Pat Metheny talks about his new album Orchestrion. This is pretty brilliant, the instruments react to his midi control on his guitar making the experience interactive with the mechanized instruments. This kind of interaction and relationship with the otherwise lifeless controlled sounds really changes the concept and possibilities of playing with electronics. Neat stuff, gotta [...]
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Florent Ghys – President Obama The Union
Florent Ghys has a new recording out and has video in promotion of the release. The Union is in a State address by President Obama. Bio from http://www.florentghys.com/ Florent Ghys is a French composer of acoustic music and upright bass player. He employs hair dryers, blinkers, weather reports, vacuum cleaners, numbers, and enjoys controlling random [...]
Hermeto Pascoal: Aura Sound of Yves Montand and Música da Lagoa
An amazing display of imitative improvisation and compositional techniques. Hermeto Pascoal (born June 22, 1936) is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist greatly admired for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation as well as a record producer.I was previously unaware of him until I found this studio recording of him capturing what he calls the Aura [...]
