Floris Bates is a reverb pop songwriter/visual artist from Haarlem, Holland. Floris has been making music for longer than we know of, and probably longer than he can remember himself. From composing a solo classical piano opus in six parts when he was a teenager, to minimalist electronic pieces and dark industrial foolishness, to lo-fi bedroom pop culture referenced serenades full of themes regarding emo vulnerability, medication abuse and sexual frustration, Floris has done it all.
The Interlace is a classical minimal track written and recorded in Logic featuring his roommate Jurgen Wielart on the cello. In this track, different transitions of regularly played notes into overtone notes (flageolet) are explored through the playing of a broken Cminor7 chord.
“I guess I was just looking for an excuse to use a cello. Looking at the Interlace gave me a desire to keep the piece in a geometrical form with square like patterns. I find that writing scores is a lot like architecture. So I wanted to approach it in that way by keeping a sturdy frame. To achieve this, I used a lot of fifth harmonies to have a strong base of a chord frame. From there, I just layered it with textures and mutations from that chord, all whilst keeping it straight, square and simple. You can hear the changing of the motive into an overtone motive as like a room which resonates with a certain frequency.”
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3 фев 2022
