How many instruments can YOU play at once. Better yet, how many WIND instruments can you play at once?
The interesting thing here is, it provides such a unique sound. This is Rahsaan Roland Kirk (the multi wind instrument guy). This stuff was introduced to me by Pauly at Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar in South Philly.
Good shit!
This is a bit from a day long jam session when Kevin and Mary. Kevin brought over a fretless bass and iPad with the Korg iMS20 application on it. We plugged in the iPad, my Kaossilator, and the (squeaky always out of tune) Monotron and jammed for the afternoon/evening.
I came away with 3, 25-30 minute long jam recordings. I spent time last night breaking them into 4 separate tracks.
1 is 3:29
2 is 1:22
3 is 9:39
and 4 is 25:18 (nice and long).
I’m putting up track 1 here. Tell me what you think! I think we’re getting better at this stuff. I particularly find myself listening to a lot of this stuff ON PURPOSE!!! (Imagine that shit!) It’s actually enjoyable.
Check it out. Track 1 from the Kevin/Mary/Cemego day!
It is NOT ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AT ONCE (for instance, the monotron didn’t make it into this one) but the other 3 tracks are definitely worthwhile. I’ll put them in the mp3volumes as soon as I’m settled with them. If you cant wait to hear them, either visit me or make a special request and you can get them off the FTP.
For some stupid reason I’m really proud of the noises that have been coming out of my house.
Here’s images and links to the stuff we used to make this noise. Click the image for a link to the site for each “toy”.
This time I’m using the Korg Kaossilator, Monotron, and Sony Acid Loops.
Worked about 2 hours on this one. Started out almost like a carbon copy of the opening of Stevie Nicks’s “Stand Back”, but Gamera made sure that didn’t happen!
Quite proud! Gamera proud for me!!!
CRANK IT UP!!!!!!!!!
TAKE THAT BEYONCE! RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
Yeah! Dig it! This is called MonoBob
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Theatreshmuck takes the Kaos, DJBob on Monotron, and Cemego on the bass.
This one comes straight from the heart. This is called Where’s My Medicine?
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Cemego on the Kaos for the track “Hey Yaaaaaah”. (Sing along if you feel it in ya. Hell, put yer hands in the air!)
If you use a machine to make synthesizer sound loops, some would right away revert to building a beat first.
But sometimes if you wash a bunch of random tones in reverb, loop them, and audibly push them to the back, you aren’t bothered by the loop so much.
Here’s something I made tonite. This was done live in real time on my new Kaossilator.
This is my impression of a quick stitch together Harold Budd ambient piano offering. You can also here me screw with the patch settings on the device. (This is the only time being an amateur really doesn’t sound that bad!)
Listen to the stream of it:
AUUUUGH! I CANT WAIT!!!
Another interview of a FAVORITE music producer. Trevor Horn of Buggles, Art of Noise, ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and a million other wonderful 80’s band speaks out about the artists he’s worked with, how difficult it was to make music before sequencers, and the trouble with buying weed in south africa.
A long but fun ride through the 80’s music scene and an early synthesizer pioneer with comical anecdotes and brilliant insights to music production and the music industry. It’s a long ride, but quite rewarding!
Here’s Part 1:
Lecture: Trevor Horn (Madrid 2011) – Part 1 from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.
Here’s Part 2:
Lecture: Trevor Horn (Madrid 2011) – Part 2 from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.
Synthtopia.com does it again with a great synthesizer junky web tip!
It lead me to a WEB BROWSER BASED MUSIC SEQUENCER called Soundation. That’s right! All you need is a web browser. I didn’t even sign up with them yet.
I made this groovy little ditty on the thing. Check it out in the player below! You can mix your stuff down to a .wav file! It’s cool and FREE, folks… Suck it up before they start chargin!
I cant stand another minute without one of these. I am NOW leaving for sucky Franklin Mills Mall where I will be buying A monotron.
I will then be driving home on 95 with it plugged into my car speakers and play it really loud.
AUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!
(pardon me whilest I become what I hate! a consumer whore!)
Enjoy the video… My mind is reeling with ideas!
