the fear is real.
my senior recital was a full bach cello suite plus a few other things. can’t imagine why that seemed like a good idea.
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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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the fear is real.
my senior recital was a full bach cello suite plus a few other things. can’t imagine why that seemed like a good idea.
This 100%. I think it's fine to have fallow periods as a creative person. Sometimes it's just not happening. My plan on going into the woods was to come out with an album. That didn't happen. Mostly because I'm an idiot and took my Oxi One instead of a Eurorack setup I'd arranged just for the occasion because it would "take up less room". Turned out to be a PITA because the particular functionality I wanted on Oxi was promised but hadn't arrived (it's now in beta). So I said **** it and just spent the month experimenting with sequencing approaches.
The big moment for me was when the nearby artist residency was having an open house, and we walked through one studio after another and looked at work in progress and talked with all the artists (some were of course more interesting than others). Each of them was just working on one element of their process. That's when it hit me: instead of worrying about the Linnstrument, which was my plan, I'd mess with different ways to produce melody.
Also, I have 3 things in the pipeline right now so it's not like I need to finish more music. Two are done and waiting for art. The third is my instrumental band, which I am just over the moon to NOT be the one mixing.
Awesome! I'm listening now. The start feels very bebop. One small criticism--I think the audio level is a bit low. But you've got a great live sound. And I'm shocked that there are no pedals so far.
At some point I want to do a solo show too.
gonna respond to these two halves.
1. i find it useful to shift gears and work on other stuff when i’m in “gestation mode.” that could be working on bass stuff when the synth stuff isn’t happening or vice-versa. recently i’ve been digitizing a bunch of stuff from the 80s and cleaning it up a bit and loading it onto bandcamp. my thing is just keep going…
that visit to the residency sounds interesting.
2. volume on the vid: mistakes were made. first was the signal chain thing i outlined in a previous post. second was sitting right in front of the speakers. (i’ve done other solo gigs where i didn’t do that.) third was erring on the side of not overwhelming the mics. (i’m gonna bandcamp this gig. i cleaned up the audio a bit, but i can only crank it too much cause there’s a fair dynamic range.)
the whole idea of this was to not use pedals. and, yes, probably too much jazz phrasing… but i was thinking about people like anthony braxton and evan parker when i was prepping for this and it’s kind of how i do this stuff (and there is a deconstructed standard in there). when i do it again, i’ll probably do it with the elements setup for more timbral variation.
thanks for listening.
fwiw, solo gig with effects:
Gig at the local indy record store today.
I think I won’t be kicking the Meatbox on to avoid damage to anything, i’m not joking that pedal is absolutely batshizzle nuts in small venues. It almost unbearable in a small room, some people have have nauseous feelings and had to go outside when I kicked it on…….
I definitely need a band that goes back to my roots, hip hop rnb jazz soul type stuff, unfortunately zero scene for that in town.
I think I won’t be kicking the Meatbox on to avoid damage to anything, i’m not joking that pedal is absolutely batshizzle nuts in small venues. It almost unbearable in a small room, some people have have nauseous feelings and had to go outside when I kicked it on…….
I definitely need a band that goes back to my roots, hip hop rnb jazz soul type stuff, unfortunately zero scene for that in town.
This weekend we are mixing the Volte record (that's my instrumental band). It's me, the guitarist and the mixing engineer. First, I LOVE not being in charge of mixing but knowing enough to make trouble. I might never mix a rock record again. Second, we may be the only band in history where people keep saying "turn me down, I can't hear enough of the other instruments."
I bet you could make one. There's a pretty huge hip hop scene over here. I don't know it that well but friends are into it. On paper hip hop is way more popular than rock so presumably there is an audience waiting for you. Unless Quebec City is really that conservative.
All hip hop is in Montreal, there’s a little here but it’s very small.
And the biggest acts all moved to MTL about 10 years ago, my friend is cousins with one « big » name crews in the Province.
does “no scene” equal “no players who want to do it”?
if there are players, arguably, you could form a band and see if people like it.
(i understand that it’s easier when there’s a scene.)
No players.
The jazzers aren’t at all interested in anything else than playing stuff before 1960
i get that. i have a friend who’s a jazz drummer who hooked up with a rapper and a sort (post) rock bass player.
maybe it’s just looking for freaks and making something happen?
just a thought …
an addendum
maybe it’s better to find your fellow weirdos than worry about style?
maybe it’s better to find your fellow weirdos than worry about style?
That’s exactly what my band is already.
Weirdos ftw!!!
maybe have to find some more, I definitely miss my roots musically.
