Dicta mamo ti bori (feat. Estelle & Mickey Mouse)
1 December 2010
Dicta mamo ti bori is a song in romanes (Gypsy language). It is discussed in my pedagogical book. On a saturday night, Estelle and I tweaked it on sooperlooper. The performance is 100% vocal. The Mickey Mouse part takes advantage of the software's ability to change the speed of the loop.
Echoes on kaval
4 November 2008
Experimenting with kaval and different kinds of echo.
First excerpt
On the backround loop we have pandeiro and acoustic bass guitar. The kaval enters raw, then gains a sweeping bandwidth filter controlled by a Lorenz attractor (which makes the filter random).
Second excerpt
Backgound loop has shifted to bass + bendir. The kaval is played without echo. Towards the middle, the free "floating" chorus transforms in a pile of loops. The last couch is tweaked with pitch shift.
Third excerpt
On the background loop there is bass + pandeiro (played vertically, as a bendir). The kaval has long range stereo echo trailing beneath.
Reggae style
10 June 2007
The loops here are synthesizer-based (midi keyboard controlling fluidsynth). The kaval plays in-between vocal and instrumental attitudes.
First excerpt
Second excerpt
In this excerpt, the kaval is occasionally looped too. The excerpt ends on a question-response game, where the loop is the "response".
You can download the loops of this session by clicking here. To use them in freewheeling, uncompress the archive in the "scenes" folder of your installation.