A Choir Of Sixteen Jasons

This is an early proof of concept test for my Halloween mixtape.  The idea was to record sixteen (nearly) identical takes and layer them together to make a small army of singing Jasons.  I thought it turned out very well, so I'm sharing it with you.

Jason Herrboldt - Deus (Proof Of Concept).mp3

What you're hearing is four loops of the same brief recording.  I made it repeat four times because it's such a short end product (~20 seconds), and it's nice to be able to scrutinize it in multiple takes.  There are four Jasons singing each note, and there are four notes to the take, giving a result of sixteen Jasons.

Just this one small result took hours of processing, so a more ambitious project will take days, if not weeks, to pull together.

The voice takes were recorded on the iPhone Voice Memos app and processed using TwistedWave 1.10.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.7.  Only mild EQ and reverb were added to the final take for a more pleasing effect.  (Of particular loveliness is the sound of sixteen Jasons taking a huge breath at the beginning of the take!)

This year's Halloween mixtape will be quite different, by the way.  I'm working on a project with only my voice and pre-1925 audio recordings.  Aside from the occasional wax cylinder and phonograph samples, it will be an entirely original production.  This is almost like making an entire CD from scratch, something I've never before attempted.  A free download will (of course) be posted here in early October.