The Transformation of Scotty Irving, Vol. I

[burnett@pobox.com]

As I'd mentioned at the end of May,

http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200605/msg00936.html

I was invited to take a recording of a improvisational percussive 
circuit-bending performance by Clang Quartet, and use it as samples for a 
performance. The recordings of my performance arrived yesterday, and I 
thought I'd share it with you as followup.

The result is here:

http://www.subscapeannex.com/other/transformation_of_scotty_irving_vol_one.mp3

a single 30min track of room-mic-recorded live looping / processing 
soundscape. It's a pretty big file even as an mp3, so I'm afraid if you're 
on dial-up the file size might be too much to deal with.

How I came up with the above:
For my set, I chose to treat the recording as a monolithic block without 
pre-sampling or selecting from it, and brought no pre-selected samples 
from the half-hour recording. Instead, I chose to pretend I was live at 
the 
recorded performance, and play the recording into my loopers and effects 
as if it were a live performance into the effects chain, sampling and 
processing it as I went along.

I used several loopers in the process: an Akai Headrush E1 and Z-Vex 
Lo-Fi Loop Junky at the top of the signal chain to capture unprocessed 
chunks of the recording, and a Boss RC-20, Boss RC-20XL, and Digitech 
Jamman at the end of the chain to capture post-processed chunks.

This was also the only time I've ever used a computer in performance: Mac 
OS X has a wonderful Text-to-Speech read-aloud function built in. I chose 
an appropriate source text, pasted the text into Notepad, select All, 
chose File>Services>Text to Speech>Start Speaking and OS X read the 
text in a voice I picked out from the many different voices I had as 
options.

Hope people like it, or at least were interested in how I came up with it.

best,
Steve B
Subscape Annex    http://www.subscapeannex.com/