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Kitchen Sync

By Jim Wood on April 22, 2016 3:41 pm

Inspired by Reich's "Clapping Music," but not using his time shifts. Minimal tech: hand-claps, glass bottles, dust pan, pot lids, crumpled tracing paper, all "played" in real time and assembled in Ableton. Tempo and volume changes are used to delineate phrases.

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I love this kind of "found sound" stuff.  There's music all around us.  Makes for a cool change of pace, too.

Wow, this is great fun to listen to. Sounds big in stereo. I think you discovered a new categorie you can explore. Keep on clapping.....

I totally agree with Q-Rosh. It is absolute fun and interesting to hear. Reminds me very much of the starting stages of Einstürzende Neubauten, just better....I really enjoy when the song appears to slow down a bit and suddenly restarts. Great work!

Really fun, love the sounds and the concept.

This is super cool. Very fun piece, as has been mentioned. Fantastic work!

The Art of Noise smile

A refreshing piece.  I like how the recordings aren't overly processed.  Tastefully minimal in execution.

Refreshingly different and a very good execution of the idea.
And inspiring: it makes me want to do a track with samples from my own kitchen.

Very nice. I got the clap!

cfurrow wrote:

Very nice. I got the clap!

That's not good ::(

Great combinations of sound :-)  Love the tracing paper.

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