Recorded in performance at 119 Gallery (Lowell, MA) on January 25, 2014.

I played a <a href="http://shbobo.net">Shnth</a> with processing and looping. The piece is in three sections. To make this version, I edited out the first couple of minutes of playing and added a fade-in at the beginning and a slight fade-out at the ending, but there was no other post-production other than conversion from 96K/32-bit WAV to 48K 320kpbs MP3.

The first section uses an 8-note <a href="http://www.billalves.com/porgitaro/serenadetuning.html">scale devised by Lou Harrison</a>, and the tones and chords were actuated by my breath as I blew into the Shnth's built-in mic. The second section moves back and forth between two 6-note <a href="http://anaphoria.com/wilsonintroMERU.html">metaslendro</a> scales played on the buttons of the Shnth. The third section returns to the Harrison scale, also played using the buttons.

The two channels of the Shnth's stereo output went through two Grunge distortion pedals (used only in the third section), and were then combined into a single channel. This mono channel was split up and routed through a Moogerfooger Ring Modulator and a FreqBox in parallel, and then recombined along with the original signal and sent to a Moogerfooger Clusterflux, the stereo output of which went to a Deluxe Memory Man with Hazarai and finally a Boomerang III looper, both in stereo. I used an Ekdahl Moisturizer reverb unit on the mixer's FX bus. The recording was made directly off the mixer. All the nutty routing was facilitated by a Repeater Electronics 4x4 passive matrix mixer -- a very helpful device.

The Boomerang III loops throughout in pseudo-Frippertronics fashion. In the second section, the Deluxe Memory Man is temporarily switched into a similar mode, but with a different loop duration, which allowed me to build up clouds of notes that were only approximately predictable (similar to the technique used in <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/collider">Collider</a>). In the first and third sections, the Deluxe Memory Man is used more like a flanger.

Here's a photo of the setup (taken at home before the gig): http://www.flickr.com/photos/seidel/12135979426/

The image is from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DNA-RNA_D-loops,_greatly_exaggerated.jpg

Loop Studies (119 Gallery, 2014-01-25)

Experimental electronic music, mostly in the drone category. This is where I put live sets, one-offs, experiments, and excerpts from longer releases.

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Loop Studies (119 Gallery, 2014-01-25)

Dave Seidel