I was impressed by the well-thought-out arrangement!

a sweet little break-up, heartbreak tune from the 1989 ep, statik 1. satie-esque piano and melodic reverb-guitar

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in november she said (1989)

P = 3 : ?

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I've been trying to make Jazz music by electronic means for a while now. It's been pretty hard.

So much about the ethos of Jazz is dependent on the traditional notion of musicianship: a group of people in a room, trading improvised passages. So much of its tradition is shaped by virtuosos. The thing is, even though I play 'real' instruments, I don't play them well enough and also (and this might be strange to admit) I don't even like playing them that much. I started playing the saxophone when I was 15 and then went for 20 years without playing, I got back into it last year, but I don't really enjoy the process. So I sold it. Now I have a clarinet (because it's quieter, cheaper and sweeter), but I also got a wind synth.

Yeah, the wind synth is not the same, but it's close enough for what I want, it allows me to literally breath some emotion into what I play without it being loud or overly hard to intonate and I have a lot more fun this way. This track features me playing the wind synth.

But another part of Jazz is the collaboration. So I invited the amazing producer and guitarist @ubo-music to contribute some jazz guitar improvisation and that changed everything. It brought a totally new life to the piece.

Overall, the process was: write a very repetitive pattern for the keys and the bass, then use that to play the virtual sax. I sent that to ubo, who send back this guitar part. Based on his part, I then re-recorded a big chunk of the sax parts. After that, I went back and played the keys again to add flourishes and variations, same for the bass. For the drums, I used Superior Drummer and made a bit of a collage of midi parts (I love doing this, it's like sampling, but for midi.)

In the end, even though nobody played together, I hope it still feels organic and if it does, it's because we did collaborate and traded passages, only they didn't happen in realtime.

Honestly, it's strange calling it Jazz. I have so much respect for the roots and traditions of the genre, but it has also evolved so much since the early days in New Orleans that I think I'm entitled, just like everybody else, to bastardize it in whatever way I see fit.

Jazz III (feat. ubo)

Started  creating image texture of tree branches- used this in image synth in metasynth software with various custom scales then mapped this to custom instrument made of squeaking and banging homemade percussion instruments/rubbish.

for Naviar Haiku no, 497
The gate shuts
with a loud groan
The temple sleeps
(translated Alex Fyffe) Haiku by Hōsai Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

The Squeaky Gate At The Entrance To the Temple

The Squeaky Gate At The Entrance To the Temple_NaviarHaiku497

Midnight ballroom 150 bpm

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Cat Doctor?

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Retooling for the future, I’ll be back soon.

All works for this project have been created in Korg Gadget 2 using an iphone and assorted ipads.  Lyrics are an SOS message sent from a future timeline.

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