Forward we go
Man, I need to take ^^^that to heart! It's been way too long since I've consciously said to myself I am just working on this...rather than using [whatever "this" is] as a springboard or motif or kernal of an idea, and then trying to develop that into some much larger more encompassing thing. I keep doing <<<that, and then getting distracted or frustrated and so it feels like the successes are few and far between. Small, incremental successes at This are probably far more encouraging than repeated failures at That.
As I am working towards extricating myself permanently from NYC and wondering what sort of musical collaborators I will find in Tucson, I really need to keep ^^^that in mind: Find the people who think about music -- and food, and sports, and home-improvement projects, and love, and life -- in engaging and compatible ways first, rather than looking for people who happen to be making music that sounds engaging...because ultimately you're going to want to find people you can stand being in the same room with. The sounds that ultimately come out will be infused with the common ideology regardless of what genre it seems to conform to
...I hope
@uglybassplayer this discussion reminds me of how I wound up in my current rather good musical situation. It was around 2015 that I finally got my act together to post an old fashioned Craigslist ad as a bassist search for other musicians. True to me, it was rather long and detailed, and included some very specific requirement: I do not want to give up my day job and to be famous, no sexist lyrics, and a few other things. There’s a story about how that came to happen but that’s not this story.
As anyone on this BBS would expect, most replies completely ignored what I wrote. The two funniest were one a singer songwriter (I said no singer-songwriter situations) who had terrible and intentionally racist lyrics, and a guy who wrote about how he was being produced by so and so famous producer (never heard of him) and was ready to go on tour and sent me a terrible cock rock song that was actually about cocaine, just to add to the cliche.
But not all of them! That summer I spent a fair amount of time discovering by the hour jamspaces around the city and meeting other musicians. Most of it was failure. My knowledge of the jam spaces led to the formation of the dad rock band after I told the guy who would become the bandleader how it all worked. Which led to my wife taking up drums. A few months later, I got a message from the guitarist in my instrumental band. Musically it wasn’t anything I would have thought of on my own, but it also was a place where I could really develop as a player and come up with new things for me and play a big part in the writing of the music.
All this is to say, Quebec is a smaller place, Craigslist is even less of what it was then. But if you are in search of something, go look for it.
As anyone on this BBS would expect, most replies completely ignored what I wrote. The two funniest were one a singer songwriter (I said no singer-songwriter situations) who had terrible and intentionally racist lyrics, and a guy who wrote about how he was being produced by so and so famous producer (never heard of him) and was ready to go on tour and sent me a terrible cock rock song that was actually about cocaine, just to add to the cliche.
But not all of them! That summer I spent a fair amount of time discovering by the hour jamspaces around the city and meeting other musicians. Most of it was failure. My knowledge of the jam spaces led to the formation of the dad rock band after I told the guy who would become the bandleader how it all worked. Which led to my wife taking up drums. A few months later, I got a message from the guitarist in my instrumental band. Musically it wasn’t anything I would have thought of on my own, but it also was a place where I could really develop as a player and come up with new things for me and play a big part in the writing of the music.
All this is to say, Quebec is a smaller place, Craigslist is even less of what it was then. But if you are in search of something, go look for it.
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As I am working towards extricating myself permanently from NYC and wondering what sort of musical collaborators I will find in Tucson, I really need to keep ^^^that in mind: Find the people who think about music -- and food, and sports, and home-improvement projects, and love, and life -- in engaging and compatible ways first, rather than looking for people who happen to be making music that sounds engaging...because ultimately you're going to want to find people you can stand being in the same room with. The sounds that ultimately come out will be infused with the common ideology regardless of what genre it seems to conform to
...I hope
tucson. dunno if that’ll be a hard sell or not. phoenix has some stuff happening, from what i know.
Tucson’s a university town. When I visited years ago there were lots of weirdos. Also supposedly the birthplace of the chimichanga.
I have family in Tucson but I haven’t been in the city enough to get a sense of what’s there. I do know that my family members are very interested in classical music (one is a retired concert pianist) and they have found events they are interested in. It might be a small pool of active musicians, and I have no idea what the variety is like.
Phoenix isn’t incredibly far away, and I’d imagine there might be a better scene there. Still, it’s probably not a drive you’d want to do regularly to jam.
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new tame reverb, boring!!
no CV, no midi, no thing @ ma jig……pffffff
the momentary stomp is kinda interesting. I had a Dunwich Gravity Well which seems similar to that BSRI one and I sold it because it wasn’t enough of an effect even with the momentary stomp.
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