I ran my fretless guitar into a program designed by my musical mentor at school which analyzes the sonic spectrum of notes played in real time and resynthesizes them, adding overtones for a pad effect.  The song comes from a raga (roughly the Indian classical equivalent of a scale)that I created.  Unlike a western scale, in a raga the notes are played with designated inflections and order.  This is the first installment in an ongoing project.

Fretless Guitar Raga With Live Electronics

Starts with a stupid pop-punk sounding riff that I came up with while practicing Bach on guitar.  Probably too notey and sloppily played to be anything.  Then I go into some Jimi Hendrix kinda shit.  Then it gets psychedelic.  Using the ring modulator effect in Logic X.  Crazy, spacey and incredibly dissonant.  Ending with some bluesy, funky bullshit.

Playing guitar is fun!

Sketches 1-22-16

Idea for a hip hop or pop track.  Maybe one of my rapper or singer friends wants to do something with it?

IanMcCulloch