Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[dukeorock]

“honey, let’s go to the moog museum” would be a quick way to ask for a divorce.

haha! Honestly, I had no intentions of going to visit the Moog places, assuming the girl would hate it. She insisted we go and was really cool about it. Fine by me!

 

[cosmicevan]

Taking a brief holiday with the girl in Asheville, NC. Went to the Moog factory/store as well as the ‘Moogseum’ downtown. The Moog One is crazy good, but I also was knocked out by the Matriarch. Just a terrific synth
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Oh damn. I too am in NC at the moment. Wonder if I can co vince the wife and kiddies to head over to asheville

 

[steubig]

haha! Honestly, I had no intentions of going to visit the Moog places, assuming the girl would hate it. She insisted we go and was really cool about it. Fine by me!

you win!

(actually, she’s had me do worse; like when we were in paris and i had to go to different cemeteries to visit the graves of debussy, honegger, ravel, etc.)

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

you win!

(actually, she’s had me do worse; like when we were in paris and i had to go to different cemeteries to visit the graves of debussy, honegger, ravel, etc.)

Loves me the classical French impressionists.

Debussy is one of my all time favs with Berlioz.

Off I go to listen to "the symphonie fantastique for the 4858484 time.

 

[steubig]

check out artur honegger. swiss/french. member of les six. wrote some really interesting stuff.

try this:

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

check out artur honegger. swiss/french. member of les six. wrote some really interesting stuff.

try this:

Thank you. I freakn love getting new stuff to listen that I don't know about.
(It happens so rarely, that's what you get for spending most of your lifespan listening to music I guess. So much music....so little time in one day)

Now its Sunday afternoon Lifelover and Death Grips time. Awesome bands, but not for everyone .

Keep em comin!!!

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

check out artur honegger. swiss/french. member of les six. wrote some really interesting stuff.

try this:

Saw a while back you dig Barry Guy amd Evan Parker. You should check out anything by David S Ware ( im sure you know about him already im just making sure)
William Parker is criminally underrated imo.

 

[steubig]

Saw a while back you dig Barry Guy amd Evan Parker. You should check out anything by David S Ware ( im sure you know about him already im just making sure)
William Parker is criminally underrated imo.

ware is someone whose work i don't know enough. i know the name, of course. i haven't gone down the w parker rabbit hole yet.

interesting that you brought up barry guy and evan parker, cause i thought folks here might be interested in the parker electro-acoustic band. post-jazz with a lot of interesting live processing (max/mps, i'm pretty sure) of the acoustic players. and some jaw-dropping playing, imo.



the first two-three ecm recordings are really cool.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

ware is someone whose work i don't know enough. i know the name, of course. i haven't gone down the w parker rabbit hole yet.

interesting that you brought up barry guy and evan parker, cause i thought folks here might be interested in the parker electro-acoustic band. post-jazz with a lot of interesting live processing (max/mps, i'm pretty sure) of the acoustic players. and some jaw-dropping playing, imo.



the first two-three ecm recordings are really cool.

Even weirder I was going to recommend the Beans album "only"

Beans is an emcee beat dude from the hip.hop collective anti pop consortium and he jams with hamid drake and william parker on that. Its awesome.

 

[monsterthompson]

Screwing around with my rig today. I bought the A7X monitors, which I posted earlier. I also picked up a Cioks DC7 power supply at Perfect Circuit, because I’m tired of One Spot cables everywhere on my desk.

I reordered a bunch of stuff and started listening for issues. I can get noise out of my Transmutron if I push the gain super high certain fuzz and dirt pedals. I think the isolated DC7 power helped. I also was able to run my Dunwich DA120 at 18v to see how much that changed the tone.

In that process, I realized what I had been doing “wrong” in my effort to split my signal via the Transmutron into a low/high clean/dirty crossover, and then run the split signals independently through each of the two Empress delay engines. I had selected the wrong mode on the Empress in my previous effort. I fixed that today and the results were awesome.

