Are You Tracking Me?

Recorded in Mid 2012. A different view of Twenty Three, dubbed up. Using the old Ice Cream Man percussion track. The bass was chopped up using a John Cage I-Ching inspired chance process. Are they tracking me? They would be if I spoke of what I know.

01 - Are You Tracking Me?

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You Said You Saw

The ear is in the eye of the bum hole der. Seen there is no scene or unseen. Is the sore saw sorry? Worry turret tut tut. Recorded in 2011. Born out of experiments with programmed percussion treated with effects and enabled by the aquisition of beautiful bass guitar. I can't remember now who the wailing lady was but I always do multiple mixes of tunes before the multitracks are necessarily wiped and the ones without her on are just not the same. I like this one a lot, there is something about the guitar solo that I am particularly proud of.

01 - You Said You Saw.

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Synthia

Out of interest I took the two improvisations for prepared guitar that I had done and mixed them together. I had done some improvisations on the Moog Prodigy synthia size A which I didn't quite know what to do with. Some of the modulated bird sounds I had created reminded me of synth sounds so I put some of the moogy non-boogie over the two imps for prepgit. I didn't know whether to share any of the experimental things I had done but in the end I thought it may be worthwhile and someone somewhere might be interested in hearing them. For those it doesn't appeal to - this is the last one (for now).

01 - Synthia

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Artificiant

These two experiments were recorded in 2011. I am interested in various types and forms of music even though some would not consider some of it as music. These two were both inspired by different artists whom I admire though I am not going to say who they are or were. I may just come up with the usual nonsensical crap or not. Probably not in this case. The last few and next couple of posts are by way of clearing out stuff that has built up as a means to go on onto the future as it were. The usual crap creeping in as it weren't. Oblique fashion.

01 - 4db
02 - Artificiant

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Modulated Birds v Prepared Guitar

Recorded in April 2012. I had done something similar to this before but felt like doing it again. The improvisations for prepared guitar are posted elsewhere. I doctored a load of bird sounds by modulating them through the modulating system and mixed the results up with the gitbox imps. Thin Norman batting on a sticky wicket attacked by hordes of exotic resonating ornithological affluvia.

01 - Prepgit Modbirds 1
02 - Prepgit Modbirds 2

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Smell The Fear

This was one of the first things that I did after managing to save up and get a lovely Fender Jazz Bass. Fear is something that I believe no-one should have to experience but certain elements wish to encourage it as much as possible as they feed on it. So feel the fear and do it anyway and then the fear will disappear. The synthesizer is a Moog Prodigy which had not been used for many many years and did not sound at all well for a while until I left it switched on for hours on end. That seemed to burn off the dust which was causing all the problems. This came out of experiments I was doing with with programming electronic percussion and then treating the results with effects. Recorded in 2011.

01 - Smell The Fear.

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Whatness...What It Is

I can't quite remember exactly when this was recorded but it was in 2011 and named Quiddity. The drum loop is Penny Rimbaud and the words are Ezra Pound. It starts off as a strict 12 bar and then deviates. Shall I make more fictitious claims that The Baked Bean Band were involved, no I don't think so as they are a figment of ? . Words missing ? It was extremely difficult to get Ezra Pound to agree to do it as he died in 1972 but somehow we managed it between us, well...between me. In the end it was so effortless he didn't even know he was there. How long is my nose now.

01 - Quiddity

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