Set up the a LOM Geofone from the kit room through my noisy Boss Loop (to use as phantom power mainly) and then through my effects pedals into Audio Interface. I used a Moog Ring Modulator, Boss Pitch shifter/harmonizer, Bass boost and reverb pedal.

I stuck the Geofone against a very out of tune Banjolele and Mandola that I inherited and have not been able to get serviced. My partner also got a steel drum type melodic percussion instrument that I used to create sustained tones. It was interesting taking these signals and giving them different contexts.

At the time, I wasn’t particularly impressed with the results. Listening back I like it more than I did then, but it felt a little easy to just layer the instruments up in REAPER and I think I wanted the process to be more achievable live than it was. It only really sounded good after I had processed the recordings and cleaned up a lot of the low end, scooped out a lot of the high end noise and boosted the mids. The effects felt slightly generic at the time, but again with distance, it’s less obvious to me now what effects felt overblown.