Sunday, January 12, 2020
Week 1 Blog Assignment- Nick Froelich
This is a video I made for the SMTD scholarship student showcase this year, which generally showcases the type of music I perform and make. I also love playing piano in different jazz and improv styles along with writing singer-songwriter music.
This semester I'm interested in using sampling, electronic production, and live effects processing in a performance with acoustic instruments. I think this performance I found by Mattokind through the Ableton YouTube channel is a good representation of this.
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Live effects processing seems to me like an under-explored field of musical performance. The emotional impact of hearing these acoustic instruments heavily and dynamically processed is strong as it takes the memories and emotions connected to these familiar instruments and changes or adds to them.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of great stuff here! I love the beatboxing combined with the jazzy tones, they worked well together. The Mattokind performance is also incredible, I would be really interested in finding a way to perform something like that while making the audience aware of how sound is being manipulated.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of respect for any modality of improvisation. I like the succession of layers and how you integrated beat boxing! The energy of live-action electronic and non-electronic integration in the piece you picked is really intriguing. Sampling can add so much depth to a score.
ReplyDeleteNick these keys are so smooth. We should collaborate in this class or outside of it. Would be super interested to see what we could produce. As for the Mattokind stuff, I really enjoy a group that does live sampling and does it well. I find it wildly impressive because it's hard to find great samples, and even harder to create entire song structures with them that challenge an audience's expectations.
ReplyDeleteYour production and songwriting is so fun to listen to. Love that you used your vocal percussion for this. I think it would be really interesting to blend that more synth replica sound of your vocal percussion with a drum kit. Could be very groovy. Your second video does a really masterful job at blending both electronic and acoustic elements.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your approach to music making, the fusion of styles always sounds so clean. Maybe you could combine extra drum samples with the vocal chops, that might be cool. The live sampling in the video you posted was so trippy and cool, I love that style.
ReplyDeleteAs a vocalist, I really connected with your work for the SMTD showcase. It sounds great! I also felt the editing you complimented the audio nicely, especially the entrance of the vocals.
ReplyDeleteI've had a couple experiences with live effects processing as a viewer/listener, but just a taste of it. I am always so impressed when I experience it because the sounds a textures created seem so complex it is hard for me to imagine creating such a performance myself. It would be cool to explore this in this class!
Wow. I love the conglomeration of instruments and sounds in both pieces. They definitely have a calming quality which makes me forget about time passing during certain stretches (especially in Mattokind). I'm imagining how movement could correspond to the different parts and physicalize the aural looping that's happening.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of performing electronic components of music live; its proven to be valuable in terms of the delivery of the performance and I would love to see how you could push the boundaries of what could be performed live with electronics through sampling.
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate your layering and how the video felt really close up and personal to your craft. I like that style of recording and the visual perspective that you share with the audience.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of interesting how rarely the musicians in the mattokind video look at each other. It suggests a different kind of musical communication that emerges, especially when tempo is dictated by a drum machine, and a kind of independence in their roles in building this piece up.
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