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.
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.
Great read! The ending of the piece in the article kind of reminds me of digital aliasing, like when a voice is dragged out in a jungle track so you can hear all it's tiny little textures. Also this record, https://ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/album/chords Looking forward to hearing more!
Hi Aaron, thank you. And yes, the sound touches on and mimics various effects, such as chorusing and time-stretching. I saw Ellen Arkbro perform at The Barbican some years ago; I like the guitar track on the album you shared.
Great post. I fully understand your fascination with phasing in music. I've long been a fan of Steve Reich's experiments to the point where I have tried it myself many times with different non tape player setups. I posted an extract of my phasing experiments using the Elektron Digitakt here https://whirrings.substack.com/p/takt which you might find interesting! Thanks.
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?
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.
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?
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).
Super interesting. I was wondering if this technique in any way relates to Pauline Oliveros' practice of Deep Listening?
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.
I wonder if non-musician Brian Eno ever experimented with deep phasing. I downloaded his tech app Bloom.
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.
Great read! The ending of the piece in the article kind of reminds me of digital aliasing, like when a voice is dragged out in a jungle track so you can hear all it's tiny little textures. Also this record, https://ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/album/chords Looking forward to hearing more!
Hi Aaron, thank you. And yes, the sound touches on and mimics various effects, such as chorusing and time-stretching. I saw Ellen Arkbro perform at The Barbican some years ago; I like the guitar track on the album you shared.
Great post. I fully understand your fascination with phasing in music. I've long been a fan of Steve Reich's experiments to the point where I have tried it myself many times with different non tape player setups. I posted an extract of my phasing experiments using the Elektron Digitakt here https://whirrings.substack.com/p/takt which you might find interesting! Thanks.
I'm listening now Mark. It sounds great to me. It's exciting to hear these ideas with percussion.
Very cool! Hypnotic....and the visuals are an excellent accompaniment.
Thanks, Su. Much appreciated!
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?
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
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.
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?
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).