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Stephan Kunze's avatar

Super interesting. I was wondering if this technique in any way relates to Pauline Oliveros' practice of Deep Listening?

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Dom Aversano's avatar

Thanks, Stephen! Not directly. Although I love that term and practice, and I think to enjoy the music, it requires something more of her way of listening. I think the strong influence on me was Robert Macfarlane's writing and how he brought deep time into everyday living.

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Celtic Boy Underwater's avatar

I wonder if non-musician Brian Eno ever experimented with deep phasing. I downloaded his tech app Bloom.

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Dom Aversano's avatar

Hi Celtic Boy. Not that I am aware of, although he was highly influenced by It's Gonna Rain. Bloom is a very interesting app. It's not deep phasing, but the way that notes and phrases are rearranged touches on similar ideas. Such a nice interface.

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Su Terry's avatar

Very cool! Hypnotic....and the visuals are an excellent accompaniment.

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Dom Aversano's avatar

Thanks, Su. Much appreciated!

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Colin Poulton's avatar

Fascinating stuff! A perverse dream of mine is to phase with other musicians but I’m not sure if it’s even accurately possible unless we’re all using metronomes that are synced to start at the same time at different tempos. Have you seen the video of the guy playing Piano Phase by himself using two pianos?

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Dom Aversano's avatar

Hey Colin, thank you. I've seen that video; it's impressive playing. Although not live, this might be down your street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTwg4mFF32E

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Chris P. Thompson's avatar

Beautiful possibilities for composition... also it would be interesting to see a graph of the resulting composite volume - as the number of samples reinforcing each other vs cancelling each other out gradually shifts over the three hours. Trying to imagine what that might look like.

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Dom Aversano's avatar

This is an interesting thought, although I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean. For instance, if the beginning of the sample was one colour and then that had a gradient to the end of the sample, and then you layered them all on top of each other to see how the colours blended?

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Chris P. Thompson's avatar

simpler actually, I mean just to look at the full composite waveform, which would reach its loudest when the samples were perfectly in sync -- and touch zero the moment that half the samples reach exactly opposite polarity with the other half. Maybe with mathematically proportional waves of volume getting longer and shorter in between. (at least, that's what I imagine).

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