"3" Track 05 - Truman Sleeps

As well as trying to learn how to use the QY70 properly I am also trying to learn the piano and have been scouring the internet for sheet music to piano pieces I like. This particular piece is by Philip Glass which I believe was commissioned specifically for use in The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey. Fantastic tune, fantastic film.

This was done completely using the step entry method of recording, something which I have found unwieldy but I think that was mainly because I didn't really understand note / rest lengths from music notation. On that basis it is stretching it a bit to call this a cover, more a demonstration of how a sequence generated from the page can sound. The original has a nice rhythm to it which I didn't replicate on the QY70, I may play about with the Play Effects feature at a later stage but I am happy with how this sounds for now.

Here is the original from the movie soundtrack The Truman Show:

And my QY70 version:

"3" Track 04 - Opening Night

Another great track from my Uni days, I just loved the quirkiness of dEUS. Not my favourite dEUS track (Fell Off the Floor, Man gets that honour), but one of the easiest to reproduce on the QY70!

Here is the original from the album In a Bar, Under the Sea:

And my QY70 version:

"3" Track 03 - Losing My Hair

Like Grandaddy, the lo-fi exploits of Stephen Jones in the 1990s, released under the Baby Bird moniker, are almost perfectly suited to the QY70 although it is quite hard to get the QY70 to sound quite so warmly distorted. This is my favourite Baby Bird track, discovered on an NME cover tape in 1996, happy days!

Here is the original from the album Dying Happy:

And my QY70 version:

"3" Track 02 - Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)

I absolutely adore Grandaddy. Their album The Sophtware Slump defined an era for me, a classic album and this is a beautiful track, an ode penned by Jed, a tragic forgotten robot (great video too):

And my QY70 version:

"3" Track 01 - Your Young Voice

As promised, here is the first song created under the banner of my "3" project, a collection of covers created predominantly on the QY70 - Your Young Voice, originally by King Creosote & Jon Hopkins from their Diamond Mine album.

Here is the original in all its glory:

And my QY70 version: