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KBO2005 FY9 Makemake

from Beyond Neptune by Chris Harris

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KBO2005 FY9 Makemake

According to the mythology of Rapa Nui, Makemake was the creator of humanity. He was the chief god of the bird-man cult that displaced the religion of the builders of the island's moai (I have two small stone heads in my back garden. As you do.)

136472 Makemake was discovered in March 2005, shortly after Easter (hence the Easter Island link; the team that discovered it referred to it with the codename "Easterbunny"). Despite being almost as big as Pluto, its late discovery was the result of having an orbital plane inclined at an angle to most of the other objects in the Solar System. It's the brightest KBO after Pluto and estimated to be nearly 1,500 km in diameter, which would make it nearly as big as Earth's Moon.

This piece continues my quest to see exactly how much reverb it's possible to use on a track. I haven't found an upper limit yet. The underlying "heartbeat" sound was originally a MIDI patch in Ableton, but I could never get it to coinsistently repeat the rhythm I wanted, so eventually I sampled the part where the sound and rhythm worked together, edited the resulting audio file into a loop, and then threw it back into Ableton. All the other sounds are generated in Suite 9, played from a remote MIDI keyboard. There's a lot of signal processing going on as well as the reverb; the rhythmic elements stem from ping-pong and multitap delays, and sounds are modified by feeding them through Ableton's resonator effects, tweaked so that the pitches are correct.

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from Beyond Neptune, released July 3, 2014

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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