I’ve always had hopes and dreams for this website. But…
Things seem to get in the way. I keep several computer journals (daily life, music, ideas, computer/technical stuff, psychology) most of which would fit into a blog concept. The main issues is whether it matters to anyone else but me. Still not sure, but decided to post something, my every other year pilgrimage to this site.
I keep thinking I’ll use this website for something. So I’m just checking to see if it’s still functioning (and whether I’m still functioning).
All these sales. Sales on top of sales. Just too good to pass up right?
Just the hungry ghost. You just need one more reverb, the best reverb. You need to pick up tools in case you might use them.
Yet I decided to compare something I almost bought to something that I already had. I realized the thing that I already had did a better job for what I was looking for than the thing that I almost bought.
Use what you have.
When working with started projects, just open them up and listen.
Don’t immediately start playing, editing, arranging.
Just listen as a separate step
I haven’t been doing much with johnkoranek.com and I have been thinking about migrating johnkoranekcounseling.com to WordPress. So this site is going to be used for some development and will be back later.
-John
One of my current music projects is a Steve Reich inspired phase music piece.
Several years ago I heard a Steve Reich piece performed by Black Earth Percussion Group. Two mallet players (marimba and xylophone, if I remember) repeat the same melody, yet each player was at a slightly different tempo. I had no idea what was going on at first. I was mesmerized how the piece shifted each moment and how complex it was, given how simple the repeated melody was.
I created a piano track, recorded a simple melody, and then duplicated the track, panning them each slightly off center.
I came up with the idea of simply adding a 5/64th note rest to the end of the clip in the second track, making one of the clips 4 bars + 5/64th beats long, while the other clip remained 4 bars long. Every 4 bars the two clips go out of phase by another 5/64th note. The 5/64th note difference is arbitrary. I just tried a few rests and settled on this. The size of the rest determines how long the piece last before it lines up again back in phase.
If I followed the idea completely, I’d record this whole sequence until they came back into phase. During this sequence there are passages that are very interesting and passages that are more dissonant or arhythmic. I’ve currently cut the piece up saving the more interesting parts.
I started this using a piano alone. I’ve currently added a marimba and am working out what sequences each should play against each other in the composition. I’ve also added one of Simon Stockhausen‘s violin patches for Alchemy to play sustained tones.
You have to start somewhere.