Keeping with the manifesto’s rule of being original, I decided that I wanted to make some percussion for this track, I used Logic’s sampler to sample myself being punched/slapped in the stomach. I created four recordings in a corridor and put them onto the sampler in logic, I had two tracks set up with this sampler on, one of which being the stomach punches with heavy bitcrusher and flange on and one without, this contributed towards elements of the 80s video game music style.
The sound of a punch to the stomach is visceral and human, I planned to layer the visceral sound of the stomach punches with the more robotic sound of a roland 909 as well as to edit the sound at times to be a more melodic type of percussion, I also planned to use the deeper sound of the stomach punch for a kick drum and the sound of the slap as a snare.
I decided to use a punch to the stomach as a sound in this piece as often times I will be creating with confidence and I will hear something in my work that suddenly causes doubt which I compare to the feeling of being punched in my stomach.