This is a live recording from band practice on 13 Jan 2010

We were all too lethargic to do any proper practicing so we just jammes out new tunes all evening. This is probably the most accessible (!)

Two microphones + a Roland Fantom coming into my laptop then looped + fx'ed with Live 7.
Beats from the Dusty Circuit kit in Battery 2.

Tables

A live improvisation from a rehearsal session on 12 Dec 2007

Wrong Turn

This is the last 5 minutes of a 55 minute long jam that we recorded during our last band practice.

Not much looping on this one - just Con experimenting with an acoustic bass, and me experimenting with electric guitar.

Sounds pretty mellow though - and just what I needed after a very hectic start to 2012.

I will not give up

Sporadic

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Cobwebs

Do that thing again

An exploration in generative music creation in Ableton live.
Piano, bass and pad being driven by a single note processed by Ableton's random MIDI effect.
Marimba being driven by the Melodic Steps max for live device.

Listless

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At our last rehearsal I was messing round with various delay effects, inspired by marc fisher's dust breeding blog ( http://unrecnow.com/dust/ ).

I set up a track in Ableton Live which accepted input from a microphone and ran it through a Live audio effects rack consisting of several parallel delay chains with differing delay times and post-delay effects (filters, phasers, resonators, etc).

Jim then played his Fantom synth while I input some sounds into the mic using an acousic guitar (I don't think you could say that I played the guitar - some of the best sounds I got were when I picked it up!!).

Very little stuff is looped, maybe just a couple of melodies from the Fantom.

I recorded the output using Live's resample feature. The resulting track was about 40 minutes long, the first section of which is presented here.

Shifting sands pt1

Yesterday's band practice saw us revisit a tune we haven't tried in ages. Took us four attempts to get this version, which I'm pretty happy with. The drums are maybe a little loud at the start, but its easily our most concise track to date.


Words I Struggle With

A live looping band.

Current lineup:
Jim - keyboards, vocals
Con - trombone, vocals
Steve - laptop

Other members:
Becky - saxaphone, flute

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