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[Victor Saumarez]

Firstly, apologies for neglecting this forum.

It's been some time since I posted here, and I see a few spammers have
crept in, which I have now deleted. I've been busy with CDs and books,
and built a new website with a bit more emphasis on selling my stuff.
I also moved from California, and am temporarily holed up in Hawaii.
There is a small jazz scene here, but like everything it's in
recession.

Most of my recordings are exercises in over-dubbing, and I have used
musicians I never get to meet, simply by exchanging recorded parts
over the internet. That's the power of the internet, which raises the
thorny issue of authenticity, lack of interaction, spontaneity
and ...well, just dawn right cheating. All valid I guess, but it's not
as easy as it might seem. Playing the parts of imagined musicians
where arrangements are complex, can be grueling, as you have to swap
roles from rhythm to lead to second harmony part, all while juggling
the record, play and mix buttons. Apart form the moral issues, what
concerned me originally, was the effect of separately layering bass,
and drums onto a rhythm and lead part. I was curious as too where the
driving force for the rhythm was going to sound like it came from.
Thinking about it logically, I suppose you could argue that if all
instruments are locked into each other, they each share an equal role
in driving things along. What is interesting is that there are now a
few websites that offer this dubbing service over the net. Some were
reviewed by SOS and got favorable comments.

Has anyone else done this or considered doing it?

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