Live Drums And Synth Playing No Click No Edits. Real time feel.

matching nails

One recent session with Bryan led to this exciting piece started with FullBucket's Blooo. We recorded several guitar takes in addition to handmade electronic sounds and organized them together.

Image courtesy of @izily.art

The Black Chair ft. BAK (mix #4)

cover of John Fahey's Sunflower River Blues
Recorded with Zoom H4N Pro internal mics

Sunflower River Blues (John Fahey cover)

Ruin Academy

Here's another synth improvisation with Mike Mayfield. Mike is behind the drum machines and synths, and I'm playing a Roland VP-330 string machine. --Alec

Mike / Alec synth jam 2

a mildly generative, loopy soundscape made with the kilpatrick audio phenol patchable synthesizer and an eventide space reverb.

in memory of josh warren, a friend who shared more good music with me than i could ever imagine.

note: this track fades in *very* gradually over the first minute. (I may edit for soundcloud, thought?)

aleatoric ascenscion (for josh w)

KEXP Audioasis Joshua Warren Tribute 8 17 19 with DJ Sharlese

Recorded by Alec Vance for 59th Disquiet Junto project "vowels" at http://disquiet.com/2013/02/14/disquiet0059-vwls/

According to the project instructions, I rolled 3 dice and got a 2, 1 and another 2, representing the vowels E, A and another E. I sang 10-15 seconds into a looper of each, using the notes of the same name as the vowels to build a minimal chord of the root (low E), fifth (A) and the octave of the E. Minimal chorus, phasing and delay  was used via guitar pedals, then each was recorded through a tube amp with spring reverb. When mixing I put an auto-pan on each of the 3 vowel tracks at a different rate.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

aleatoric - Sun worship [disquiet0059-vwls]

“There are certain abilities required now in order to play this sort of music that I call intuitive music. Musicians must learn to become the opposite of egocentric.... When you become like what I call a radio receiver, you are no longer satisifed with expressing yourself; you are not interested in yourself at all. You will be amazed at what happens to you when this state is achieved: You become a medium.”
—Karlheinz Stockhausen


Mike / Alec synth jam 2

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