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signal - otherworld - live improv
track: 01
recorded: 20150405
duration: 6:05
type: ambient
straight out of the box, loaded into Kontakt - trialled a few sounds, and then ran across this beauty - so I chose that voice, and played this piece, it's a live improvised performance, using a few simple chords, but I am using the "pulse" of the patch, to make the song work - by selecting my chord duration very carefully, I was able to get the pulse to do different things - depending on how quickly I released, or didn't release, the keys.
but for me, this...otherworldly tone - this is really what defines output as not just the newest, but also, one of the coolest and best software manufacturers, because OK, they set out to make a "pulse-based" tool - well, most manufacturers would concentrate solely on the pulses, but what output have done here, at least in this instance, is that they have, first and foremost, created a patch that is so luscious, so attractive to the passing ear, as it were - when a musician trials voicings on a synth, sometimes, there are one or two that immediately catch your ear - and those are the ones you end up going back to again and again when you are seeking a particular kind of beauty for a piece - and this is one sound in "signal" that I will absolutely use again.
I thought that the simple chord pattern of the song, repeated in various different configurations, had a fairly hypnotic effect, giving the song an unusual ambience that it, on paper, probably shouldn't have had. but between that beautiful patch, and that hypnotic pulsing - it's just worked, and I don't really want to analyse too closely exactly why that is - why question what is clearly just a lovely sound, a lovely improv - I was very fortunate here!
ambient loop guitarist dave stafford performed on stage with robert fripp and the orchestra of crafty guitarists in early
2009, and again with robert fripp and the symphony of crafty guitarists in 2015, and has worked with ambient music and looping for over twenty years. stafford has a rich back catalogue of ambient and loop music, +rock, prog or acoustic crafty guitar music: www.pureambient.com...more
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