sax trx

[Michael Chocholak]

i've got a new piece called Tendrel over at artistserver. it's a hot studio jam techno jazz piece that clocks at 137 bpm and features michael gibson on sax - he really rips it up. regardless of how you feel about beats, if you like jazz sax you should give it alisten.

i've previously posted about richard dunlap's collaborative tracks on his dadala site using a number of my base tracks and wav files. recently he sent me some of his early material to work with and my first installment of this two way collab is called Flesh of the Moon and is posted on my Brandy of the Damned page.

to do this remix i surgically excised small sections of three different tracks. most of the samples were less than a few seconds long and i ended up with about 57 total. they were processed, looped, sequenced, and otherwise manipulated resulting in a piece that evolves through abstract ambience to gamelan glitch to techno jazz (i was thinking michael henderson on bass and bennie maupin on bass clarinet playing over an indonesian rhythm section and a glitch dj). the sax work of steve peckman is also featured (and processed to sound like a bass clarinet in the third section - it sounds amazingly like hein pijnenburg's work on my piece Quadrigemina). about the only thing that isn't totally lifted from richard and transformed is my bass line in the third section.

so, two pieces with some sonic common ground that couldn't be further apart in terms of process. it was a refreshing schizoid stretch.

spring on the farm is going to own my time for a while but i'm already thinking about the next piece.

enjoy

[mosc]

Very interesting tracks. I like the second one better because of more variety and more unusual sounds. It's good to hear a sax in the mix of electronic music. It fits nicely.