Now, the clean signal gets fed to one delay type, and the dirt goes to a second delay type. I can link both delays to a standard tap clock, and toy with the repeat subdivisions independently.

So, if I’m clever, I can set a clean signal delay to repeat on quarter notes using a tape delay engine, while the dirty signal repeats on eighth notes through a modulated delay engine. It’s pretty slick.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

ware is someone whose work i don't know enough. i know the name, of course. i haven't gone down the w parker rabbit hole yet.

interesting that you brought up barry guy and evan parker, cause i thought folks here might be interested in the parker electro-acoustic band. post-jazz with a lot of interesting live processing (max/mps, i'm pretty sure) of the acoustic players. and some jaw-dropping playing, imo.



the first two-three ecm recordings are really cool.

Has a Dave Douglas kinda vide. I like it.

 

[steubig]

peter evans is the trumpet player i think. insane player.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

David S Ware documentary

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

peter evans is the trumpet player i think. insane player.

Yep I noticed. Didnt know the dudes name but that is some serious horn playing

 

[steubig]

barry guy is also unreal on that concert. he and evans have a duo record. omg.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

barry guy is also unreal on that concert. he and evans have a duo record. omg.

Link to that album please???

 

[monsterthompson]

Working on non-ambient stuff, today. Somewhere along the way my brain compartmentalized something:
1. Ambient music is for wandering knob turning and sound design.
2. Non-ambient stuff is about producing a song.

I realized my timbre quests were good for some things, but finishing a production is not that thing. I like exploring textures and sound, but I also want to produce a few things for a specific project. For that, I've been repeating three ideas over and over.
1. A cool beat without a completed song is pointless. Stop “perfecting” a section and complete an arrangement.

2. I am not a drummer, and using drum loops is not cheating. If I was jamming with a human drummer, I’d be asking them to create a beat, so there’s no shame in using a loop someone else designed.

3. I’m not a sound designer, and using presets is okay. I’m not going to create some groundbreaking sound, so stop wasting time. Use a preset and tweak it to get close enough for this hobby project.

On that last one, I’m telling myself to save the knob turning for dedicated ambient exploration. Not every walk on the beach is a workout, and I don’t do cardio training so I can set record times on my beach stroll. Different things are allowed to be different things. It also helps to define what “thing” you are actually trying to do.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Working on non-ambient stuff, today. Somewhere along the way my brain compartmentalized something:
1. Ambient music is for wandering knob turning and sound design.
2. Non-ambient stuff is about producing a song.

I realized my timbre quests were good for some things, but finishing a production is not that thing. I like exploring textures and sound, but I also want to produce a few things for a specific project. For that, I've been repeating three ideas over and over.
1. A cool beat without a completed song is pointless. Stop “perfecting” a section and complete an arrangement.

2. I am not a drummer, and using drum loops is not cheating. If I was jamming with a human drummer, I’d be asking them to create a beat, so there’s no shame in using a loop someone else designed.

3. I’m not a sound designer, and using presets is okay. I’m not going to create some groundbreaking sound, so stop wasting time. Use a preset and tweak it to get close enough for this hobby project.

On that last one, I’m telling myself to save the knob turning for dedicated ambient exploration. Not every walk on the beach is a workout, and I don’t do cardio training so I can set record times on my beach stroll. Different things are allowed to be different things. It also helps to define what “thing” you are actually trying to do.

Exactly why I like simple. All the complex midi mapping and synchronization, complex patches, 109r8r748384848 sound libraries are distractions that prevent me from actually getting stuff done.

Plus dont get me started about option paralysis. Chose commit and go forward.



That's just me. I'm dumb dont forget

 

[steubig]

for francophiles. lili boulanger (nadia's sister), who died and wrote this at 25 (!)

 

[steubig]

Link to that album please???

don’t like the alb title, but i really like the music.