Re: Stick looping videos

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

> the clear tone


On 28 sep 2007, at 00.01, Raul Bonell wrote:

> this is far from being true regarding the sound of a stick,
> since the pickups are designed specially for them and add
> some punchy sound (nice for funky) that everybody loves the
> first days, weeks,... but after some months nobody can bear it  
> (o.k.! somebody).


Excuse me for not being clear. I was rather talking about "clear tone  
in orchestration" (as in "looping"). With the stick you have a huge  
span of notes to chose from and this makes it possible to use an  
optimal note distribution over the octaves, to give a clear sound in  
general. Even the muddiest single tone character can sound clean and  
beautiful if orchestrated into a good voicing when looping with that  
instrument.

PIano is another instrument that is able to acoustically fill the  
full span. Bass clarinet is another one. But for most instruments you  
need workarounds to get down into the bass area. As for example, when  
I loop on alto flute I need to bring up the loop two octaves to put  
in the notes that are to become bass notes in the looping  
orchestration. That's fun from an experimental point of view, but not  
very intuitive. With a stick (piano, bass clarinet etc) I would be  
able to play all lines manually.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)