Personally, I’m deeply drawn to minimalism and space in the music I listen to. But when I sit down at my battle station, most of what comes out is a wall of 80’s poly synth sounds. Here’s an eloquent two-minute perspective on minimalism from Caterina Barbieri, from a Loop event hosted by Ableton.
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Take All Of Me – Rough Akai Force Demo
Stumbled upon this vid in the ol’ photostream, and I like it. Should go back and rename the project file “Take All Of Me – U SHOULD POLISH THIS ONE NO FOR REAL” It’s a low key off-kilter jam, in the Mixolydian scale. I was practicing recording and looping while unquantized. Built on Akai Force.… Continue reading Take All Of Me – Rough Akai Force Demo
Bob Ross Beats – the story of a jam session
I finally forked over some hard-earned cash and treated myself to the Novation SL MKIII, an incredible MIDI controller and sequencer. My studio now has two ‘sequencer brains’, the Model:Samples still reigns supreme in sequencer depth and complexity, but the SL MK3 fills in a lot of the remaining void, such as polyphonic sequencing. This… Continue reading Bob Ross Beats – the story of a jam session