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The Transformation of Scotty Irving, Vol. I
As I'd mentioned at the end of May,
http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200605/msg00936.html
I was invited to take a recording of a improvisational percussive
circuit-bending performance by Clang Quartet, and use it as samples for a
performance. The recordings of my performance arrived yesterday, and I
thought I'd share it with you as followup.
The result is here:
http://www.subscapeannex.com/other/transformation_of_scotty_irving_vol_one.mp3
a single 30min track of room-mic-recorded live looping / processing
soundscape. It's a pretty big file even as an mp3, so I'm afraid if you're
on dial-up the file size might be too much to deal with.
How I came up with the above:
For my set, I chose to treat the recording as a monolithic block without
pre-sampling or selecting from it, and brought no pre-selected samples
from the half-hour recording. Instead, I chose to pretend I was live at
the
recorded performance, and play the recording into my loopers and effects
as if it were a live performance into the effects chain, sampling and
processing it as I went along.
I used several loopers in the process: an Akai Headrush E1 and Z-Vex
Lo-Fi Loop Junky at the top of the signal chain to capture unprocessed
chunks of the recording, and a Boss RC-20, Boss RC-20XL, and Digitech
Jamman at the end of the chain to capture post-processed chunks.
This was also the only time I've ever used a computer in performance: Mac
OS X has a wonderful Text-to-Speech read-aloud function built in. I chose
an appropriate source text, pasted the text into Notepad, select All,
chose File>Services>Text to Speech>Start Speaking and OS X read the
text in a voice I picked out from the many different voices I had as
options.
Hope people like it, or at least were interested in how I came up with it.
best,
Steve B
Subscape Annex http://www.subscapeannex.com/