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mi_dach
Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:42 am Post subject:
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I've released a new piece of abstract/ambient work entitled 'Initial Transmissions'. It's 12 minutes of seriously weird shit; layered shortwave radio broadcasts, tortured instruments and found sounds. Please check it out, I'd appreciate any and all feedback. This is the first part in a series of works.
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blue hell
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Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 24079 Location: The Netherlands, Enschede
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:56 am Post subject:
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I love stuf like this. The piece was interesting, it kept my attention. I liked the "defect organ" bits at the end very much, it sounded vulnerable. I kept a copy it for later consumption.
Looking forward to hear more of these ! _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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EdisonRex
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:
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I like this too. Very interesting choices of sound bites. What did you mix this with? It's very humorous.
And thank you for linking to SaveNetRadio. It's one of my little crusades right now, complicated by my being located out of my homeland. _________________ Garret: It's so retro.
EGM: What does retro mean to you?
Parker: Like, old and outdated.
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mi_dach
Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject:
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hey, thanks for the comments and feedback
It's mixed as follows: Ifirst I record a drone or backing track live onto a minidisc. I then play along with that track and record a new live track to my second minidisc machine. can overlay several tracks like this by bouncing it between minidiscs. Sometimes I put things onto cassette tape too (the monks chanting), and I have two shortwave radios I can play with. I have vinyl player i speed up and slow down in places too, so really there are a lot of different instruments/noises being played live. |
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Sheer Kahn
Joined: May 07, 2007 Posts: 12 Location: Bottom Left, UK
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject:
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Yea, this is pretty trippy, not normally my bag, but I enjoyed in nonetheless. |
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EdisonRex
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject:
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mi_dach wrote: | hey, thanks for the comments and feedback
It's mixed as follows: Ifirst I record a drone or backing track live onto a minidisc. I then play along with that track and record a new live track to my second minidisc machine. can overlay several tracks like this by bouncing it between minidiscs. Sometimes I put things onto cassette tape too (the monks chanting), and I have two shortwave radios I can play with. I have vinyl player i speed up and slow down in places too, so really there are a lot of different instruments/noises being played live. |
I really like the shortwave radio stuff. There's only so many ways you can use it. I actually want to try something I heard done many many years ago by Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause, they took a nightly news program and filtered it down to telephone quality and ran it through some Orban Parasound kit and a Moog filter, this behind a wicked electronic track called Circle X. I think they did it in 1971. It might have been 1969, but I only heard it in 1972. I want to try that.
Bouncing minidiscs? How do you get past the SCMS? _________________ Garret: It's so retro.
EGM: What does retro mean to you?
Parker: Like, old and outdated.
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mi_dach
Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject:
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EdisonRex wrote: | Bouncing minidiscs? How do you get past the SCMS? |
Perhaps it's a poor choice of words. I record a track. Then i play it back and play an instrument along with it, mixing them together and recording the result to the second minidisc. Then i play that back, and improvise another live piece along with it. Recording again layers it together, and twice or three times is usually enough
After a day or two in the studio I have a big collection of half finished tracks on minidisc, and then I sit down and DJ them together, adding more radio static and bleeps live until I hit a take that I like. |
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EdisonRex
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject:
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It's a sort of semi real time layering thing then. Cool.
I used to record by layering reel to reel tapes. You'd lose some signal and add some noise each generation. I figured 3-4 bounces was all I could effectively do. I did a lot of stuff that way though. It's a pretty creative and fun way to work. Plus you can re-take if you want, it's not destructive for the last pass, etc.
Never tried it with minidiscs. I got computers with big hard drives before I got minidiscs. Interesting take on production though.
By the way, love the website too. Fun stuff. _________________ Garret: It's so retro.
EGM: What does retro mean to you?
Parker: Like, old and outdated.
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