Shiva's Dilemma
By george bowles on February 28, 2016 10:17 am
creating destruction, destroying creation... what to create, what to destroy? for this track a hearkened back upon a style i began developing over a decade ago which can be heard here: https://eidrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-will-be-as-unrecognizable-as-the-past-soundtrack
It is perhaps a weird form of freejazz that utilizes improvisation, multi-tracking, and feedback loops. I wanted to do something that incorporated field recordings and sounds found around my house, since i was for some reason paying more attention to the little details of sounds going on around me. there is a candle, cityscape, and a water burbling device for the pets that made a very interesting sound. I also recorded a drum improvisation, and added in some guitar with freeze pedal as well with the latch setting on. there is even some tape manipulation, as originally i was thinking about making it like musique concrete.
the feedback loop channel ended up kind of stealing the show, it is an outboard unit i bought used and ran the output into the input and the other stereo output into the computer. when you do this just about every knob turn on the unit will do weird things. feedback loops remind me of Shiva the Indian creator/destroyer god.
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