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rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:49 am

noodi wrote::lol: My tune of the day :D

Loved it. The big notes were a bit harsh on my monitors but you said its a rough draught anyway. More!

thanks. :-) yes the recording sucks ... but i think the piece would work well if we ever got around to learning it.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:51 am

sloworm wrote:lol@the voices in the start. oh wait, i thought this was tabla piece. its a voice tabla piece. I like it though either way. Very good use of the voice, must have been tiresome getting it all lined up correctly?

very tiresome it was indeed ... but worth it.

annode · Post by **annode** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:30 am

I dug the counter rhythm parts....very cool.

yes it is performed by me ... but pitch shifted and sped up as needed. alas i could not do the very fast parts so effortlessly (or at all) at my present level of expertise.

Maybe as impressive as the performance...you tell that you sped up some sections that you don't have the skill yet to perform.
This is a selfless statement. It shows honesty and good character. Refreshing to see it. Not enough of it these days of ego wars, "i'm all that" syndrome.
Not to imply i'm clean...

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:32 am

That's a really sassy piece Rick!

Fun and groovin and complex all at once and all from one basic element - very enjoyable listen!

I love stanlea's sound traffic comment as well - really encapsulating. I'm with annode on the counters - lots of fun brain activity when those jumped in.

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:51 pm

Wow! I do this all the time, too. Even before I realized that tabla players communicated their parts this way.

Nowadays I do it trough RM effects.

But the sequencing/harmonization, making it into this particular'structure seems like a rather collosal amount of work.

By the time it develops at the end... wow.

I've only listened once but I suspect I'll be listening and analyzing for a long time.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:58 pm

bols to the wall.

Genetic_Junk · Post by **Genetic_Junk** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:18 pm

As impressive as it is presented here, a live performance would be really cool.

Thanks for sharing.

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:35 pm

Don't even get rick started on live vocal performance.

You're are simply not prepared for the mind-blowing of F'loom cover of the Beatles' "Yesterday/Michelle/Eleanor Rigby"

It's the only extant mp3 download of rachMiel/F'loom that I know of, and it's like 50 mb if I recall correctly, but worth checking out. Oddly, all the other F'loom vocal performances I have are even more impressive.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:35 pm

how far can you go (you said 'I wrote it', which in this kind of thing is actually ambiguous to me) towards improvising in this thing?

Genetic_Junk · Post by **Genetic_Junk** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:49 pm

thanks for that runagate, downloading now.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:13 pm

annode wrote:I dug the counter rhythm parts....very cool.

:-) in the original version there was quite a bit more counterpoint. but the piece is meant for live performance, and the drama of three voices syncing up exactly on the unison parts is too juicy to shortchange.

annode wrote:Maybe as impressive as the performance...you tell that you sped up some sections that you don't have the skill yet to perform. This is a selfless statement. It shows honesty and good character. Refreshing to see it. Not enough of it these days of ego wars, "i'm all that" syndrome. Not to imply i'm clean...

i save my ego dysfunctionality for life. ;-)

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:16 pm

polyslax wrote:That's a really sassy piece Rick!

Fun and groovin and complex all at once and all from one basic element - very enjoyable listen!

I love stanlea's sound traffic comment as well - really encapsulating. I'm with annode on the counters - lots of fun brain activity when those jumped in.

thanks. :-) i don't think the many unisons will hurt the piece in performance, because of the drama of syncing voices that i mentioned in another message.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:18 pm

runagate wrote:Wow! I do this all the time, too. Even before I realized that tabla players communicated their parts this way. :) Nowadays I do it trough RM effects.

But the sequencing/harmonization, making it into this particular'structure seems like a rather collosal amount of work.

By the time it develops at the end... wow.

I've only listened once but I suspect I'll be listening and analyzing for a long time.

if this sounds interesting to you, listen to some good tabla solos analytically. for me, (gridded) rhythm is at its loftiest height in indian music. it's as much science as art, as much math as feeling.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:21 pm

> bols to the wall.

:-) (ouch!) ;-)

> how far can you go (you said 'I wrote it', which in this kind of thing is actually ambiguous to me) towards improvising in this thing.

nary an event is improvised in this; it's all notated, rhythms and syllables. but indian drummers (singers, dancers, etc.) are all consummate improvisers.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:22 pm

Genetic_Junk wrote:As impressive as it is presented here, a live performance would be really cool.

agreed. this is, as mentioned, merely a rough draft. a prototype ...

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