Opus Pocus: Classical Music Discovers LSD.

This was one of those songs that I knew would have to turn into something different in the studio due to the instrumentation (just one guitar), so I wanted to go as far away from the old school classical 'norm' to get something almost utterly atmospheric, kind of like house techno-music... only not. Throwing away the classical and acoustic guitar, I picked up my homemade stratocaster, threw it into a heaping sack of pickups and started jamming until I found my sound and groove. BUT, it wasn't enough, there just wasn't any substance to the piece. That's when I came across a rusty spoon. As it turns out, a rusted spoon as a makeshift slide, run through a pre-amp, analog delay, and volume pedal makes a good impression of what would be the baby of a violin and one of those saw things. Its sustain is haunting.

Here is a 40 second sample of Opus Pokas.



40 second sample
Alden
"Opus Pocus"
Form & Folly
2010