[LAU] good players

[Ken Restivo]

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:19:04AM -0800, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
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> On 10 November 2007 at 17:22, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
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> > I haven't had very good luck doing collaboration via email and
> > ftp; it seems to go much smoother and be a lot more fun live
> > with everyone in the same room, but I'm willing to try.
> 
> Sure, live is like nothing else.  I want to explore what the 
> strengths and weaknesses of distance collaboration might be.
> 
> > I'd imagine that linux audio geeks will have have more tools in
> > common than musical styles or goals in common, but that might
> > result in some very interesting music indeed.
> 
> All those differences are the same that one can experience with
> live players, no?

Sure, but you'd usually pick musicians based on some common style. Still, I'm sure whatever we come up with will be an interesting hybrid.

> 
> > Then again, we probably all use a pretty diverse suite of tools
> > too. What would the lingua franca be? An Ardour project? Ogg or
> > wavpack files? MIDI files?
> >
> > Would communication be over email? Via IRC or Jabber or
> > something more real-time-like?
> 
> Man, you ask really good questions.
> 
> > My stuff is here: http://www.restivo.org/blog/
> 
> Nice stuff there for sure!  Being a drummer, I gotta ask, what
> are you using to get your sounds?  I really enjoy the odd-time
> stuff.
> 

Thanks! The drums are Hydrogen, almost exclusively. I like its the random-velocity and "humanize" tempo features. Though I've played a bit with tapeutape and seq24 and/or rosegarden too. There are some PD patches that do interesting drum things as well.

The live drummer I've been playing with lately ( http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/169/0/morning-bell-jam-2007-07-08.ogg ), is such a monster, that nowadays no drum machine or sequencer sounds very good to me anymore.

Last night, he was playing a pattern of triplet, triplet, 4 straight 16ths, then a sextuplet in the space of 5 16ths. I'm sure there's a way to get Hydrogen to do that, but no sequencer I know of is going to *think up* stuff like that, on the fly, in the middle of a rehearsal.

- -ken
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