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Kamelmauz: Limber I Monos Om (mini ep)
This new set follows from the surging iPhone band-in-a-hand moment. It refers to a truly odd collaboration made possible by the strange new world of the iPhone, its so-called apps, and the kinds of sonic exploring the technology makes possible. Originally I was just biding my time, waiting for the iPad, and knowing eventually be plugging it into the studio machinery.
But the iPhone came along and with it–soon enough–came a slew of app-driven opportunities, including the most prime ones of all, courtesy of ambient giants Brian Eno and Steve Roach. I have collaborated with each, and with their colleagues, in these two slow, ambient pieces. Almost anybody who has an iPhone knows what I’m speaking of–Bloom, Trope, Air–in the latter case, and, may well also know of the fine Immersion Station app of Steve Roach and Eric Freeman. (Visual mixing is very cool!)
The odd point is that none of my collaborators know they have served as my collaborators! Yet, it was inevitable I was headed toward plugging iPhone/iPad into my digital rig and into Logic and force such collaborations to bear sonic fruit. Several other apps were used; I didn’t keep notes for the ninety minute exercise cum experiment. And, at the end, I did process the tracks in the convolution reverb studio and did a down-and-dirty (what I term,) mixmaster.
The overarching formula for each piece is: Intro (Eno) / Outro (Eno+Roach.)
As always, full digital, free download are available at Kamelmauz-Soundz Bandcamp for the savvy and well-equipped soundnaut.
Intro i
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Tagged Brian Eno, IOS5 audio, Kamelmauz, Steve Roach
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Band In Your Hand
iTunes app store come-on
The same week I junked my five year old dumb phone for an iPhone 4s, I’m cruising the app store like a fiend, having prematurely reached the foothills of an artistic vision. You see, I’ve had my eye on an iPad but had decided to wait until iteration #3. I figured spring or fall next year. I had my sights on using it as a musical platform, especially in the ‘generative’ that has blossomed based in the touch screen.
Then my Nokia flip punked out. The T-Mobile sales gal couldn’t arouse herself to try to sell be a Android phone, my muse and wife bought an iPhone, and, two weeks later I stuck my head in a Sprint store and got the last iPhone in their stock.
Checked out all sorts of free and cheap apps and soon enough shards of experimental leavings were flying off my enthusiastic whirling around this band in your hand.
The following facetune took about fifteen minutes to conjure, and then about a half hour in iMovie to assemble and render.
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Pentatonic Experiments, using NI Reaktor-Prism
Akai LPD-8
Back on the pentatonic trip: here’s two very down-and-dirty versions of pentatonic riffing that use some patches from Native Instrument’s Reaktor-Prism synthesizer module. (Upgrade to NI Komplete version 7, and Prism is included as one of the numerous new modules.) The pentatonic, characterized as the ‘black keys’ on a piano, is elsewhere on the keyboard too, obviously. I think of it not as a five or six note mode, but as an extended two or three octave scale; in C: C, D, E, G, A, C, D, E, G, A, C
For these short sketches, the Akai pad controller adds in the E and the A. I did run some effects on this unmastered and roughly mixed set of sketches. The versions represent different mixes.
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Aound, versions I & II
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Tagged Akai LPD-8, Native Instruments, pentatonic, Reaktor, Reaktor Prism
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Kamelmauz: 03. Ancient Sanabad – from In Khorasan
03. Ancient Sanabad
From Kamelmauz:In Khorasan (2001) / mp3@160 (more details)
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Kamelmauz: 01. Talon – from In Khorasan
Here’s the first shot of Kamelmauz love from In Khorasan. I’ll post #2 along with the other two sections of The Secret Suite someday soon.
01 Talon
01 Talon
From Kamelmauz:In Khorasan (2001) / mp3@320 (more details)
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Kamelmauz Studio Sketch: Faeon version 1
If you load up the effects channels on a software hard disc recorder, sometimes bad stuff happens. The computer might crash or the effects go dead. In this case, the output was glitchy and seemed worth looking at in an editor but not worth saving.
Except the glitches scattered throughout the drone, including many artifacts left from editing out total drop outs, sounded of a piece with the darn improv. I whacked a few but left many in this rough mix.
This is a crunchy series of drones played on an Indy Rail 6 string lap steel guitar and run through Absynth and some sympathetically nasty distortion and other tricky effects. Okay but it’s a throwaway…crumple, crumple…
FAEON v1 (studio sketch)
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