Begun - Future Nujazz Synthesis with Digital Feedback Loops (Deconstructed and Overlaid Edit)
By george bowles on January 7, 2024 6:09 pm
i had been extremely prolific to end 2023 and running on fumes a little but rather than finishing up a movement from a session that was LAST YEAR i coughed out this bad boy.
this one's a survivor made for weeklybeats, since the first and original version was not captured because i simply forgot to hit record! this piece is very performative and done on the fly because i just wanted to make something new for 2024. some of the original version survives in this piece around 4 minutes when it breaks down from the scary honking sounds.
i ended up chopping off the end and placed it at the beginning, and then i edited and crossfaded the main section into something shorter. it was 12 minutes at first but i got it down to under 7 at 256kbps and if anything it might sound better than expected at 256.
Enjoy! this piece was done on Arturia's Drumbrute which has been a ton of fun to work with. I have this triggering a roland jd-xi's built in roland drumkits, mostly 808 or 707 i think. I re-upped on gear for Xmas and now have that Drumbrute, and I also used the Hydrasynth Explorer! to top it all off i had a friend who has been playing around with feedback loops from all types of gear, so i added a performative feedback loop overdub which ended up tying it all together i hope. this was done with a zoom b1on multifx pedal. I will post a related video and bandcamp in the comments.
creative direction: contemplating living a life where you get to witness technologicaly advancement grow into something like a baby god at this point, or will be close. using the feedback loops always gives me a weird unpredictable experience and it shows how cyclical this all can be. and also contemplating the merger of AI, quantum computing, and nanotechnology in sort of a sci-fi sense gave this track a little bit of an industrial cyberpunk edge with dystopian psychedelic backgrounds.
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I know cause I have one too and I enjoy the endless noodling it affords, but it's also predictable because it has the filter, it has the delay, waveforms, the arp, that all have quite a sound.
