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variations/silences (passamezzo antico)

By colorful grey on July 6, 2014 10:37 am

Apparently I woke everyone up with this one. Couldn't sleep, got up at 4am, noodled, had both kids and wife show up at various points, asking what I was doing.

What I was doing: Improvising over the good old passamezzo antic, a super-popular chord progression from around the 16th century, while adding some drones from the Reaktor Skrewell.

Silences: The first drone introduces a background noise. It gets incorporated/drowned by the lute, but then stops. This, at least to me, left me with kind of an acoustic afterimage, making the silence "louder" by means of contrast. After one more round of antico, another drone chimes in, replacing the acoustic silence with a synthetic hum. Third silence is of course at the end of the song. Cage would probably ask you what you are hearing around you at that time.

I'm probably overthinking this, but what else is new. Thanks for listening!

Neat -- and just as described! I'll have to check out the passamezzo antic; something to give the folias a breather smile

what an interesting concept. i always like acoustic guitar. nice work.

Man, that was really nice. I struggle with harmony at the best of times though. Really lovely. I heard my heater.

I'll go with the lute part any day. A little bit puzzled on the drone, but I think Cage would approve!

Nice one, mate

Harsh & gentle at the same time. Nice!

the contrast of the drones and acoustic flute makes this a truly interesting piece. Especially the part where the drone stops and the flute is in the focus felt like a relief. Nice stuff!

Very nice combination of old and new, well done!

Jim Wood wrote:

Neat -- and just as described! I'll have to check out the passamezzo antic; something to give the folias a breather smile

Ah, "Stairway to Heaven."  smile

Really cool.  The contrast between the drone and the acoustic part is neat and then when the drone drops out it really does seem to make the silence louder.  And yep, my own ambient room noises really jumped out at me at the end.  Nice job.

Really cool contrast with the drone and lute.  I will definitely be checking out that chord progression smile  Nice job!

Jim Wood wrote:

Neat -- and just as described! I'll have to check out the passamezzo antic; something to give the folias a breather smile

vinpous wrote:

Man, that was really nice. I struggle with harmony at the best of times though. Really lovely. I heard my heater.

Perplex On wrote:

the contrast of the drones and acoustic flute makes this a truly interesting piece. Especially the part where the drone stops and the flute is in the focus felt like a relief. Nice stuff!

CosmicCairns wrote:

Really cool.  The contrast between the drone and the acoustic part is neat and then when the drone drops out it really does seem to make the silence louder.  And yep, my own ambient room noises really jumped out at me at the end.  Nice job.

Thank you guys. It took me a while to get back to listening and reading comments this week - lots of life stuff going on - but it's so nice to see your thoughts. Glad it "worked as advertised!"

Jim Wood wrote:

Neat -- and just as described! I'll have to check out the passamezzo antic; something to give the folias a breather smile

Jim Wood wrote:
Jim Wood wrote:

Neat -- and just as described! I'll have to check out the passamezzo antic; something to give the folias a breather smile

Ah, "Stairway to Heaven."  smile

Tone Matrix wrote:

Really cool contrast with the drone and lute.  I will definitely be checking out that chord progression smile  Nice job!

Thank you! There are actually several of those renaissance standard chord progressions - hopefully I'll get to use/deconstruct several more in the future. I'll keep you posted. It is interesting how popular their influence remains, Led Zeppelin!

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