As muttered previously, I have thrown all that is familiar up in the air like it was a bad habit. Gone is the familiar path from Wavelab to Cubase to plug in heaven – no air – no transit of sound. Instead I have a room choked with bits of outboard synths and signal processors, an archaic sampler, a Mac (from which I still can’t really tell arse from elbow – Logic, to me, is a really ironic name!) and a bunch of unfamiliar source audio files. Also, I have one eye on recording and another on trying to keep the processing simple enough to be reproduced live. Am I succeeding? Well, yes and no. I can undertake a degree of manipulation now while recording – but that is not to say it’ll be reproducable. I think the sessions are well worth archiving – and may even surface, but it still seems to be the case that any public presentation will be a one off – completely unrelated to any of the recordings.
How, I wonder, will it appear, to have a performer not reading from a score but from a bunch of user manuals? I feel like i am out in the snow trying to get the last few matches to light!
