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Re: "getting away with" glitches
I think Adrian Belew's "Lone Rhino" is him improvising
over his very young daughter who's experimenting on
piano and happened to get recorded. Chaos can often
be nice.
--- "nick@12testing.net" <nick@12testing.net> wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2006 at 23:52, tEd ® kiLLiAn wrote:
>
> > It's a fun challenge to make someting "artful"
> > and "satifying" out of the haphazard glitches that
> human error
> > (especially my human error) induces and produces.
>
> Absolutely. I remember about 15 years ago I was
> recording a
> soundscape that seemed to be going well until my 3
> year old daughter
> helped me by adding some "un-volumed" notes. Cursing
> fluently, I
> carried on to a conclusion. As I listened back,
> dreading the moment,
> it sounded perfectly in context and actually brought
> some life to the
> piece.
>
> I still have similar moments, especially when using
> the guitar synth.
> Many of my patches have a slow attack, so I don't
> need to juggle with
> the volume control, but there's also a bank of
> kotos, banjos & so
> forth. What a joyful moment when with a misplaced
> tap of the toe, a
> loud mini-moog bass note rings out over a
> contemplative section! As
> Ted says, the fun is then to "make it work".
>
> In many ways, looping is the perfect example of the
> motto "if you
> play a bum note, play it again and pretend it's
> jazz".
>
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Nick Robinson
>
>
>
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