A Track with No Instruments

In what is a refreshingly different video on making music, Andy Brewer uses a technique he discovered in a sound design tutorial on the Cableguys channel, using EQ to pull tones out of white noise. The results are pretty interesting, and the percussion works particularly well alongside the harmonic movements of the main tones. Here's more:

As far as I'm aware, this is the first-ever song composed using EQ as the primary "instrument"... and despite having only 24 eq points to program, I've never in my life missed using a MIDI controller as much as I have during these last two weeks

Why would I willingly submit to such a painfully slow composing process? FOR SCIENCE. hahaha.... yeaahh... The truth is, I watched a sound design short from the  Cableguys channel about using EQ to pull tones out of white noise, and I just couldn't get my brain off the idea.

I had the feeling it would be possible to make a song using just EQ. After all, I'm essentially working with a 24-voice poly sine synth. The real challenge, however, was making something that actually sounded good. And I guess I'll let you guys be the judge of that.

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