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Re: The Music That Just… Happens!

Per,

That was as lovely a piece of music as I've ver heard from you...and I've 
heard a lot of excellent stuff over the years.

Peace,

Ted


On Sep 29, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

> Sometimes it is such an amazing trip to simply start playing to see
> what music will be coming through. Here's such a free solo
> improvisation on the Chapman Stick extended with the Mobius looper and
> a cello bow:
> http://soundcloud.com/pboy/the-music-that-just-happens
> 
> Fun thing in this session was to make quite long loops and actually
> play the parts with some variation and sense of evolution. Then take
> it to the next level (which is what got recorded) where you use these
> long loops to remix while playing along. Five tracks in total plus
> live input is what's going on. A little too muddy here and there,
> fidelity-wise, but since I haven't found a technical solution for
> recording each looper track on it's own I take it for what it is. A
> mistake was to overplay a bit (on the dist melody part) too early on
> during the improvisation and as you know that is not curable because
> you have to keep up the attitude you start out with :-)  Anyway, I
> enjoyed the noisy sound and the melodic textures that appear as
> different parts come together or diverge.
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.perboysen.com
> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen