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Re: Looping 50 Fugues with a 'Bass Choir' & an LP-1



Thanks for listening you guys-so glad you're enjoying the sounds! It was a lot of hard work and I'm super proud of it! I'll post about it again when the whole thing is done with the book and all :)



--- On Thu, 6/16/11, daniel <daniel@ithinkwethink.org> wrote:

From: daniel <daniel@ithinkwethink.org>
Subject: Re: Looping 50 Fugues with a 'Bass Choir' & an LP-1
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 8:28 AM

ha! this is awesome!


On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Daniel Thomas <danielthomas4@mac.com> wrote:
Loving this!!

daniel

What an exciting project! Listening now...

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen


On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Steve Uccello wrote:

> Hi Loopers!
>
> Just wanted to share a project I'm working on: Michael Maier's 'Atalanta Fugiens' (1617) -probably the first multi media document in history including 50 fugues, 50 emblems, and 50 epigrams, meant to be enjoyed simultaneously. Though composed in 1617, they have a droney, medieval flavor, and I went for a kind of 'Black Sabbath meets Bach' interpretation.
>
> For the entire tracking process of all 50 fugues I used my trusty Looperlative 1.
>
> I basically did a live looping approach in my home studio, layering the fugues up one part at a time, then I recorded it from the LP-1 to a laptop as a stereo track into Digital Performer. No punching in or editing.  It was awesome to be able to record with such a high sound quality all at the touch of my feet! (thanks Bob!!) The ensemble is a 3 voiced ‘BASS CHOIR’ comprised of BOWED UPRIGHT BASS, ELECTRIC FRETTED BASS, and ELECTRIC FRETTLESS BASS.
>
> 'Clarified Birds' my group with visual artist J.F. Uccello is set to release this in December. Our intention is to create a fine book that includes a CD along with it. Joe will be toiling at length as he’s planning to create 50 emblems of his own inspired by and based upon the original 50.
>
> After the tracking was done, the audio was mastered by Robert Rich. Though the fugues are only 1/3 of the total experience intended by Maier, I hope that sharing the music might be of interest to any interested in music with alchemical aspects, bowed bass, looping, or fine books.  Here is a link to all 50 fugues streaming on 'soundcloud',
>
> http://soundcloud.com/clarified-birds/sets
>
> Hope you enjoy them! Steve uccello
>