Re: Vedr. Re: Jon Hassells music

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

On 7 mar 2006, at 10.04, rune fagereng wrote:

> Have you ever tried making this sound on the guitar ?

Yes, but I gave up after two minutes, realizing that a guitar is a  
guitar, a trumpet is a trumpet, Jon is Jon and I had yet to find out  
who the hell I am before making any significant noise with whatever  
instrument ;-)  With a guitar there are lots of other cool sounds  
available. But I think Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset plays guitar  
quite close to Hassels tone, although Eivind has his own identity and  
unique expression (fretless guitar played with ebow through Electro  
Harmonix Micro Synth and compressor - and a BIG EAR for micro-tonality).

> With use of harmonizer and the "freeze reverb" ?

Yes. But instead of harmonizer, these days I prefer to layer loops  
while instantly transposing pitch in my looping devices. And I tend  
to prefer monophonic instruments for looping, leaving out the guitar  
to play more flute and sax. IMHO it's more fun to make up chords that  
way compared to playing chords on a guitar ;-)  And The Fun is why I  
make music in the first place.

>  Do you use ableton for liveplaying ?

Yes, sometimes. I use Live as a mixer and to get at the built-in  
Freeze Verb and and some Pluggo effects. In the past I was using Live  
also for hosting MIDI sequences that I like to trigger to dynamically  
change parameters in my loopers but since I started using mainly  
Mobius for looping I tend to use scripts in Mobius for that. At the  
moment I'm using Mobius as a standalone application but as soon as  
Mobius will support two parallel MIDI clock outputs (one addressing  
Live and the other addressing my external pre amp/effect processor) I  
will be able to use Mobius again as VST plug-in with Live (I miss  
that lovely FreezeVerb and my Pluggo effects).

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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