How to make the sounds from St. Vincent ‘Los Ageless’ with DRC

Annie Clark AKA St. Vincent is the genius behind this week’s DRC Sound Design Tutorial. The (three times!!!) Grammy Award winner was born in Oklahoma but in next to no time she was flying across the globe, touring the world, guitar in hand.

She started playing aged 12, and went on to enrol at the acclaimed Berklee College of Music in Boston, but quit after three years to pursue her dream: she was destined to be in concert halls, not lecture theatres.

Having played in a few different bands, most notably ‘The Polyphonic Spree’, she decided to go it alone under the moniker ‘St.Vincent’, recording her debut studio album in 2006. There was dual meaning behind this chosen artist name, part tribute to her great-grandma and also a nod to the Nick Cave song ‘There She Goes, My Beautiful World’ which features the line “And Dylan Thomas died drunk in / St. Vincent’s hospital”. ‘Marry Me’ was released to the world in 2007, followed by ‘Actor’ in 2009 and ‘Strange Mercy’ in 2011.

By now, St. Vincent was firmly in the spotlight, working parallel in her solo career and collaborating with other musicians such as Andrew Bird and David Byrne. Byrne (formerly of Talking Heads) became such a great creative company to Clark that they released a studio album together called ‘Love This Giant’ in 2012 and an EP of remixes and live recordings entitled ‘Brass Tactics’ in 2013.

Her fifth solo album, the eponymously titled ‘St. Vincent’ was released in 2014, including the hits ‘Birth in Reverse’, ‘Digital Witness’ and ‘Prince Johnny’. With this release, she won Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy Awards in 2015 and high acclaim from the most respected musical critics.

The follow up ‘Masseduction’, which includes this week’s featured tutorial track ‘Los Ageless’ was released in 2017. The album won Best Recording Package and Best Rock Song at the Grammy Awards and also peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200.

‘Los Ageless’ is an ironic work about (guess what?) Los Angeles! The starving for youth and beauty, the toxicity of fame and the resulting crazy lifestyle. Learn how to recreate the track’s catchy sounds with everyone’s favourite virtual analog synth, DRC – Polyphonic Synthesizer.

Download the Ableton project from this video:
https://www.imaginando.pt/uploads/goodies/tutorials/saint-vincent-los-ageless-project.zip

00:00 Music Demo
00:21 Intro
00:48 Patch Construction
14:56 Music
15:22 Final

DRC – Polyphonic Synthesizer:
DRC on App Store – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drc-polyphonic-synthesizer/id973055710
DRC on Google Play – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imaginando.drc
DRC for Desktop – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/drc/downloads
DRC Product Page – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/drc

VS – Visual Synthesizer:
VS on App Store – https://apps.apple.com/app/id1560330289
VS for Desktop – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-visual-synthesizer
VS Product Page – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-visual-synthesizer

FRMS – Granular Synthesizer:
FRMS on App Store – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/frms-granular-synthesizer/id1381392223
FRMS on Google Play – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imaginando.frms
FRMS for Desktop – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/frms/downloads
FRMS Product Page – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/frms

K7D – Tape Delay
K7D on App Store – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/k7d-tape-delay/id1460245991
K7D for Desktop – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/k7d/downloads
K7D Product Page – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/k7d

DLYM – Delay Modulator:
DLYM on App Store – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dlym-delay-modulator/id1381246923
DLYM for Desktop – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/dlym/downloads
DLYM Product Page – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/dlym

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