On a related note, I play percussion with a chamber orchestra called
Alarm Will Sound (www.alarmwillsound.com) and we're releasing a record
next month of Aphex Twin arrangements done entirely on acoustic
instruments. There's all sorts of extended techniques at work here, in
an attempt to get as close as possible to the original textures of the
tracks while keeping the whole thing in the acoustic domain.
A little more info is available here:
http://www.cantaloupemusic.com/upcoming.html#aphex
Admittedly I'm biased, since I'm so close to this project. But I think
it IS possible to merge the acoustic and electronic worlds in this way
and not end up with something totally ridiculous. But there are all
sorts of pitfalls along the way. The precision of machine quantization
is really important to electronic music - players can never play that
way, nor would you want them to. So finding a way of creating the
energy of precision without the actual precision is a really tough task.
My $.02,
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matt kane's brain wrote:
At 09:50 AM 6/21/2005, Stoddard, Kamal wrote:
To bw honest, jeffs stuf isn't really too far off from hearing an
orchestra go into one of those totally staccatto songs where the
sounds start to bounce and stuff. I could se it, but then again it
would probably just sound like an orchestra covering mills. So? Only
intellectually exciting due to the novelty of the concept. I couldn't
see myself reeling from the impact though. That said, you'd be
surprised to hear some of the sounds that classical musicians can come
up with given the freedom, and if they really let the musicians play
their intruments in non-standard ways to achieve some really techno
sounds (sliding a bow lengthwise down a cello, really fast)....then we
might have a very techno moment my friends.
My high school band director was fond of playing pieces like this. He
even commissioned a few. We had to do the following:
-talk, sing, and breathe through my instrument
-Use brake drums, chairs, and sections of railroad for percussion
-Disassemble instruments while continuing to play them
-walk through the audience (lights off) pointing flashlights at people,
yelling "VOODOO"
-take chimes (the long metal tubular ones) by hand, smack them with a
mallet, then lower them into a bucket of water to lower the pitch
-toss rubber chickens around
-play a gong with a bow
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