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Re: EXPLAIN your 10th Anniversary Birthday 30 second tune
From: "Stefan Tiedje" <Stefan-Tiedje@addcom.de>
>
> I think I placed some of that information into the comment field of the
> mp3. (ID3 tags are wonderfull, but often stay unused...)
Thanks, Stefan. I updated the website with your description.
Folks, this is what we have so far, below. Not bad. For those of your who
don't have descriptions in there yet, you still have time to send them to
me. Now, let's make it even better. If you have the info, send me your
website URL, and a direct URL to your picture and I'll post it on the
website too. For example, I would need a url like:
http://www.box.net/public/static/pdyjckglzv.jpg
Kris
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Streaming File
http://www.krispenhartung.com/loopers-delight-10year.m3u
Individual Sound Clips and Descriptions
Per Boysen - Sweden
http://www.box.net/public/static/bprq0dbv3h.mp3
Tenor sax (Otto Link 9-star) analogically into FireworX digitally into
Mobius/Laptop (Mobius standalone version, no VST plug-ins, basically only
looping). Creating three loops to jump between while melody phrasing.
Typically II: Tonica, Tonica, Subdominant, Dominant. Subdominant, Dominant
:II A lot of "add9" coloring of chord voicing.
When looping in this context it really is "backwards mixing" since all the
stuff you traditionally do when finally mixing your tracks - like EQ'ing,
coloring with effects etc to blend them - all of this I do directly as I
play, sort of "as part of the instrument". The tool for that is some 25
patches in the FireworX that I have created for layering stuff in a way
that
they should all sound ok together, as a summed mix of loops/layers. As an
example I have very few sounds with a "full timbre", simply because then I
would not be able to loop in the essence of layering sound. The colliding
frequencies would make the musical counter lines hard to follow.
Another concept for "instant orchestration" in looping would be to bring
dozens of instruments and swap between them while layering loops. But
instead I have chosen to use fewer instruments and work on the sound for
alternative expression.
Rainer Straschill - München - Bayern
http://www.box.net/public/static/u8g5d8pj7b.mp3
As some of you may know, I did not do any written compositions ever since
the turn of the century...so this is, as all my stuff since then, more or
less improvised (more or less means: for some of the stuff, I used some
patches of a groove box, but not here, and not anymore).
It's from part ii of my Ninjam session with Tony K, of which Tony has
already posted the first part here:
http://www.thinginajar.com/bigtony/RainerAndTony.mp3 So why didn't he post
the second part as well? Sometime in the mid of the performance, I
experienced some problems with tracks dropping out and returning. This is
usually a result of high CPU load or network load on either end. So I went
and configured around a little on my side, looking to get rid of the
problem.
When I did, I decided to do some a capella stuff (I guess this is even the
first recorded a capella performance of mine). So what can you do with
vocals, MadShifta, OhmBoyz Delay and Mobius? See my clip.
This is a loop cut out from about ten minutes of performance, after which
I
started to wonder why Tony didn't play anything. Turned out that I had
deactivated his stream on my side during my troubleshooting.
Andy Butler - Norwich - UK
http://www.box.net/public/static/q0xj2l170o.mp3
Doug Wyatt - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/4ehvcpim6o.mp3
Jon Wagner - Chapel Hill - North Carolina - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/kr2c0h2q5n.mp3
Joshua Carroll - Texas - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/y92pvlyi0y.mp3
Mine is likely the simplest recording in this collection, and I feel a
little silly even having it included. This was my very first day of
successful live-looping. I ran my Takamine acoustic guitar and old BOSS
drum
machine (played with my fingers, not sequenced) through an Alesis Studio24
mixer directly into the line-in on my laptop's internal sound card and
looped using basic overdub on one track in Mobius. That's about as simple
as
it gets!
Raül_Beniarrés - CAT
http://www.box.net/public/static/1udbvqs4hx.mp3
Steve Burnett - Raleigh - North Carolina - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/4jf31jax22.mp3
UNDO - David Kirkdorffer - Boston - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/p3s0dh7l7f.mp3
Fabio Anile - Rome - Italy
http://www.box.net/public/static/h07yuy4mre.mp3
Mine was just an imporovvised recording with a DD20 loop and some sparse
piano notes.
Just for fun at night, before sleeping.
Ted Killian - Medford - Oregon - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/xf3umzyacx.mp3
My little ditty is actually a tiny excerpt from an outtake that didn't
make
the final cut on my CD.
I'm rather sorry that I didn't have time to record something new. Now,
actually, I wish I had.
Sometimes I just get lazy I guess. I want to participate but there are too
many other things
whirling around in my life at the moment.
Anywho it's jut me an my trusty Gibson '77 RD Artist, fairly clean-toned,
with Vortex, Sustainiac
and 2 EDPs. Nothing really ground-breaking here. Just a way to pass the
time.
