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