Thanks all to everyone who came to see us play last night! I had a great time playing solo and with Unrecognizable Now. And Clue to Kalo were awesome – I loved their harmonies and their songs.
Warts and all, here is my live set from last night for this month’s track of the month. I feel it’s a big improvement over my previous live sets – I have been working to vary my textures and playing much more, and I think my bowing has improved a lot.
[audio:ooray-5-21-08.mp3]
Download (23 Mb, about 23 minutes)
As always, this set is pretty much completely improvised on the fly. No prerendered loops, no nothing. Just me and my looper. Part of the challenge is organizing the material in an interesting way so the set has an overall shape. Here is a list of concepts that I came up with before I performed (sort of my own mini oblique strategies):
*Slow development
*Joy when possible (but earned)
*Detuning = confusion & ecstasy
*Darkness and Noise
*Channel Emotions and frustrations out
*Subvert Expectations
*Trust yourself to let go
*Tension & Release
*Contrasts
*Beautiful -> noisy -> chaotic -> relief
If you’d like to link to this set, please link to this post and not directly to the mp3. Thanks!
Excellent! Downloading right now.
hecanjog
22 May 08 at 4:20 pm
[...] From David Darling to Hank Roberts to Zoe Keating, the cello has suggested itself as a focus of electronic manipulation, no doubt due to its rich, deep sonorousness. Laderas uses electronics not simply to enhance the cello’s sound, but to obscure it. (He has christened this technique he’s developed as the Oo-ray.) If you dive midway into the May 21 performance, recorded at the space Holocene, you may take it to be one of those multi-guitar Glenn Brance symphonies. There is a searing noise, as if the bow’s edge were serrated. It’s hard to tell when the texture of that bow ends and the saw waves of whatever electronic processing is involved kick in (MP3). The performance is not just about generating cacophony, though; it veers from layered plucking of strings to orchestral might, from sour melodic activity to gently bowed divination. In a post on his 15people.net site, Laderas describes his mode succinctly: “As always, this set is pretty much completely improvised on the fly. No prerendered loops, no nothing. Just me and my looper.” [...]
Disquiet » Live Cello-Tronic MP3
28 May 08 at 5:30 am
[...] If you’ve come to my blog via today’s post in Disquiet, welcome! There’s plenty of cello-riffic content for you to peruse, including the following: Live Set 5-21-08, Cello demo tracks, Holiday Drone. [...]
15 People » Blog Archive » Welcome, Disquieters!
28 May 08 at 7:18 am