Re: Golden Ratio, anyone?

["miles ward" <miles932@gmail.com>]

Funny, I met several of the members of the Seattle Symphony who participated in the recording sessions for the source material in the work.  BT composed for and directed the 110 piece orchestra, and definitely had the treatments in mind during the composition, his near neurotic methodical approach boggles the mind.  Interested: are you listening to the 
5.1 mix? it's much more bettah!  The thing that freaks me out about the stuttered rhythms is that they're not fabricated, not milisecond delay based.  They're all note values..  There's rain in the third piece, each drop of rain was isolated, and time corrected to 256th notes, I watched him do a few on a projector.  It's mind numbing detail, but for whatever reason it gets his rocks off, and that means it loops perfectly...  so the twittery noises, they're all "real" notes, which is just nuts to me ;)

What things have you listened to lately that totally were your piece of cake? I'd love to hear!

-Miles

On Jan 7, 2008 11:43 PM, Per Boysen < perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

> > From: miles ward [mailto: miles932@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 6:46 AM
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: Re: Golden Ratio, anyone?
> >
> >
> > Have you heard BT's song 1.618 from his album This Binary Universe?  It'll
> melt your face!
> >

> > That whole album is an amazing work, i'd love to know what other loopers
> think!
> >
> > -Miles

I've had that album since its release. I find it interesting listening
even though I don't like the overall sound  of his treatments. These
stuttering effects and computer based distortion just sound bad to me
- like in "too computer squashed and then partly rescued by EQ but
still not correctly mended". Another thing that makes it a bit hard to
digest is that it is so obvious that the source audio (the performing
symphony orchestra) wasn't created for this later treatments. In
essence it turns out as just another "case of sampling" as when
someone grabs something and throws it into an effect treatment. Maybe
BT's point with making that album was to put modern cut-up techniques
on the line? I don't know. The lacking part is in the composition, I
guess. But I still find it interesting listening - not just my piece
of cake for today.

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---Miles Ward