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Improvised music performance.
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Spanish Fly
1978. - Drums, Tenor Saxophone and Electric Bass.
Improvised session recorded in the lounge room one evening with Ian and Johnny. I suggested that we
'just start quietly, build a crescendo and then taper off'. This was the result.
Roland Wasp 1980.
- Rhythm Sequencer, Phase Shifter, ARP Wasp Synthesizer
and a Roland Series 101 Synthesizer. Recorded late one night at Arne Hanna's
house in Melbourne. I was demonstrating to Arne a technique of feeding
the output of a electronic drum machine into a electronic phase shifting
device, then 'tuning' the resonant filter of the phase shifter to any
particular note, thus producing a rhythmic backing track to play to. We
jammed for a while and then recorded this on a cheap cassette recorder,
hence the bass deficient recording!
Crossing the Fjord 1981.
- Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, Roland
Synthesizer, 2 x Otari Reel to Reel taper recorders. Recorded from a 'live
to air' performance on a community radio station. The tape players were
set up in such a way that they shared the same magnetic tape, the first
player recording the input signal but with the output set a zero, the
second machine was placed about two meters away and it played back the
recorded signal with the output fed back into the first machine (Robert
Fripp first used this looping technique in the early 1970's). I then re-mastered
the recording and slowed it down by a factor of four.
Parenthesis 1982. - Bass guitars, acoustic guitars,
piano, saxophone and synthesizer. I multi-tracked the bass line about 12 times and mixed them to a stereo
pair and added a few more tracks of acoustic guitar. I then invited Ian
to play some piano except he deliberately wasn't monitoring the recording,
he was merely given instructions through the headphones to 'Start' and
'Stop' at the appropriate time. Truly some inspired playing from someone
who doesn't play the keyboards!
Man with Bongo's 1982. - Multi-track guitar feed back, Roland synthesizer and bongo drum.
Inspired by 2001: A space Odyssey that I had recently seen in the cinema.
Requiem 4 1985. - Steinway Grand Piano and Plate reverb. I set the single microphone
(AKG414) at a distance of 11 meters from the piano and added some subtle
plate reverb to enhance the harmonics.