i also love the poly intros on Peter Gabriels "San Jacinto" and the original recording of "no self control" on the melting face album,i know he was into this kinds fo composers and the whole african,gamelan and world musics when he did those albums,but ive never quite figured out what exactly he is doing there,anybody?
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Mark Hamburg
<mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
One of my early bits of recorded looping is all drifty on the actual loop part (Roland GR-500 into Digitech RDS3600) but was built on top of a drum pattern built out of several cycles of different lengths carefully programmed into a Korg DDM-110 and DDM-220. The bass line was also somewhat inspired by Terry Riley's In C in that that I wrote down a series of figures and handed them to the bass player I was working with and said play these in sequence at whatever rate of progression feels right to you. I don't think he particularly appreciated trying to work with the drum pattern, however.
http://grubmah.com/music/midnight_train.mp3
Mark