RE: Sparce 'n Spacey, part 2: fretless guitar

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

Beautiful and soulful. Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 12:04 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Sparce 'n Spacey, part 2: fretless guitar
> 
> Just recorded this impro with my fretless electric + sustaniac:
> http://www.looproom.com/audio/Coastline.mp3
> 
> Flintstone pick and ultra thick plain jazz strings makes for the soft
> but thick attack. Looping in Mobius VST under Bidule... as usual ;-)
> 
> Instead of playing things that I loop I tried to do it the other way;
> playing long notes and loop short slices so the "backing sections"
> kind of builds up in the loop while the lead is almost textural.
> Can't do that on wind instrument because my lungs are too small and I
> have not yet learned circular breathing well enough. And with the
> sustianiac there's also an inspiring element of random - you can
> never be completely sure to really get the sustain you reach for when
> playing a note... and sometimes it just screams through the wood of
> the instrument even when you are not playing.
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
>