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Improvisation for Piano and Escalators

By Chris Dotson on June 29, 2014 9:11 pm

This is a noisey little thing based on an improv session with me and my new patchblocks. I ran a single piano loop through a series of patches (cut-up granular thing, delays, filters) and then layered the pieces in Ableton. There's a little filtering and minor processing in Ableton but it's mostly all sounds generated with the patchblocks.


I've been pretty distracted with the blocks these days so my tracks might start turning into proof-of-concept things while I write new patches and test them out. Apologies to your ears.

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June 30, 2014 1:29 am

Jim Wood

It's like pianos emerging from thick clouds of smoke -- great!

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June 30, 2014 2:18 am

fc

This is really nice. I'm sorely tempted to get these blocks, they seem like a great deal of fun. Especially for live stuff.

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June 30, 2014 9:06 pm

7506

very cool. I hadn't heard about patchblocks before, I need to check them out now!

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July 2, 2014 7:37 am

katarrhakt

nice glitchy manipulating! like it.

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July 3, 2014 5:50 am

Chris Dotson

Jim Wood wrote:
vinpous wrote:
7506 wrote:
katarrhakt wrote:

Thanks everybody! This track was more conceptual than anything else, but these patchblocks are proving to be way more fun and inspiring than even I expected. Glad to see that they're providing an interesting sound for others as well. :-)

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