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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:08 am Post subject:
What's your favourite drone track? |
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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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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:57 am Post subject:
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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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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:01 am Post subject:
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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 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:
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| 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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heh- I'm wrong again! 
BUT does anyone remember the Gizmo??? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gizmo
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject:
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| the ebow and i share a birthday! |
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| 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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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:
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| v-un-v wrote: | BUT does anyone remember the Gizmo???
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Sure
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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| cbm wrote: |
I love the concept of modernizing and adapting hurdy-gurdy technology to guitars! |
another one for the DIY section then? 
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!!
Amazing! 
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Bach, opening of the Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540
pure goose bumps
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:29 am Post subject:
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| bachus wrote: | Bach, opening of the Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540
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Is THAT a drone?!?!?
Nah mate!
Le Banque Céleste
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Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening
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| v-un-v wrote: | | bachus wrote: | Bach, opening of the Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540
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Is THAT a drone?!?!?
Nah mate!
Le Banque Céleste
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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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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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| Oenyaw wrote: | 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! I especially like the slow-slow chords at end of side one.
/Stefan
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