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After a long time of not performing solo (close to three years), I'm playing three gigs this month. I didn't mean for it to happen this way, but it's testament to the fact that there are three awesome monthlies for experimental music in Portland right now.
I'll be debuting my new solo project, The Oo-Ray, which is improvised live cello looping mixed with distortion, to produce fuzzy walls of sound. How does it sound? I've put up some samples up on my own blarg for your enjoyment/perusal: link
Here's the dates:
Thurs July 12 - Fiasco @ ground kontrol (special shoegaze night!) - 511 NW Couch
Friday July 20 - Aleatoric @ Apotheke - 1314 NW Glisan St # 2A
Weds July 25 - WTF? @ Fez Ballroom - 318 SW 11th Ave
In other cello news, I've been learning the Prelude to the first Bach Suite...it's really intimidating, but it's been a dream of mine to play it for nine years. So I'm amazed and grateful that I'm working on it.
Also, I am just starting to learn Thumb position, which is really hard. Basically past fifth position, you rest your thumb on the string and it acts like a capo, which lets you play scales and notes far above the normal range. It's very hard for me right now, but I'm sure with more work, it's gonna not sound like a schreeching cat.  | |
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07/12/07
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Roshi
I laffed at yr gaffe
07/13/07
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Roshi
Last night was really fun! And a learning experience.
My current setup consists of my cello, which has a stringvision pickup run through a preamp/DI (sansamp), plus effects, and into the laptop, where the sound is further processed by some custom racks in Ableton.
The speaker set up at Ground Kontrol presented some unique challenges. Even though the speakers are in front of the stage (and suspended high in the air), lots hard surfaces reflected sound back at me, which produced lots of feedback. Thanks to the efforts of David Chandler and the helpful soundguys at Ground Kontrol, we managed to ping the frequencies that fed back. Turns out they were at 200, 400, and 800 Hz for the room. By adding parametric eqs to notch out this frequencies, we managed to tame most of the problem. I also applied a pitchshifter (mda detune) to my output, shifting the output by about 10 cents, which seemed to help.
Even with all of this, David had to ride my faders everytime feedback occurred. He suggested that I assign a midi pedal to output volume so I could throw the volume back quickly when I had this problem.
Despite all of these issues, playing was a blast! I mostly played slow, meditative stuff, but kicked in the distortion when it was necessary.
I didn’t record the night, as I was considering this a dry run for the two shows to come, but hopefully I will record aleatoric on either video or audio.
Thanks to everyone who came out!
07/13/07
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mlbot
and i got the high score on Ms Pacman, so it was an all-around success.
07/13/07
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Roshi
In other news, I still suck at Robotron.
And Tempest.
07/13/07
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mlbot
robotron is fawkin' hard. Using two hands independently??? I DONT THINK SO
07/16/07
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cubestar
Dammit I missed it!
Roshi, have you considered an electric to solve FB issues?
(Expen$ive though)
07/16/07
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Roshi
There's more gigs, cubestar.
Electrics...I've been looking at the Yamaha Silent Cello for a while...I'd like something portable anyway, but fook, it's $1400.  I don't even own my acoustic, so buying a decent acoustic should probably come first.
hi5funeral sold me a feedback destroyer yesterday...after you train it on the resonant frequencies of the room, it seems to work pretty well, but we'll have to see how it works at apotheke. I'm a bit worried about apotheke cause the speakers point directly at you, so it may limit the overall volume I can perform at. We'll see. I might have to set up at a right angle to the speakers.
08/29/07
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doddolfur
Haha. That fifth position is the killer. I used to tell my old cello teacher that it made my thumb sore and red like an apple. He just smiled and said: "I know, it's horrible...the first three months"
Your music sounds nice, do you use your cello live? if so how?
P.S. Congratulation with bach...what else have you been playing?
08/29/07
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Roshi
I've been playing a Tarantella by Squire...the reason for my learning thumb position...I've also played some pergolesi and some fiddle tunes (transposed for cello) lately...
Other than that, lots of long bowing and scales...usual drills
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