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 The Music That Just… Happens! 
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Post The Music That Just… Happens!
Sometimes it is such an amazing trip to simply start playing to see what music will be coming through. Here's such a free improvisation on the Chapman Stick extended with the Mobius looper and a cello bow:

http://soundcloud.com/pboy/the-music-that-just-happens

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WOW!!!! That was so cool Per!!!!!! :D

Amazing textures and tones - how do you do it?!!!!

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earthgene wrote:
how do you do it?!!!!
Technically just by playing and looping what I play. Then mucking around remixing the loops I did while still playing. In this recording you don't hear me creating the first five parallel loops, because I was just practicing as usual when I got the idea to record what I was doing. And to make the recording a little more interesting I faded down the five loops to begin with, before pressing the record button. But then it is 6 minutes of playing around on the Grand Stick, switching between 10 effect patches (every new patch giving new sounds for both melody and bass side) while remixing the five loops by pedalboard control.

Musically, it is a bit harder to say "how I did", because I'm not sure we are sharing the same references. Generally I associate in real-time to where I want to take the music and my directions can be both tonal, melody and harmony-based or based on pure timbre (sound design). Not going into music theory analysis I might say that I just play what feels good; not too cheesy but not too "out" either. I try to balance the story-telling and present teasing questions-and-answers while leading the general flow in a not too boring but also not too fragmented fashion. Just normal improvising I guess.

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"I try to balance the story-telling, present teasing questions-and-answers while leading the general flow in a not too boring but also not too fragmented fashion."
Now that's a nice explanation of the verb 'improvising' :-)

Very nice improv, Per :-)


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Great stuff Per!

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The more I hear your stuff the more I like it.
Yours was one of the first Stick videos I found when I first started my journey, and THE first I saw with effects/looping.
This is an amazing amalgam of color and texture expressed through sound. I love the serene "whale song" tones combined with the overdriven leads, over a bed of pulsating rhythms and lines.
Keep up the great work and keep the inspiration coming!
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That was great - I really like what you do.
I'd have liked to get across to London to see you play on Tuesday but I'm working unfortunately.


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