Yugoslavian Song

Contemporary Pianist Age Garcia - 2014 Release.
Symbiosis, produced by Glen Koloktin for Golden Dome Records, brings Garcia's Compositions and piano performance.
Glen Kolotkin recorded famous names as Barbra Streisand,Jimi Hendrix and the classical pianist Glenn Gould.

She's Coming Back

Orpheon Celesta  Round Midnight

So yesterday I was hanging out and trying various melodicas, sound system settings, and playing techniques. I put together a couple clips that may be of interest.

My friend, who is trained in sound engineering, often says this when he hears musicians misuse reverb: “Musicians should have to get a license before using reverb.” Well I am one of those musicians without a license, particularly when I am just fooling around informally. WARNING: Some surf music effects coming up.

The clips in this recording are of course made with my favorite type of melodicas using a freestanding mic. Some clips are recorded from a tube amp with some tube distortion and some are run through my PA which is a very clean amplification system.

I just stuck my pocket recorder with a good mic in front of the speakers, so there is some background noise and the sound of the heating system running on occasion, but it does not take away from the primary purpose, which is to just give you an ideas of some sounds and playing techniques that are possible on the melodica or keyboard harmonica as I like to call it.

Some tracks overlap. I was trying to be fancy.

Here are a few things to listen for:
00:20 Doppler effect, not bending
01:15 Adding high accents notes to an interval 
01:30 Humming into the melodica while playing. Humming adds distortion and harmonics
01:43 Who is that guy?
01:49 Humming into the melodica while playing, then not humming. Humming results in natural acoustic distortion and added harmonics.
02:00 Ghost notes (sympathetic notes or some harmonics) that are sounding without being played. Listen closely. The ghost notes appear to sound softer, in a lower register, and smoother than the notes being played. The most interesting thing is that the third ghost note sounding in each sequence of the four notes (walking down) actually rises up compared to the other three ghost notes. Weird things happen inside a melodica when you choke the outlet.
03:00 Use of high accent notes and choking the outlet for effects
04:09 Use of muffling to achieve wide variation in timbre
04.45 Use of keyclick

Regards,

Lowboy Bootay

Yugoslavian Song

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