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Real instruments really played. Whatever next? : Show Me Heavy
“Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.”
― Shunryu Suzuki
So I decided to have a bit of an, er, ‘jam’ with some of the musical instruments I can’t play but which have nevertheless somehow managed to accumulate over the past few years: cigar box guitar, mountain dulcimer, electric bass, all played live direct into AUM and tape player looped, via my cheap as chips ten quid mini audio interface, along with some literally random electronic noise from my standalone Error Instruments Cloudbusting box gated through Perforator, doom drum from a certain recently forum-disappeared link and some pad swells from my Roland S1, which I also can’t play. Not a sequencer in sight (not even the one on the S1, just pushed the chiclet keys old school.) If I was being fancy, I’d call it an improvisation.
So, er, yeah. There it is, take it or leave it, I guess? 
Sidenote: an article in the Guardian last week said that having creative hobbies in retirement was worth up to a decade in more youthful ‘brain age’. So don’t think of this as music. More an investment in geriatric healthcare.
Comments
..it all sounded good to me.😃
Interesting piece of work, liked it, frenq
One of the advantages of not developing your playing ability to virtuosity is that you can keep things very simple with little effort. The more you learn an instrument the harder it is to be inventive with less notes.
Please keep doing things like this as its simplicity and unconventional approach make it more unique than anything that any virtuoso can compose.
@Pxlhg @Frenq @michael_m : thanks all for the listens and comments. Very heartening!
Don’t worry, Michael: I can absolutely guarantee after 40 plus years of wishing (though not practising, which might actually make a difference), there is precisely zero chance of me developing anything like competence, let alone virtuosity!
As inventive as ever 🙏
Very cool. “Creative hobby” is an understatement
I love the analogue feel of the production, noisey and gritty in all the right places. This really has an amazing sense of space.
I'd also say you managed to play those instruments you can't play pretty well.
I think @michael_m commented to me not long ago about the advantages of not being a virtuoso (I’m a new piano player). My interpretation is that what often sounds best to most folk’s ears is simple stuff, rather than more challenging music which takes repeated listens to get into.
Anyway, I think this piece is a riotous success @Svetlovska !
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. I’m more likely to find something simple and catchy on an instrument I don’t play too well than I am on one I do play well, and I think that’s true for most people.
Really like this one. I get a strong Blade Runner vibe from it.
If you’re ever hired to make a movie soundtrack, I know it would be an awesome listen.
Ah, music that is willing to follow its own call. Thank you for that. I love it.
Oh, thanks all for your very kind comments, you have made an old bird very happy.
This was a departure for me, using so many real instruments played in real time (albeit only to create very short loops - the chances of me screwing up rise exponentially the longer I attempt to play.)
There’s probably a proper name for this, but I’ve always particularly loved the sound a bass makes when you fret two adjacent strings a couple of frets apart, then slide them together up and down by a couple of more frets. That two note chord effect sends chills through me. It’s something I associate (probably wrongly) with the sound of the early Killing An Arab era Cure, and the fretless bass noises Japan used. And on a related point, the mountain dulcimer came out with something of the drone quality vibe, though not the depth and resonance of, a Tagel harp, just about my most favourite noise I’ve discovered in recent years:
(Best comment on the YouTubes re this: (“Everyone who plays one of these always looks exactly like I thought they would.” )
I found the process of recording live heart-stoppingly tense in comparison to my usual random noise or strictly sequenced modes of operation. My respect for people who somehow just naturally play real instruments getting rhythm and timing and pitch right ALL THE TIME just cranked up several more notches.
I enjoyed it, though, in a ‘hurling myself down the Cresta run’ kind of way, and it has made me re-up my sub to Loopy Pro, and have another go at trying to understand it, as proper looping looks like it could be fun, if only I can get myself over the hump of not getting LP at all…