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Tuesday, 12 August 2008

The barefoot cobbler ::

On top of the 28:52 of piano improvs recorded before the roof installation last week, I also discovered over an hour of solo synth improvs recorded at a friend’s studio in February 2006. I can’t believe I never listened to it; I hear several pieces just sitting there waiting to be developed.

That sent me scurrying for the tracks I think I recorded on a repeat visit. Either I didn’t really record anything, or in a moment of stupidity, deleted the tracks off the laptop, thinking incorrectly that they were on the desktop. One has to be careful with giant audio files; there’s a constant temptation to delete them and reclaim the space.

Anyhow, the first step to developing an improv is to play along with it and see what happens. For anything more rhythmic than atmospheric, it’s best to work in the MIDI domain where time can easily be bent to build a solid foundation. None of my MIDI cables have been connected since last May.

I started digging in the closet for MIDI cables. I found my giant backup stash, but none of the favorites (the best are “full duplex” pairs). Finally I found them tidily coiled up in the back of the rack. Similarly, I found the backup sustain pedal but #1 is MIA. It’s probably in the keyboard case...

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