STICKY JAM #6 - SPLINTER DREAM (COMING AND GOING)

Simple dreamy loops, a shifting mood really. The fragmented textures are a granular abstraction from recordings I made using an electric kalimba and an Old Blood Noise pedal (Minim), with a simple guitar part added using an OTO BIM; this guitar part was then used to make a texture underneath, so 3 layers. Both these recorded parts were routed through the reverb of my vintage ROLAND VX-55.

The video uses two short loops re-filmed with my old VHS camera then cut over the top of my VHS copy of Memento through the Vidiot (there are parts of another film but I cannot remember what it was!). I used the old-school mixing on my old Roland V4 to layer the dancer and the background.

I was channelling that nebulous feeling of a lost bit of dream that you keep leaving and coming back to . . .

In the true nature of these demos, there is an extremely sticky bit where the guitar peaks and clips. I might re-record at some point.

Sticky Jam #4 - "Miasma"

Less ambient this time and a lot of fun with Korg Volcas and Maschine. The main track is a live jam with Korg Volca Sample, Bass and Keys, plus using Maschine to play chords on the V Keys. I then jammed some extra high V Bass lines, then manually synched - the extra bits track into the left and right channels, sounds great on headphones. Then I used a sound reactive analogue video layer from the Vidiot into my digital layers and made the video mix (some minor post-editing also). Acid techno! I think.

A still from the video

A still from the video

Sticky Jam #3 - "Pollen"

So, this is the first recorded visual mix using the live analogue input. I had a demo track “Pollen” ready to go for a couple of weeks so decided to get some visuals to work with it and am really happy with the outcome. The footage from the beginning of The Incredible Shrinking Man was perfect overlaid on other video textures and fits the music well. Winner. 

STICKY JAM #2 - "SUBMERGED"

So, a longer one this time. This one is a much more ambient demo. The sticky definitely happened in the audio, which I didn’t notice whilst recording, but when playing back to mix visuals to I noticed two big fluffy clicks!

Still from “Submerged”

Still from “Submerged”

Sticky Jam # 1

So this is the first one, did a live recording (after a couple of mishaps!) of the music, then played it back, grabbed some clips it made me think of, did a live mix. Came out pretty well I think.

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