Daizan and I were talking music making tonight, so I thought I'd play with the idea of the Enso in music composition and performance.
At an obvious surface level, the Enso is a loop, and music is replete with loops - repeating phrases and rhythms, samples, tape loops, etc. It also represents motion / action and creation "at once" - without inhibitions or overthinking.
So here was my concept: Record or sequence a series of musical phrases of differing lengths (3bars+14beats, 6bars+4beats, etc.) using instruments Daizan and I were discussing earlier tonight.
- Kawai K5000S - a very cool digital additive synth
- Moog Mother32 - a very warm analog subtractive synth
- A piano - like the truly analog kind
- A synthesized / sampled electric piano (Rhodes)
Since the loops are not the same length, they will not repeat with the same period, the melodies and themes and rhythms will get out of phase with each other (some of you may recognize this technique from Steve Reich's "Piano Phase" and others).
Anyhow, so I set up all these loops to run on their own, while I could move between them tweaking the synth patches, adding effects (filter, tape delay, reverb, etc.).
As a first time out of the gate for this sort of live loop based performance, I kept things fairly slow moving and ambient (so I could tweak and play without too much pressure). It was fun even if it ain't great art. ^_^
https://soundcloud.com/circumjacence...ce-127-minutes
Gassho,
Sekishi #sat #looped