Live At Blank Space
Saint Louis, MO
March 9th, 2013
Eric: Here is my complete set from tonight, all 11 minutes of it (we were very cramped for time at a double-booked venue). It was my first attempt at only using a QuNeo controller and Ableton. It was not a success. Sorry, both of you who were't out smoking at the time.
Kevin: What were your criteria for a success? I think it sounds good.
Eric: Something I don't wince at to hear back. I'm not hard on myself; I usually like a lot of what I uncover during sets like these, but this one hurts my feelings.
Kevin: I'd like to push this line of inquiry sometime if you'd be willing to discuss more.
Eric: The rhythm was actually interesting enough (kick in 16, snare in 13, hats in 19), but it's all washed out by being locked together by echo, too overdriven, and not varying enough the way I'd planned during this evening's rehearsal. Plus, the accordion was designed to modulate each of the three notes of the chord according to the absence of amplitude of each other, but I had the velocity set on full or something, because its just one long broken car horn drone with no dynamic. The idea was strong, but the result was just a smear of hiss and flat buzz. The recording of room sound that opens and closes it was me watching pigeons on my windowsill; not the birds making noise at all, but just a recording of me watching them. It was supposed to be a spacious, atmospheric piece. Instead, it's a compressed rattle. Blues Control and Ou Oú were great, though!
Kevin: Right. Well I really wish I would've been down there to hear it. There is definitely less breathing room in this than I'm used to hearing from you recently, but I kinda just figured you were reacting to that space. It is a shotgun concrete/stone basement after all. I'm looking forward to the dynamics (lack of?) when we play there to really fill the room and make it throb, but i'm gonna shoot for bombast and not delicacy.
Eric Hall is a composer, improviser, producer, and performer of electronic-based music and video, as well as an installation
artist, DJ, and freelance music and arts educator.
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