Posted song: fretless guitar whipping up chords by looping

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Recorded this live looping piece this morning:
http://www.looproom.com/audio/impro29febr2008.mp3

The first four bars you hear is the recording of four parallel one bar
loops. Then following comes not only traditional modal improvisation
but also improvisation in harmony. This is new to me, in looping, and
something I'm studying at the moment. In that sense this recording is
my pilot test of this looping technique.

Short technical briefing:
The first recorded four loops are set to different Rate/Speed, so
although I play the same one bar guitar pattern into each loop they
play back at different speed and pitch. This creates the dreamy poly
rhythm that kind of "grooves without a beat". As the fifth loop (half
ways into the piece) I layer a much longer loop with layered notes in
prim and fifth interval - no thirds! The thirds I spare for  melody
playing on the top in order to "bend" the harmonies into major or
minor as I improvise chord changes. By foot pedals not only the
layered pad sound is re-pitched on-the-fly but also the four initial
loops are given different speed/rate values, to match different
chords.

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Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)