[ambient/live] Inside an Echo Chamber v.I (DS)

[Louigi Verona]

This is a tune I recorded for the Linux Audio Conference 2010. Performed live with free software only, on GNU/Linux.

http://www.louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=music&t=catalogue&num=0

Just for those that are curious what software was used exactly, I used Kluppe, Rakarrack, Ladish for session handling and Ardour for recording. KORG nanoKontrol as a midi controller.

[KrazyKatz]

This is beautiful. I listen to it in the background while I work.

Could you elaborate on how you made it? Did you just improvise it and record direct to disk?

[uncloned]

you certainly are the master at this kind of music.


did the show go over well?

[Louigi Verona]

Thanks for kind words, guys.

Yes, it was an improvised recording. I used a loop player to play pads I made beforehand and then I routed various loops through effect racks and changed them in real time.

The tune was recorded from my home and then I sent it to organizers and they put it into an "installation". Unfortunately, as far as I was told, not a lot of people really paid attention. Initially, I planned to play it live, but could not go due to getting visa too late, so I guess it was boring for people to just sit and listen to a recording.

To get an impression of how I usually do such stuff, you can look at a video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUUWImv0USg

This is just playing around with a vocoder. To record "Inside an Echo Chamber", I used two Rakarracks, 4 loop slots in Kluppe and all of it was routed into 4 tracks of Ardour, each of which had different delay settings, most with unusually high feedback set, which is an effect on which the whole tune is based - high feedback echo, thus the name.