Week 7 of 52: "Canopy w/ Sam Mandell
“Canopy” started during a sample creation session on Zoom between me and Sam Mandell. I had approached him with the idea of creating sample packs and we had decided to have some Zoom sessions where we could send samples back and forth and create more! I send Sam some drum patterns I had made with my own samples and he then sent me back some guitar loops based off of those.
The guitar loop that starts the piece was basically the stringboard into the creation of the entire song. I started playing with some Portal (a granular effect by Output) on it and a beautiful world was created . Slowly I added more instruments and it was flowing so well that I decided I had to make it an entire song.
You never know where collaboration will bring you and you never know how collaboration will flourish! Take a listen to “Canopy” and if you like the vibe, try out the “Cano-Pack” which has all of the stems from the song as well as all the individual samples and a bunch of extras!