Piano meditation 2
Same setup as yesterday, but this time I'm playing piano. 2006-01-01
By the way - Happy New Year!
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Same setup as yesterday, but this time I'm playing piano. 2006-01-01
By the way - Happy New Year!
I took the setup from the last few days and stuck the feedback machine into it. I resulted in this, distorted, glitchy thing. I kind of like it. This will really get your subwoofer going. 2006-01-02
Yes, yet another one of these. I'm just having so much fun playing with this setup. 2006-01-03
Still pursuing the possibilities in the harmonized loop setup I've been using for the past few days. This time the notes from the track from two days ago are being used to control a gate and a filter inserted into a mutating harmonic drone. 2006-01-04
This is a recording of me trying to use my EBow as the battery runs out of juice. 2006-01-05
This is what should have happened yesterday. 2006-01-06
Just a quiet feedback track. 2006-01-07
A bunch of noises in a big, glassy space. 2006-01-08
Almost the same as yesterday. 2006-01-09
Same processes as the last two days, but a very different input and result. 2006-01-10
More in the feedback series. There will be several in a row based on the tracks from the past few days. 2006-01-11
Another feedback track. 2006-01-12
I'm pleased to announce that this project has led to another collaboration. The Austrian artist Evelin Stermitz has used the track 2005-09-16 as the soundtrack for her video art piece "Red Velvet." You can read more about her at her website.
Even more feedback. 2006-01-13
And some more. 2006-01-14
We are now in the final month. There are only 30 more tracks to go.
And another in the series. Besides feedback, these tracks have a lot of multitap delays and three instances of Loopy Llama, one of them running backwards. 2006-01-15
And the last in the feedback series for the moment. 2006-01-16
I'm using the same looping and delay setup as I have been in the last few days, but this time the input is my didjeridoo. The reverb comes from Laukyrkan in Sweden. 2006-01-17
Here's a very structured piano and a cello that's all over the place. This was made with phasing loops, MIDI arpeggiation and a nice little program that forces all the notes into one key. That was necessary for the arpeggiator to stay in tune with the rest of the piece. 2006-01-18
I took yesterday's setup and tweaked it just a bit to come up with something a little more ordered and darker in mood. 2006-01-19
Some quiet pulsing noises. 2006-01-20
Same pulses with some different processing and feedback. 2006-01-21
Some different pulses with feedback. 2006-01-22
Continuing with the pulse series. 2006-01-23
More pulses. 2006-01-24
Even more pulses. 2006-01-25
And the final pulse. 2006-01-26
I now have a shiny, brand-new copy of Augustus Loop, thanks to the kind folks over at Expert Sleepers. It's a really great software looper, with lots of tweakable parameters and realtime performance control.
The thing is, it's an Audio Unit plugin and doesn't work with Cubase, which I use. However, thanks to Soundflower and RAX, I have been able to integrate it with Cubase. It took me all day to figure out how to get it working, and this little piece is the result of that work. I'm too tired to do any more.
I'm working on getting control of all the features available in Augustus Loop. This is an expanded version of yesterday's track, using the MIDI information from the voice to control the pitch of the loop, but delayed a bit. 2006-01-28
Just funnin' 2006-01-29
I added more feedback processors to yesterday's setup and this is the result. 2006-01-30
This now marks one year since the project began, but since it was suspended for two weeks following the death of my father, it has not yet reached 365 songs. So, I will continue for another 15 days to make a grand total of 366. That's a year plus one to grow on.
Here's another ambient groove track with my strat and EBow going into many layers of delays and loops. 2006-01-31
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