Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 4579 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:46 am Post subject:
Tony, can you please check in? You got 14 minutes... _________________ Garret: It's so retro.
EGM: What does retro mean to you?
Parker: Like, old and outdated. Home,My Studio,and another view
Joined: Jul 07, 2007 Posts: 2081 Location: Berks County, PA
Audio files: 90
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:09 pm Post subject:
Subject description: photo for my 01:00 GMT set
I forgot about posting a pic for display during my upcoming set. Here's a splash screen for a video that is playing in an on-line conference art gallery.
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Cover for Photosynthesis video
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_________________ When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.
Joined: Mar 28, 2006 Posts: 1497 Location: Kansas City, Mo USA
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:18 am Post subject:
Here is a recording of my NYE 2020 set.
It is an exploration of timbres in an ambient/drone/sustained setting.
Note that I didn't use keyboards or loopers and only used the modular (analog) synthesizer with an outboard effects unit (a DPS-V55) to create the space.
Thank you to the event organizers, stream operators, and participants for enabling these events.
Had forgotten to record my set and made a new one, it should be about the same .. except that for me this one does not have the stress of broadcasting it live.
The patch I've used:
2020-12-31--Blue Hell--2020 NYE - happiness is moments.mp3
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2020-12-31--Blue Hell--2020 NYE - happiness is moments
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Joined: Jul 07, 2007 Posts: 2081 Location: Berks County, PA
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:16 pm Post subject:
Subject description: Acoustic Interloper Set
Balance. The piece is based on a chord sequence that I have been finger-picking-arpeggiating for a few years, never used in a performance before:
Dm A C G Bb F C Dm.
My wife & son and also several people in my port check noticed some similarity to the progression in the Eagles' Hotel California. It also has some overlap with the progression of Black by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, sung by Norah Jones, and used once or twice in the TV series Breaking Bad, but Balance is identical to neither. In fact, there is a 2nd variation of
Dm A F G Bb F C Dm,
substituting an F for the first C. It just sounds better in that middle fret position.
My idea after playing the initial progression was to move away from "playing the changes" and instead improvise modal-jazz-style over a single chord from that progression for an extended period. Before that, though, I live-recorded the progression from 00:00 to about 02:00, then played it back and dueted using inversions of the recorded chords. The original ascends from the nut twice, then descends from the 10th fret twice, then descends from the 7th fret using the F substitute chord. When I layered the duet in real time, I descended when it ascended (using chord inversions), ascended when it descended (again inversions), and doubled with it on the substitute F section. The result sounds a lot like the chorusing you get with electric 12-string guitar, except over an entire chord instead of over individual notes. The duet runs from Marker01 to Marker02 on the Audition screen shot.
The only editing was trimming dead space at the start and a few seconds manually going into Marker01. I listened to the effect of increasing amplitude starting at Marker02, but I verified an interesting effect that I've known with my ears and I guess intellectually. Even though the amplitude in terms of signal levels drops off at Marker02, the harmonic content is much different because of the inclusion of two no-input mixers. From Marker02 to Marker03 sounds roughly as loud to me as the sections that precede Marker02 because of harmonic content, which is somewhat counterintuitively in the low frequency range. The mixers add a lot of low-end noise. See FFT screen shot, with pre-Marker02 on the left and post-Marker02 on the right. I left the recorded levels unchanged in the posted recording. I think part of the lesson here is to avoid over-reliance on VU meters alone is estimating loudness.
My rig consisted of a Godin xtSA, mostly used as an electric guitar, although I did feed its synth signal live to a Roland GR33 guitar synth playing the "Perc Kit" patch for the drum sound starting at Marker03. Signals fed into Ableton Live. I precorded a simple looped strum of each chord, separately, using the MIDI output of the GR33, and turned them into click tracks (D note, Dm chord, and F chord used in the performance), driving Applied Acoustic Systems' StringStudio strumming a Koto patch (more percussive click) and an AAS Chromaphone Smooth Carillon patch (tinkly). The banjo part from Marker05 to Marker06 was the only non-click-track precorded part. It is a Bart Reiter open-back Professional model with the internal wooden resonator that acts as an equalizer. I didn't want to mess with a mic and instrument change during the performance. The two no-input mixers are my workhorse Yamaha MG124cx and Galaxy Audio AXS-10, both starting with straight analog feedback and then dialing in some in-loop digital delays.
Thanks so much to PHOBoS for setting this up & managing, also Jan, Jez and Paul for switching duties, to everyone who played and listened. Happy New Year!
EDIT 1: Also used an EBow in obvious places, and a Live granular patch that echoes a played note down a minor third, and that note down a minor third, etc., until it decays. I also copied & edited to get a patch that drops to the 5th below for modulating to a major scale. Playing the EBow in a single position against the minor-third delay is interesting, because it continuously reinforces the primary note, with the descending intervals continuous in time, creating sort of a sonic fabric across that scale.
DaleEParsonBalanceNYE20202021.mp3
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*Balance*, Copyright 2020, Dale E. Parson, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), copy with attribution.
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my rig
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Adobe Audition levels. Read & discuss.
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_________________ When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.
Once again, I could not listen live nor participate, but I listened to all the recordings posted in this thread, and there's some great stuff! Thanks. _________________ .: james :.
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