Re: “First Meeting” trio concert downloads
Per Boysen
> You made my morning, Per.
> Moving atmospheres (First, Fourth, Sixth) and each sound is perfectly
> balanced. Really good. Any video recordings ?
No video recording I'm afraid. The secret behind the "well balanced
sound" is that it was recorded in mono on a little dictaphone standing
by the mixer booth a bit out in the audience. So the recorder got the
PA sound exactly as we played it. And since we were "a laptop band" -
I mean, no loud stuff on stage, most stuff going line in - we had
quite good control over the live sound. We regard this first meeting a
lucky experiment and are talking about maybe playing together again in
the future. It was a blast to play with such good musicians! The music
just creates itself over and over...
I did some "washing up" of the mono recording in Logic; balanced
frequencies with multi compression and EQ to match the horrific
acoustics of the venue, set a bit of stereo spread on the higher
frequencies ("cheating stereo"), added a little bit of a plate reverb
by convolution technique (set to extra stereo spread) and finally
mixing the (previously) mono file by snagging a note here and there,
by an aux send knob, to lead out into a bouncing dub style tape delay
plug-in on a bus.
I think one interesting aspect of this group improvisation is the
frequent use of live looping together with the trio band. We were two
musicians instantly looping with no inter sync and it worked out quite
ok. I remember I sometimes "fixed" deviating tempi by kicking my
"retrigger all loops" pedal and even the Record Loop button that
empties the looper and starts a new looping session from scratsch.
It's also very pleasant to listen to how nicely Kristofer stretches
the tempo. He is a drummer that not only plays on what is heard "right
here and now" but also relates to what happened thirty seconds back in
the music and to what might come some ten seconds later. That "split
view" makes it possible for him to play "a bit off" and make it add an
awesome musical feel rather than "sounding wrong".
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
Bernhard Wagner
Luckily it somehow got posted to LDOT, otherwise I wouldn't have
known about it...
Best,
Bernhard