Michael Peters - Germany
http://www.box.net/public/static/tzvsdsx94k.mp3
Electric guitar played live into a Digitech IPS33b with a pitch shifter +
delay patch, then into a Vortex, then (using the mixer) back into the
pitch
shifter, ad infinitum.
Milco Montagna - Italy
http://www.box.net/public/static/scsgin9kck.mp3
The LD Chorus (Michael Peters)
http://www.box.net/public/static/zenes07e76.mp3
The voices come from an online interactive text-to-speech software demo
from
AT&T (http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php) echoes and
arrangement made in Adobe Audition
Tim Nelson - Portland - Maine - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/18z3b7hgy7.mp3
My LD Birthday tune ('Decayed') is an exerpt from one of those gigs. I
have
no idea what the signal path was, but I know it was played on an old,
beat-up Washburn Monterey acoustic to which I added active electronics.
The
loopers were a Boss RC-20 (old version), an Akai Headrush (old version)
and
a Line6 DL-4, and they were hooked up to a bizarre combination of a/b and
a/b/c boxes and an AR.Acoustic amp, most likely in cahoots with a
DigiVerb,
either a Boss DD3
or a DigiDelay and definitely a volume pedal.
Dan Montgomery - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/0qq5hseop1.mp3
"30 sec from Improv in Dm #37"
My submission is from one in a series of meditations done either solo or
with other players, most of whom have no experience looping other then
what
I impose on them. Some pieces are based on pre-programmed triggered MIDI
loops from either a workstation keyboard (K2000) or Ableton Live with
little
on no live looping.
Others, like this one, are fully spontaneous. In this instance, I
developed
a rhythmic 'drone' pad on the Repeater using voice and hand sounds and
several passes of processed guitar (VG-88 v.2). The other players
ad-libbed
over this bed. My function was to establish and maintain a musical
environment and leave room for them to dialogue. Open mics captured the
room
ambience which can be heard in the background. The result can be
surprising;
from fully chaotic to unexpectedly splendid.
The entire piece developed slowly over 11 minutes; all in all, rather
short.
I hope you enjoy it.
Rick walker - Santa Cruz - California - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/3u5p0r47ag.mp3
I record a lot of my live improvisational shows and for the last seven
years
I have only improvised live and not done any compositions (though I
revisit
sets of instruments and will have set scales/modes/rags/maqams and rhythms
that I'm in love with for a while).
Frequently, I'll go back to those shows and hunt down loops that I do want
to use in my abstract electronica CDs (I have a tendency to alternate
composed, computer driven abstract electronica recordings with live
looping
recordings).
I did the same with this particular piece, throwing it into ACID to
manipulate the loops I 'sampled' from my self.
Anyway, this particular track was from a one off theme show that I did (I
love to do theme oriented shows just once or twice) called 'Weird Kalimba"
where, for the first time since the turn of the millennium I used only
traditional West African, North African and Middleeastern instruments and
did a very avant garde show with
them.
On this piece I used just West African rattles (several different kinds
from
bamboo rattles to seed pod gourds to even a South African set of rattles
made out of the husks ofMoth chrysalises).
I then used the Echoplex with INERT equaling SUBSTITUTE (one of my
favorite
techniques) and rounded to 8th notes so that singing long tones in a
particular scale the EDP would grab individual 8th note values of long
tones
I was singing, randomly.
I love to play this game randomly because the piece starts sound really
weird and without formand the more you play the game, the more all 8 notes
(or however many you choose) will fill up.
By singing in falsetto, I can effect a loop that sounds as if the Pygmies
of
the Ituri Forest had accidentally drunk some on LSD spiked punch.
The 'melody' is just me using a couple of different extended vocal
techniques (warble singing and trill singing) along with a couple of
interesting technique where 1) I pound rhythmically on my chest with my
fist
which causes very quick comb filtering effects to change the timbre of my
voice as I also manipulate the overtones of my falsetto notes and 2) where
is grab the loose skin just above my adams apple and shake it rhythmical
which causes a very interesting modulation effect on the voice.
Both of these techniques look really strange (as it does when I play my
Filipino nose flute or manipulate the overtonesof my horribly phallic
looking toy voice changer) and the audience will sometimes laugh when I do
this but I think it produces really cool vocal effects.
Daryl Shawn - Oaxaca - Mexico
http://www.box.net/public/static/v87t829h3x.mp3
I'm lucky in that 30 seconds is the normal length of the loops I make,
since
they're 30-second cassettes. I did four tracks of improv nylon-string
direct
through a Studio Projects tube mic pre, into a Yamaha four-track. Two
tracks
are clean, two are fuzz (Effector13 TBD). I did a lot of pitch-shifting
with
the speed control, which shoots the tracks up an octave with a bit of a
"whoosh" which I'm partial to. Overall, the low fidelity stands out
compared
to a lot of the other tracks, but that's part of what I like about the
medium.
