothing was done. I mixed this album from the ground up with nothing to start with from the original release. I had no idea what to do with this originally, so I treated everything like an individual project under a full project. This lead to uneaven mixing and mastering and volume problems between tracks. This stemmed from me trying to keep with the concept in production as well. I regret this decision. This one is a whole new take on something I haven’t heard in a long time. My goal was to do an objective production job like it wasn’t mine.
Mastering, as I said, is linear this time, volume matched and givin my best shot trying not to think about my issues with it. It was fun to revisit it was hard to convey the concept knowing the flaws. This is one im probably going to have to do again, in a different line. In the meantime, it’s a pretty solid Harsh noise album and made me realize I can make harsh noise with the best of them and it pushed me to try something new and do things differently. Still proud of it. It was awesome to see what people said when I gave them the rough mixes. Unfortunately, the Diapason story is pretty cut and dry, not much to this one.

-Aurick Leere