So I just got a Keith McMillen Quneo - it's a MIDI controller/touch surface that can be assigned to loads of things. I'm most interested in using it as an instrument, playing percussion and synth parts on it. 

At the moment, I'm using Ableton Live as a sound engine, and then running the audio into my normal bass+looping set up. So no pre-programmed or presampled loops, just a load of experiments in live playing and my usual exploration of wobbly time. 

I've always found ambiguous time to be more interesting than things that are metric, but it's really interesting what happens when you do that with drum sounds, where your ears really expect them to be closer to in time (I know the reactions I've had from some students when first playing them D'Angelo tracks or J Dilla productions...) - so I'm seeing how far I can push this... After repeated listening to this, I hear the slightly out-of-tune-ness of the very first bass note as more 'out' that the rhythm ;) 

Here's the first publicly-listenable experiment from that set... Enjoy!

Nearly Human (bass + Quneo live looping experiment)

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