Ingo A. - Stuttgart - Southern Germoney
http://www.box.net/public/static/m75l7rojce.mp3
Kevin Cheli- Colando
http://www.box.net/public/static/1x38r6rh3f.mp3
Luis Angulo -
http://www.box.net/public/static/hdu66flopu.mp3
Neil Goldstein - Portland - Oregon - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/fvr7ummoin.mp3
Charlie Milkey - Wisconsin - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/1bmfgd572j.mp3
This is an ambient piece that I chopped 30 seconds out of; the setup was
guitar->toneport->gearbox->garageband and the same with bass :) The song
is
based on a Spanish classical guitar piece titled "El Noi de la Mare" that
Ihave been playing incorrectly ever since i first tryed playing
it...mainly
because Ihave never heard the song before :) I thought it sounded better
this way :)
Warren Sirota - Saudade
http://www.box.net/public/static/32txsp0gl2.mp3
I was swimming in a pool of mercury, and when I emerged I had silver
snakes
instead of hair. And I shook off the snakes and revelled in the glory of
sudden hairlessness, and realized this was my destiny, to wander smiling
and
naked through the world, reflecting.
RP Collier - Portland - Oregon - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/qbpok022cb.mp3
The local newspaper in my berg hosted a ringtone contest last month and
wanted 30 sec. max compositions, so I put together a track using thumb
piano
loops.
The thumb piano is passed thru a ring mod filter but otherwise everything
is
simple and minimal. I put the track together as an alert chime sequence,
then an urgency sequence where the rhythm is varied, and then a drone or
holding sequence.
I felt it would function well as a ringtone but the 3 judges deemed it
unworthy of comment. The winners and honorable mentions were all
multilayer/multivoice, Winner was drum/bass/synth/sample techno
electronica,
the 2nd Place entry was a flute sonata.
I listened to all the contest entries and still feel that my little ditty
works successfully, with just the right amount of "perky and quirky." But
what do I know? I suppose it might have helped if I had ever actually
owned
a cell
phone. Or maybe not. :-)
Stefan Tiedje & Lutz Wernicke - Paris - France
http://www.box.net/public/static/shro4khf1t.mp3
It was pretty simple out of my perspective, Lutz played violin, I treated
the Ondes Memorielles.
It is a Max patch with a mixer like setup of 8 phrase loops of up to 90
seconds and a tap delay (also 90 seconds) with 8 variable taps each is
harmonized and could feedback into the tap input. A really cheezy reverb
would add some air. The combination of harmonized feedback could create
quite complex melodic and harmonic structures or textures...all this is
controlled with a Faderbox from Fostex and a little Midi keyboard.
Claude Voit - Switzerland
http://www.box.net/public/static/rd6ms1a9og.mp3
Mark Christensen - Vermont - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/9qd1ez3h52.mp3
um... er... i snipped 30 seconds out of an improvised solo guitar
looping...uh, something or other.
i think this was done with my Frankenstrat, TC Electronics Sustainer, a
Lexicon JamMan and a Vortex. waaaaaayyyyyyy stripped down for me. sounds
like it was done during my "Vortex before the JamMan in the signal chain"
period.
Jeff Kaiser - Ventura - CA - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/v9ian8c0y9.mp3
So, I was working on some software for a friend....and made some loops
making squeaky lip noises. This was done in one pass using the free Pluggo
Jr. Plugins, Max/MSP Runtime and my free software available here:
http://jeffkaiser.com/software.html
Tony K - USA
http://www.thinginajar.com/bigtony/TonyK_LD_BirthdayLoop.mp3
This is a snippet from a piece called Razorwire Necklace. Most of the
effect
is from my Adrenalinn, the ModFX Philter and a DL4 and DD20. One of them
is
set on reverse delay with 100 feedback.
Krispen Hartung - Boise - ID - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/dd6ylydpqr.mp3
I did something a little out of my element here....okay, a lot out of my
element! I pulled 30 seconds from a clip that I recorded very recently for
Rick Walker to collaborate over, but rather than it being me on guitar (my
primary instrument of 26 years), it is all vocal looping, just me on my
Sure
SM58 plugged into my laptop looping/effect system with Mobius. But you may
not be able to tell that it is vocal only, as I was using some massive
tone
mangling VST effects, such as Reaktor, ring mod, octave, Cycling 74 Hipno,
and a bunch of other layered effects that I can't recall. I liked the clip
so much, that I think it's almost more experimental and avant-garde than
my
guitar material. Who knows, maybe I'll do a looping gig with just voice in
the near future. The entire song was supposed to be called "Baby Zantac".
Rick...you're up.
BTW, if you want to hear here the full 5 min clip of madness, you can
download or listen to it here: http://www.box.net/public/86akafpxhk
Brian Good - Chesterland - OH - USA
http://www.box.net/public/static/5mvbl832zg.mp3
Processed soprano sax, Apple Sculpture, Motu MX4, Spectrasonics Atmosphere
and NI Absynth, along with four instances of Augustus Loop.