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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:08 am    Post subject: What's your favourite drone track? Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I've just been listening to "The heavenly music corporation" from The Essential Fripp & Eno. A lot of drone tracks break up the monotony by featuring strong percussive elements, which is great, but this one has none. It's simply layers of oscillators and an e-bow guitar. I really haven't appreciated it before now.
Anyone got any other drone track suggestions? I'd like to check out some more.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I LOVE "Music for Bowed Piano" by Stephen Scott

It's absolutely lovely and beautiful!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Scott

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

btw Andrew, Fripp was doing this before the e-bow was created!

It's the way he controls the sustain of his guitar in front of a cab. I know this, as I've seen him do it live. Later he used the Roland GR-300 for a similar type effect (same guitar synth used by Pat Metheny incidentally)

edit; and there are no oscillators- apart from what Eno introduces by means of processing via the vcs3. THMC is simply layers of sustained guitar notes. Yes it's very cool Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

http://electro-music.com/forum/post-140016.html#140016

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

v-un-v wrote:
btw Andrew, Fripp was doing this before the e-bow was created!


While I agree Fripp is using controlled feedback for probably everything people think is EBow, I would also like to point out that the EBow was invented about the same time as a lot of Fripps ultra-sustainy work.

The EBow history page says that the first working prototype was in 1969.

The EBow patent was filed December 2, 1976, and was a CIP of an original filing in July 14, 1975.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

heh- I'm wrong again! Wink

BUT does anyone remember the Gizmo??? Shocked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gizmo

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

the ebow and i share a birthday!
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

v-un-v wrote:
does anyone remember the Gizmo???


Not only do I remember it, I still have the Godley-Creme album that featured it in storage.

I love the concept of modernizing and adapting hurdy-gurdy technology to guitars!
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

v-un-v wrote:
BUT does anyone remember the Gizmo??? Shocked


Sure Very Happy

Hey. this reminds me ... I read about it last week in the TV/radio guide ... ah, yes, got it. To start at 0.02 my local time (so in about half an hour from now) a one hour program about Godley and Creme : radio 6 .

Now playing R.O.T. , Christa Pfangen and Little Howlin' Wolf. R.O.T. sounds great (dutch spoken comments of course).

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

cbm wrote:

I love the concept of modernizing and adapting hurdy-gurdy technology to guitars!


another one for the DIY section then? Shocked Laughing

I remember seeing the Gizmo on TV years back- late 70's? I can't remember- but the thing that immediately got me was how it got just the guitar on its own to sound just like a string quartet!! Shocked

Amazing! Cool

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Bach, opening of the Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540

pure goose bumps

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

bachus wrote:
Bach, opening of the Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540


Shocked Is THAT a drone?!?!? Shocked Laughing

Nah mate!

Le Banque Céleste

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La Nativité du Seigneur

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

v-un-v wrote:
bachus wrote:
Bach, opening of the Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540


Shocked Is THAT a drone?!?!? Shocked Laughing

Nah mate!

Le Banque Céleste

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La Nativité du Seigneur

by Olivier Messiaen

Cool Cool Cool Laughing


I would never discount Messiaen, but truth is Bach's pedal point there raises the hairs on the back of my neck and when it ends in the pedal solo i turn to jelly (guava usually).

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I guess it was about 15 years ago. I had two abcesseed teeth at once, side by side. Went through hell. I was on so many pain killers that a friend of mine at the bowling alley nicknammed me "The Percidan Kid."

So.... It was at this time I got Tangerine Dream "Zeit". The entire 2-disc set has some great drones. The first piece is entitled "The Origin of Subernatural Probablities" with Florian Frick and Popul Vuh guest. What a session! Up there with Led Zep (ZOSO) and Tull (Aqualung) being recorded at the same time in the same studio.

Since I'm a guitar player, I'm partial to "The Heavenly Music Corporation".
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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I guess it was about 15 years ago. I had two abcesseed teeth at once, side by side. Went through hell. I was on so many pain killers that a friend of mine at the bowling alley nicknammed me "The Percidan Kid."

So.... It was at this time I got Tangerine Dream "Zeit". The entire 2-disc set has some great drones. The first piece is entitled "The Origin of Subernatural Probablities" with Florian Frick and Popul Vuh guest. What a session! Up there with Led Zep (ZOSO) and Tull (Aqualung) being recorded at the same time in the same studio.

Since I'm a guitar player, I'm partial to "The Heavenly Music Corporation".


I also thought about Zeit while reading this topic! Very Happy I especially like the slow-slow chords at end of side one.

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