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RE: Aarset-BitRMan-Kornstad



Nice!

Two Summers (three?) ago I had the pleasure of seeing Nils-Petter Molvaer 
at
Central Park's Summerstage in NYC. Eivind was an integral part of the band,
playing his thing...the band was groovin' a heavy beat, samples, etc. and
Nils was at his finest.

Well, about a 1/2 hour into the performance, I see the sidestage personnel
making the "cut, cut" gesture to the entire band, like it was time to "wrap
it up" and bring on the next band. The 'next band' was Sex Mob, who are 
from
NYC and can probably play there any given night! My friends and I were like
"what the fuck?!?!?" 
This guy and his band come all the way from Norway to play a handful of
gigs, and they're giving him the axe!!! 

Anyway, while the music lasted we were smiling from ear-to-ear. Amazing
players, those ECM guys!!!!

Ed in NJ

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Peters [mailto:mp@mpeters.de] 
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:06 AM
To: Loopers Delight
Subject: Aarset-BitRMan-Kornstad

I saw Eivind Aarset's group live yesterday ... he continues to amaze and
inspire me like no other guitarist at the moment ... what a wonderful gig!

As usual he used Ableton Live, so did his drummer, effortlessly morphing
from a free improvisation to a groove that suddenly contained prerecorded
sounds and melodies ... for his guitar playing, Aarset used a very wide
range of sounds, from utterly tweaked and distorted to breathtakingly
beautiful. I lo-res-photographed his setup after the show ... on the table
from left to right: a Moogerfooger, a ZVex effect - but which one? -, an
Alesis BitRman, and a Boss Delay. On the floor the Line6 Looper and some
more fuzz boxes ... don't recognize them, anyone?

http://www.veloopity.de/temp/DSC00015.JPG
http://www.veloopity.de/temp/DSC00018.JPG

I wonder if it could have been his Alesis BitRMan that occasionally 
produced
those intentionally completely distorted sounds (which I've also heard from
NiN before I think) - as if some input was cranked up way beyond normal
distortion, so much that the sound gets interrupted ... does anyone know
what I mean and how this is done?

Does any of the guitarists here use the Bitrman with interesting results?
all the online demos are done with techno rhythm machines ...

One nice discovery for me on this evening was saxophone player Håkon
Kornstad (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0tCpG5vPE) who played an 
extensive
solo set before he played with the Aarset trio - he uses playing techniques
that I have never heard before from a saxophone, and he loops with a
repeater. Ever since the days of Terry Riley and Dickie Landry, I love
saxophone loops!


Michael
www.michaelpeters.de