Collaboration

[Arpangel]

https://larrycanlaugh.bandcamp.com/album/bricolage

A tentative link to an album I’ve been working on with a friend, I’m sure it will be fine to post a link here.
We’ve both got a good feeling about this, the instrumentation, and production.
Make of it what you will.

[amanise]

Wow! That's pretty freaky! Listening to it all now while I get some lunch ready. Great movie music - I imagine it in the background on something like 'The Prisoner' or 'Dance of the Vampires'. Sounds like a lot of fun to make.

[RichardT]

I'll give this a listen - sounds interesting.

I have a piece called Bricolage too - not released yet, though.

I once worked with an accountant who used to say, when the numbers weren't working out, 'Time for some bricolage'. In the spite of that, he was a good accountant and completely hilarious to work with.

[RichardT]

Wonderful, Tony.

It definitely deserves to exist, as Steve Jobs used to say.

Some elements that sound like Schoenberg, Webern, and Weather Report - a great combination.

I've just listened to the first three tracks so far.

[Folderol]

Very well done, but a bit too far out for me really.

[Arpangel]

Wonderful, Tony.

It definitely deserves to exist, as Steve Jobs used to say.

Some elements that sound like Schoenberg, Webern, and Weather Report - a great combination.

I've just listened to the first three tracks so far.

I really can’t say what it sounds like, and I’ve never been able to say that about my own music, that’s all, I can say.
I don’t particularly like Schoenberg, I love Webern, and I feel I should like
Weather Report, but I like the band more than I like the music, Black Market is the one album that actually does anything for me.
My other musical half, influences? I can’t really say, we’ve got similar and very different tastes.

[RichardT]

Well, if it makes you feel better, I thought it sounded most like Webern - the interesting and shifting textures were lovely.

[Arpangel]

Well, if it makes you feel better, I thought it sounded most like Webern - the interesting and shifting textures were lovely.

I agree, but they were purely improvised, not planned, some good serendipity, my collaborator has a few things ahead of me, his technique, and musical knowledge, so he was definitely following me and developing it at the same time, my job I think was to instigate textural/technical changes, live, I think we play off of each other well.

I'll give this a listen - sounds interesting.

I have a piece called Bricolage too - not released yet, though.

I once worked with an accountant who used to say, when the numbers weren't working out, 'Time for some bricolage'. In the spite of that, he was a good accountant and completely hilarious to work with.

Someone needs to have their feet on the ground, be it financially, or musically!

[Drew Stephenson]

Listening now.

[Arpangel]

Listening now.

Ha!
We are going to work on a Marimba and piano album together, that’s the next one, I think.
Less production, more playing.

[Martin Walker]

Wow! That's pretty freaky!

Seconded in hearty fashion!

This is a really intriguing (and sometimes challenging) listen, but with some fascinatingly loose improv elements

[Arpangel]

Wow! That's pretty freaky!

Seconded in hearty fashion!

This is a really intriguing (and sometimes challenging) listen, but with some fascinatingly loose improv elements

Thanks very much Martin, it’s difficult saying anything about our own music, but I honestly have to say this isn’t like anything I can directly compare it with, at the time we were recording this I was "nudged" out of my comfort zone many times, and I was very dubious about the whole thing, but Michael, my collaborator, persisted, and pushed it on, and I’m very grateful he did, not only is it a mixture of our sometimes differing opinions and approaches, it’s also an experiment in production techniques that I was very uncertain about, but as I said, in an as unbiased way I can, I think it works, and I can’t pin it down.
This is very much a combination of Michaels superior planning, musical and technical skills, and my rather ad-hoc "let’s see what happens if we do this" approach!

[awjoe]

I learned a new word and heard a new tune. Life's good.

[Arpangel]

I learned a new word and heard a new tune. Life's good.

Thanks Joe.
What’s bothering me, is that I’m hearing lots of sounds, and for the life of me, I can’t remember how I got them, or what I played them on, that’s the frustrating thing about this type if music, it’s not repeatable, it’s a double edged sword.

[awjoe]

Yes, but well worth the risk, I think - it's got life that mere overdubs don't have. One takes are better.

[RichardT]

I learned a new word and heard a new tune. Life's good.

Thanks Joe.
What’s bothering me, is that I’m hearing lots of sounds, and for the life of me, I can’t remember how I got them, or what I played them on, that’s the frustrating thing about this type if music, it’s not repeatable, it’s a double edged sword.

That’s also a blessing - it means that next time you’ll produce something different.

[Arpangel]

I learned a new word and heard a new tune. Life's good.

Thanks Joe.
What’s bothering me, is that I’m hearing lots of sounds, and for the life of me, I can’t remember how I got them, or what I played them on, that’s the frustrating thing about this type if music, it’s not repeatable, it’s a double edged sword.

That’s also a blessing - it means that next time you’ll produce something different.

Of course, that’s a big plus point, but, there’s another side too, we create "our sounds" that can become trademarks, in certain pieces, I have about 40 DX7 sounds I made, many years ago, and they are definitely "me"
So even though the benefits of originally are there with no memories, sometimes it can be frustrating, but it’s not a big deal, as you say, the benefits are worth it, it’s just another way of working, after all, not the only way.