new loop piece; two loops!

[David Gans <david@trufun.com>]

Recorded yesterday: a new studio performance of "Quarter to Five."

http://www.trufun.com/audio/Quarter-to-Five_v1.mp3


I recently bought some new gear, and now I am able to run two 
independent loops. My first application of this facility is to create 
what I call "lenticular clouds": using an overdrive to create a rich, 
sustained tone, and a volume pedal, and working with a loop of 
arbitrary duration, I create multiple layers of notes that fade in 
and out, overlapping at random times and in random combinations of 
harmonious and dissonant intervals.

Having created a cloud layer, I switched to the other looper and 
started a piece called "Quarter to Five" and developed two or three 
distinct sections, using different guitar tones and effects.

I recorded the entire mess into the Microtrack and then loaded it 
into the Sonic Solutions digital editing system, where I was able to 
edit out the boring/sloppy/distorted parts and then build the final 
composition by crossfading between the two main sections of "Quarter 
to Five" (one simpler, with more discernable "acoustic" guitar and 
the other fuller, with several layers of legato guitar melody).  I 
also made multiple copies of the cloud bed and arranged them on four 
tracks, out of sync, creating new areas of dissonance and complexity.

Now I'm trying to decide if I'm going to schlep all this gear over to 
the Larkspur Cafe for tonight's show - which has to do with whether I 
feel I'm ready to use it in public after only one day of rehearsal at 
home.



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David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730
Blog:  http://playback.trufun.com