Golden Master

I’ve been working on my live set that I’ll be playing next month on Dec 4th at the “Sugar” bakery in the first hill neighborhood here in seattle.  I’m using the stuff i’ve been blogging on lately: Audiomulch, the Novation Launchpad.  I’m also playing my guitar through some external effects before it goes into my battery of effects in Audiomulch, and then looping the guitar signal in one of Audiomulch’s looper contraptions.

 

My fretless guitar, midi foot controller, a couple pedals.

Anyhow, the idea is to make a live set with nothing much more than guitar looping, and some backing percussion.  I knocked the frets off this guitar a long time ago, and it helps me to think of the instrument more as a big playground of frequencies and sounds, instead of like a normal guitar.  Here’s a couple tracks!  I’m really only about 1/2 way done preparing for this set, in my mind, so my live set should be more refined and hopefully broader sounding than these loops.  But I’m pretty satisfied with the results thus far.

Guitar Improvisation #1 audio

Guitar Improvisation #2 audio