"Warszawa" and "Red"
I was listening in the car to David Bowie’s “Low” today going to the store, and I realized as I was sitting there that there was a phrase in Warszawa that had very similar tone to something else I had heard… and I realized that it was a segment of King Crimson’s song “Red.”
It was striking to me how similar these songs are structurally – with the exception of the opening – It would be an interesting orchestral mashup to adjust the tones and basic keys to be coordinated – or even to play one in the style of the other… i.e. “Red” in the drawn out ambient symphonic vein, and “Warzsawa” in a quicker, louder context.
Regiment / Exposure mashup
The potential here seems huge… once again, using osturntables or another virtual scratchpad, throw back Eno/Byrne’s track “Regiment” about -20% in the tempo category… the beauty of doing this virtual is that you lose no pitch…
Lots of fun interplay is possible between Fripp’s mix of Exposure and Regiment at these settings… roll back and stutter the chant from Regiment… exchange it with the screams in Exposure.
What is this guy playing?
I found this video looking for Sky Saw on google…
Can anyone out there in radio land tell me what synth he is using? I have seen picture of Eno holding a similar one during the Roxy Music era and I am wondering if this is the same one or a related model.
Jim Gomez - Overlay Music Shows
For any who may be interested, our local veteran in Guitar Craft here in Portland has a set of performances he is doing in cooperationg with the ‘Tuning the Air’ project started by Curt Golden up in Seattle.
Jim’s work is ambience driven, built on Guitar Craft fundamentals and should be an interesting show for folks who like generative music, active listening, etc.
Scratching with Fripp
Yes I know this goes against the grain and perhaps it is a bit underhanded, but I was playing with a new toy today that anyone can download: OTS Turntables
After setting your proper realtime buffering settings for your sound card, you basically pull in playlists or single tracks and scratch away on a pair of virtual turntables.
Trying New Things
Recently, Jim, Hank and I had another session where tried another couple of exercises to see where we could go with them. I think they ran the exercises at half speed to make it easy for me to adjust. Basically we ran six permutation of four fingers with the left hand in 7th pos. 1-2-3-4, 1-2-4-3, 1-3-2-4, 1-3-4-2, 1-4-2-3, 1-4-3-2 first on one string and then switching lines every set to give the right hand some exercise as well.
I have noticed that my crosspicking is improving. I also notice that I have been able to do some of the other exercises I wrote much better, although I am rewriting them to include the pinky as I have always neglected it in just about everything I do. I mean for chords I would use it, but I have never really been disciplined in sticking to one place when doing lead or runs so this has been an education in using my ring and pinky fingers to do work.
Guitar Craft Debrief
Well, yesterday I (re)started my exposure to Guitar Craft and I think the introduction was much more solid than my first experience. Certainly not to fault Seattle or the circle by any means… I was certainly out of my element on many levels during that frist trip.
I actually found a journal entry that I jotted down while thinking in the car about what I had experienced. Keep in the mind the context of that trip: