Jim Perkins (Bigo and Twigetti): Chopin Prelude (2010)
Jim Perkins (Bigo and Twigetti): Chopin Prelude (2010)
“The original prelude was one of the first pieces I learnt to play. It sparked hundreds of ideas for potential re-arrangments and just provided a lot of opportunities to experiment. I wanted to be able to fuse all the experience I had of editing digital audio files and mixing, with the sounds of the piano but not by chopping up an existing recording as that is quite limited but by starting with the musical arrangement and the playing of the piece, whilst also keeping in mind the editing and effects I might use later on. This allowed me much more flexibility in producing the piece I wanted. That recording triggered a whole series of events which led me to record endless hours of piano, meet some incredible musicians and studio engineers and ultimately create a whole album of piano and laptop pieces.“
Edgar Curtis – Cloud Horse
Cloud Horse fuses the dramatic music of Ennio Morricone style wild-western soundtracks with various electronic methods. All sounds were created using a beaten up acoustic guitar processed with Max/Msp. The result is a dramatic stuttering wash of jarring chords and granulated steampunk themes straight out of a space western.
curated via Jim Perkins from his twigetticast (itunes podcast)
