Category Archives: Daily Ambience

Being quiet for a minute

Calming things down a bit, here’s a feedback/delay piece using the track from the 27th as the source material. 2005-12-07

Autofunk

Here’s the computer getting funky. The feedback is generated by the drum and bass track running through the feedback machine and several multi-tap delays. 2005-12-06

EBow Groove

More funk today. This time I’m using my EBow into Looplex. 2005-12-05

Joystick funk

I had a lot of fun with yesterday’s track, and it’s inspired me to pull out the funk again. Today’s is just a sketch for something I’m going to do a lot of work with. I’m using Cubase instead of Live, because it fits the way I work much better. Live handles tempo-locked loops really […]

Cyberlama is on the one

This is out of left field. I decided to play around with Live, which I’ve never used before. This is what happened. 2005-12-03 I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but I used to have a funk band in New York in the late 80s – early 90s called, “Your Monkey’s Not Funny.”

Duet for Cyberlama

Here’s another Delay Lama/joystick track because they’re so much fun to do. This time it’s two voices a fifth apart with harmonizing and filtering that are also controlled by the joystick. 2005-12-02

Variation for marimba

And here’s the version for marimba. There are two lines here, each doubled and phasing. 2005-12-01

Variation for piano

This is a piano variation on the original track. It’s different than yesterday’s variation in that it is not a layering of the same melody line – instead, the piano is playing the lines from all the voices. 2005-11-30

Variation for voices

This is a variation of the piece using only the voice line. It’s back in the cistern. 2005-11-29

Faster decay

I took yesterday’s structure rules and applied it to a reverb with a shorter decay time. The piece is much faster and much shorter, but it still retains the space and feeling of slowness. 2005-11-28