i'm gonna start writing about musicians who i think are really great (not necessarily in order of their greatness). the first one who popped into my head today was alva noto. if you don't know who he is, go here and find out, idiot. come back here after you read up on who he is, 'cause i don't feel like explaining everything to you, you lazy jerk.
alva noto's stuff is pretty goddamn noisy sometimes, and while i don't dislike that stuff, it's not the stuff i'm into... and stuff. the stuff of his i like is the stuff he did with that other guy who's made lots of stuff, ryuichi sakamoto. the album i particularly like is "insen." a good video of them performing music from this album live is here. watch it then come back so you can keep up with the discussion from here on, lazy-ass. jesus, i'm getting tired of having to explain everything to you.
so anyway, the reason alva noto popped into my head these days is that i'm finding myself glitching on trombone. on long, sustained notes, it's become a habit for me to do a tongue-less, "fa-fa-fa-fa" articulation (listen below) as if to imitate some stuttering, glitchy sound i've heard in noto's work. i think i've liked stuttering, glitchy sounds for a long time. i just didn't realize it until i heard alva noto. by the way, the melody in the example is jobim's "triste." you should know that already, and if you don't, you fail. good job, loser.
this kind of playing is similar to the kind of playing in my last post about things that stutter. the difference here is that i'm making these stuttering sounds manually with my embochure, which allows for more flexibility, albeit at the cost of not sounding quite as glitchy, mechanical and nowhere near as fast as with a plugin. i guess when i glitch manually, i'm going for the sound of a skipping record rather than a skipping cd like with plugins.
so yeah, you're welcome.
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