Re: The Music That Just… Happens!
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.