| Author | Message | ||
| hb3
Advanced Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 326 Registered: 2-2005 |
So it's short notice...it's our first show evah!!!! And as such, will probably be an amusing technological catastrophe. Still, all Alembicians are welcome. 8901 Sunset Blvd. April 7 11 PM www.myspace.com/fromthelaboratory www.hb3.com | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 6433 Registered: 5-2002 |
I was thinking that on your mp3's, you played all the parts. | ||
| hb3
Advanced Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 327 Registered: 2-2005 |
That's true. However, I've put together a fine band, including a very nice Austrian cross-dresser on drums. Learning the logistics of how we were going to play the recordings was an ordeal in itself. | ||
| hb3
Advanced Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 328 Registered: 2-2005 |
The guitarist works for Gentle Giant studios, which does figurines for the Star Wars films, etc. He's working on a video for the song "Rom, Spaceknight" -- here's a still of me on the edge of the robot....  (Message edited by hb3 on April 06, 2008) | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 6436 Registered: 5-2002 |
So what is the instrumentation? Some of those songs have lots of parts. | ||
| hb3
Advanced Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 329 Registered: 2-2005 |
It's a four-piece -- me singing and playing piccolo and regular bass, as well as playing trumpet on some stuff a drummer playing an electronic kit with a different drum sound for most of the tracks, so we can replicate the various drum sounds on the recordings -- some acoustic sounding, some electronic sounding, some a combination in between. He's very good at sounding like a drum machine when he needs to. a guitarist translating some of my piccolo bass rhythm parts -- we gave up on him playing the parts on baritone guitar, as this created a wall of mud combined with the piccolo bass. The higher register of the guitar helps even out the sound. a keyboardist playing bass lines, triggering arpeggios, sound effects, and various other stuff as necessary, including orchestral parts....I have as a goal doing full orchestral pieces eventually -- we've experimented with this in rehearsal and it might, I say might, work live. I have a good software orchestra. For example, I learned a John Barry piece, "007," and translated the orchestration into midi, and it sounded decent. I uploaded that file into the snocap music store on the myspace page -- by double clicking it you can hear 30 seconds of it. we also cheat and use a sequence on some stuff -- for instance, when there's two simultaneous drum parts, and it just wouldn't sound right otherwise. However, the ambition for the orchestral material is not to use a sequence at all, but do it entirely and completely live. Oy! |
