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One Minute
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My Newt |
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Out of my comfort zone with 5/4 time and dadgad tuning! Aimed to give the melody a flutey feel... |
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One Minute
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Harmonics
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Ahhhh, Monique! |
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A telecaster, tuned to E F C G B C generated all the harmonics on this track using fingers and a violin bow. Post-processed and arranged using Ableton Live. For more info, see www.looping.me.uk |
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Overture |
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I thought it would be a nice idea to merge the tracks together for an overture - all the artists involved gave me carte blanche, so only have themselves to blame ;) |
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03.08.2010: rick walker (www.youtube.com/looppool) |
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Beautiful work on this whole project, Nick (and everyone). How did I miss that this was happening? I would so have loved to have contributed. I was even thinking that it might be cool to have a space on the website for artists to contribute 'answer' songs that are inspired by these beautiful collective works that the CT-Collective puts out. Youtube has a similar thing.......answer a video with a video......a song with a song.
Anyway, I"ve listened to the whole thing tonight and I'm very inspired, folks....thanks muchly. |
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Reverb
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03.08.2010: Stephen Scott |
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Not just you David, very Michael Hedges. Really nice piece of work Nick, as usual. |
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Quartet
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Fourplay |
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I had a piece half-way complete, but abandoned it and started again. I found an old midi snippet from an exercise in whole tones from many years ago and decided to do the whole piece through midi. I did a crash course in Ableton midi and put the notes and arrangement together fairly rapdily. What took ages was choosing the sound to be used! In the end, I settled on one called "piano for airports"! Don't ask me how the melody and timing came about, I just moved notes around until it sounded right. |
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Generative
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Nature
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Bleaklow |
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I had no preconceived idea of the music, except to create a mood. To befit my current status, this turned out fairly dark. The idea is you're stood as an observer on Bleaklow moor (in Yorkshire), in light rain. The sun emerges, but in the end a storm looms. The guitar element is taken frm a gig I played in the open air, combined with an obscure sample from the 60s, slowed way down. Arranged using Ableton live |
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15.10.2008: raul bonell (www.myspace.com/theplayingorchestra) |
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another winner if not for the experimentalism (uff!),
but for the determination to combine such a wide array of
colours and make it work. creator unmasked, mr. nick!
.. how i love gtr. intro!.
at first listen seemed a string quartet of his own... was it?. |
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Zodiac
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Capricorn |
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Some ostinato guitar phrases in different time signatures, turning into a darker improv section. |
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Acoustic II
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vivacia |
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Legacy LED2oCE acoustic, DI'd direct into Ableton live. I started with a finger-picked chord sequence, then added some "bass", harmonics and e-bow |
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Birds and Men
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Pheasant Plucking |
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Various bird samples combined with excerpts from a live recording made at a solo gig in Norwich. Arranged and mastered using Ableton. Any Floydian influences were purely accidental |
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Birds
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Teisha is now banned
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06.12.2007: Peter Gambles |
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This is the darker side of the internet, really nasty spam. The sort of guy you wouldnt want to meet in a lonely place on a dark night. The weird, almost mechanical, music, full of discord, combined with a sinister voice accentuated by an artificial-sounding reverb makes me really uneasy. I like it. |
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Papermusic
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Canson |
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Various paper samples taken from the Jackson library, plus others recorded direct onto the PC. The samples were arranged and effected using Ableton Live. |
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02.08.2007: Rick Walker (www.looppool.info) |
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This is just exquisitely beautiful to me.
Thanks for making this piece of music.
I just love the paper textures, being a great fan of glitching, slicing, distorting and , otherwise, 'smearing' sound.
Nice work, Nik! |
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20.04.2007: Adam J Wimbush (www.myspace.com/ascsoms) |
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it's amazing how similar but so different these tracks are, you can really hear the artists minds at work here, it's warming to hear the tiny resemblance's and recurring sounds make there way through the entire album, a really really nice union between the artists, you all should be proud, i am to be part of this project
Hats off to you Nick a work i'll cherish for time
ps. this tune is the one i wanted to make, a perfect ending
adam |
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Great Speeches
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Fight'em on the Beaches |
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A speech by Winston Churchill, 1940. I added looped guitar, plus a field recording of skylarks, in a tribute to the "nightingales and bombers" classic. |
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29.11.2007: Peter Gambles |
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Possibly my favourite piece from an excellent collection. The music captures both the sombreness of war and the spirit of hope, and the selection and cutting of the speech, with some repeating of key phrases, makes the whole piece gell. The archetypical English summer sound of skylarks is a masterly final touch. Very moving. |
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