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I saw Eivind Aarset's group live yesterday ... he continues to amaze and
inspire me like no other guitarist at the moment ... what a wonderful gig!
As usual he used Ableton Live, so did his drummer, effortlessly morphing
from a free improvisation to a groove that suddenly contained prerecorded
sounds and melodies ... for his guitar playing, Aarset used a very wide
range of sounds, from utterly tweaked and distorted to breathtakingly
beautiful. I lo-res-photographed his setup after the show ... on the table
from left to right: a Moogerfooger, a ZVex effect - but which one? -, an
Alesis BitRman, and a Boss Delay. On the floor the Line6 Looper and some
more fuzz boxes ... don't recognize them, anyone?
http://www.veloopity.de/temp/DSC00015.JPG
http://www.veloopity.de/temp/DSC00018.JPG
I wonder if it could have been his Alesis BitRMan that occasionally produced
those intentionally completely distorted sounds (which I've also heard from
NiN before I think) - as if some input was cranked up way beyond normal
distortion, so much that the sound gets interrupted ... does anyone know
what I mean and how this is done?
Does any of the guitarists here use the Bitrman with interesting results?
all the online demos are done with techno rhythm machines ...
One nice discovery for me on this evening was saxophone player Håkon
Kornstad (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0tCpG5vPE) who played an extensive
solo set before he played with the Aarset trio - he uses playing techniques
that I have never heard before from a saxophone, and he loops with a
repeater. Ever since the days of Terry Riley and Dickie Landry, I love
saxophone loops!
Michael
www.michaelpeters.de