MODULAR ACROSS AMERICA! Ep 07: Louisville, KY
Louisville, KY has always been one of my favorite music scenes. From Slint to Rodan ... Rachel's to Young Widows ... to a million other highly creative, frequently sombre sounding bands, something about the intersection of the rural Kentucky pace, an upscale downtown revitalization and a thriving restaurant and art scene has always created what felt like a blue-collar-yet-well-informed, hardworking-to-a-fault musical climate. Our show was smashed to pieces last night at Zanzibar (one of my absolute favorite venues, nationwide) and an appreciable amount of celebration came in tow. As such, it was no small task to pop out of bed at eight AM and compose a piece befitting the gorgeous farm we ended up staying on, but the gentle rain and warm harmonics guided me in the correct direction.
Speaking of which, during the patch I actually have the internal mic on my laptop open and feeding rainy ambience into the mix hitting the Mutable Instruments Clouds. I've tried this trick before, but never in a live context and I was incredibly pleased with how it localized the patch. I relieved the Mangrove oscillator of its traditional bass duties and let it play the right sound counterpoint melody to Plaits left side plucks. Mangrove with the formant pinched can sound downright plucky in its own right, and the two melodies seemed to weave in and out of each other as soon as I got the timbre correct. Little traces of random modulation also fluter around the patch, courtesy of the wonderfully strange Make Noise Wogglebug, a module I have come to rely on for animation in such a small case.
Enjoy the rain aesthetics, friends.
My video is at DLive
More Modular Across America Episodes:
Ep 06: Minneapolis
Ep 05: Cincinnati
Ep 04: Buffalo
Great performance and you captured the rain ambience in it!
This is god damn amazing and I'm so glad we bid on the same bot or I never would have seen this. Fuck yeah!
WELL DAMN. Awesome. Thanks for stopping by and prepare for incoming reciprocation.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane for me. I used to fux with the mod synths. Your idea is cooler though.
Wow! beautiful performance, love the ambient vibes... and the modular vibes as well. Honestly i think the nature really amplified the entire video too, great work! Id be curious what you thought of my side project actually... its called Cloudz... all ambient stuff, compared to my more electronic dance music main stuff...
https://merkabamusic1.bandcamp.com/album/light-spirit-body
Thank you for the kind words and a rad track you have there. Really digging the tones. You should definitely consider putting this stuff up on the dsound chain, as there are definitely people interested in ambient music around those parts.
could u tell me more about that? ive been seeing a little here and there about it
The track is beautiful but the ambient rain and nature sounds add so much to the atmosphere, it makes it feel very immersive!
Nice one @drumoperator. I really have been enjoying following your stuff. Keep it up bro.
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Wow, sounding great. Almost reminded me of Steve Reich stuff for a minute
hello @D live frequently sombre sounding bands, something about the intersection of the rural Kentucky pace, an upscale downtown revitalization and a thriving restaurant and art scene has always created what felt like a blue-collar-yet-well-informed, hardworking-to-a-fault musical climate.thank you for sharing.