Conner post 1, 2 videos
This is an ambient improvisation I recorded for an album that is in the works. I used vibraphone as well as a bowl of water filled with loose jingle bells and washers.
This next clip interests me as a possibility for a collaboration between acoustic instruments and live processing.
I can imagine combining both of those videos and taking your ambient improvisation a step further with adding processing. I wonder how many layers of abstraction you could use to take a live improv session to a whole new level.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your ambient improvisation and especially the timbre of the vibraphone. I think that it could go really well when mixed with electronic elements.
ReplyDeleteWow!! Love this vibe improvisation, what microphone did you use to record this! it sounds so clear, I can hear all of your dynamic choices really well. Also this second video is so interesting, I've never heard anything quite like it!!
ReplyDeleteI was surprised by how much I enjoyed the timbre of the bells and washers in the water. Music like this would indeed go well with some signal processing.
ReplyDeleteI agree that an electronic layer -- whether processing, synthesis, or both -- would be a great addition to the kind of work you are doing in the first example. In particular because the instruments and timbres you chose have such a focus on beating and overtones.
ReplyDeleteKara-Lis Coverdale. Wow. How has her music not been on my radar? I'd love to know more about this piece. In some ways it evokes the kind of minimalist saturation you get with some of Philip Glass -- in the macro-sense an overwhelming wash but at the micro-level, intricately composed -- but here, the surface level is much timbrally richer and less orderly. It goes through radical textural changes that are almost unnoticeable in the moment.