Fluorescent Grey - Improvised Electronic Music pt 3
RLR96969
Part 3
1996
Mortal Kombat Acid
Fiberglass
Drum Machine & Bass
download zip of Pt 3
Information about this recording... During the latter part of June 2007 I decided to experiment with making electronic songs without a computer. I was always intrigued by the idea of simple improvising with an TR808, TB303, and TR909 but not so excited about the sounds they made. I had been collecting drum machines over the years but never really used them beyond recording bits into the computer and mangling the crap out of them, or triggering clips via MIDI whilst sequencing them in Cubase. Using the computer only as a recording device, I would start the recording to force myself to keep moving forward with the beat structure, layers and melody. Starting with an empty 16 step pattern, I would slowly build up a song template but never stop the clock to evaluate it. Once I had made something that I was satisfied with, I would immediately modify or progress the pattern to the next part. I would take comfort in the knowledge that it had been recorded, and this method eliminated any need to save the part on the drum machine itself. After recordings had piled up I would begin to edit them together. Typically around 30 minutes of raw improvised material would be distilled into a 5 minute song, and care was taken to preserve the natural progression of the original jam. The continuity was maintained by sequencing the parts in the same order that they had been played during the free form session. The only overdubbing or post production effects on these recordings occur when a new raw recording fades in at the end of track. Some jam sessions became three or four tracks, whereas others were narrowed down to just one.
This is the 3rd installment in the Improvised Electronic Music series. These tracks are varying BPMs unlike the last 2 installments and are not designed to be mashed up.
It's possible this won't be the last one, stay tuned!
- Robbie / fluorescent grey
equipment used:
elektron monomachine (master clock)
midi slaved to monomachine:
jomox xbase09 analog drum machine sequencer
yamaha dx200 fm synth step sequencer
elektron machinedrum uw mkII
simmons Sds6 step sequencer
korg electribe ESX1
doepfer maq/16 analog sequencer
nanoloop v1 with gameboy color
midi out from korg electribe & doepfer maq/16 tracks 1 & 2:
doepfer, blacet, plan B, and motm analog modular synthesizer system
trigger out from simmons sds6:
vermona drm1 drum synthesizer unit
all audio sent to
Mackie 1604-VLZ3 Mixer
Aux Sends of Mackie 1604-VLZ3 Mixer sent to sampler input of Korg Electribe ESX1
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