I too am intrigued by this. I currently use a pitch
shifting/mangling sampler/delay/looper thing I built in
bidule, although the results are considerably more
anarchic than Thomas!
I also have a Bela/BeagleBone thing, on which I intend
to run PD, though I'm making slow progress getting my
head round PD so far! :(
Any help in the form of patches that parallel what I'm
doing in bidule would be very welcome!
Dave Draper
On
07/12/2016 09:31, Matthias Grob wrote:
its actually not MAX but PD and yes I have
them... where should I put them up?
On
161206 17:25, Art Simon wrote:
Matthias do you know if the MAX
patches that Thomas used are available?
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at
12:10 PM, Art Simon <simart@gmail.com>
wrote:
Thank you Matthias for
documenting his legacy. I'm very much
enjoying Guiteros.
Thomas Diethelm is a Swiss nylon
guitar virtuoso that made some
success in Europe mid 80ies using
a unique kind of LiveLooping: https://thomasdiethelm.bandcamp.com
He was rather of the individual
kind, had his own strong style
(literaly, he was a champion in
spear throwing, before dedicating
to the guitar!), a virtuoso as
long as playing his own
compositions and using his AMS DMX
15-80S digital delay and pitch
shifter.
He wanted to live on his music and
tried to be popular. He used to
say that he needs to create
'liedli', little songs - as
opposed to the instrumental
compositions he would naturally
create. Its a pity he neither made
the big success he would deserve
for his ability nor do we have the
music that really came to him...
but its still very amazing and
unique what he left us!
His main technique was to set up a
pattern of delayed pitch
transpositions.
So each note he played turned into
a short melody of 2 to 6 notes.
For each
song, he used specific patterns
and composed using the delayed
transposed
notes.
This may sounds trivial, but once
you listen to his records (about 6
of
them, “Valeys in my Head" I would
recommend most) you get impressed
how far
he went with this technique.
From this album on he also used a
Paradis Hexaphonic guitar with
Polydistortion effect he faded in
to set accents.
Often he quickly alternated
between chords and melody playing
and due to the
delay both were constantely
present and due to the
pitch shift, there was no
impression of repetition. The
limitation of this
technique made him creative in
terms of composition and gave his
own sound.
Two of the records he made in team
with one of the best Swiss
keyboarders
Santino Famulari, the others
feature an always changing good
band. only the last album is
almost solo I heard him often play
solo when we worked and always
found it sounded much more
impressive than with the band.
He complained a lot about the
failing (bad contacts) expensive
and sensible AMS studio
machine. since he completely
depended on it, this might even
have contributed to the end
of his career around 1990.
For 10 years he was happy to sells
dried spiced fish (he was a
brilliant cook, too!).
around 2005 someone created a
special MAX software on a WinXP
Laptop and he tried a comback with
the last recording Guiteros.
then he lost his workshop and
living place and had to sell his
instruments and lost the reason to
live and died in 2013 rather
miserable.
