[linux-audio-user] Collaboration (was: More Homemade...)

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Thu, 28 Jul, 2005 at 12:31PM +0200, Burkhard Woelfel spake thus:
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> On Thursday 07 July 2005 18:01, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:06:55PM +0100, james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
> > > Interesting.  I have played with loops like you suggest, but I use a
> > > tracker and the offset command.  One I did a long time ago is at
> > > http://dis-dot-dat.net/content/music/dasub.ogg
> > >
> > > For some reason, I never thought of creating a loop myself and then
> > > pulling the same trick.  Now that you've said it, it seems like the
> > > obvious thing to try.
> > >
> > > Thanks for that.
> > >
> > > Oh, and my only ever attempt at doing it all by hand:
> > > http://dis-dot-dat.net/content/music/dn505.ogg
> >
> > Doesn't sound like you could learn much about breakbeats from me ;-)
> > Nice tracks.
> > Only one suggestion: try to layer beats, use 2 pairs of snare and
> > kick.
> > Thorsten Wilms
> 
> Improvising rhythms with my mouth, recording 8- to 16 bar periods and 
> rewriting them with an instrument is a technique I like. 
> 
> Freewheeling might be a nice tool for that. I use a dictaphone with a 
> professional player to transcribe it, one of these machines with a foot 
> switch.
> 
> The approach "makes the sheet less white" for me, gives the beat a natural 
> gesture. The rest of the job kind of crossword puzzle hacking - something to 
> get you through the night ;-)

I like this idea.  I can't help but hum and beatbox my way through
imaginary music, or even along with what I'm listening to, so this
would probably work OK for me.

When I wrote ATT, I'd spent all morning humming the bass and
beatboxing the beat, but I never thought of trying to translate from
that into the music in such a pure way.  I actually sat there doing it
in slow motion and trying to work out what I was actually doing.

Which all seems strange, because I can work up a complex beat with my
mouth, but have trouble knowing exactly what it's made of.

Oh, and I'm being immodest calling what I do betaboxing - it's more
like rhythmical salivation, but the rhythm's there.
 
> BTW, nice to see all the music and collaboration efforts going. Good stuff!
> 
> - - Burkhard
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