Flying Robots are here! I made a piece for Fleye . Watch kickstarter video to hear it and if you are excited for the prospective of a future full of these show your support and back them on kickstarter.

The Brief

• Our video should last ~3 minutes.

• we plan to have 20~30 secs intro with Fleye discovering the world, as an autonomous robot. Will be an urban exploration style.

• The sound will be evolving between foreground music supporting the unspoken sequences, and simpler background loops low volumes during the spoken text.

• In terms of musical style, we want to convene a sense of innovation (futuristic, robotic, etc), and a sense of friendliness (safety, human, etc), while keeping it fast paced (but not too much).

• I would say a ~120 bpm house beat with funky piano/bass/synth lines. Old Daft Punk (discovery, homework) seems like an interesting inspiration.

Idea

Making a 125 bpm tempo with a steady but funky electronica house style. I had ideas for 4 separate sections, beginning with something quite clean, sleek and functional to go with Fleyes design . Then with build up to introduce the fleye where I imagine there will be speech and shots of the fleye setup/prepare for launch. Then moving into a full bass groove, bigger chord layers and movement in the piece while the Fleye is in motion.

I didn’t want it to be too busy and in your face as to detract from the information during speech or watching the fleye itself. Although making it electronic for sure, I wanted to avoid using anything glitchy or complex layered rythmns so it doesn’t come across dizzying or give the impression the drone is bugging out and on a chaotic rampage.

I wanted the piece to progressively evolve elements or introduce new parts as Fleye is discovering and learning from the world. These are the shots of fleye taking off from a field where the arrangement becomes a more spacious ambient breakdown section introducing piano chords and a full and much fatter breakbeat section for flying inside the urban warehouse.

The very final section being a culmination of all the elements and bringing it to a close.

I’ll add details on the process soon…