Aw, glad you dug it some!
moid wrote:Just noticed this and I'm watching the live performance and have realised I now need to add lyre to the list of instruments I don't own, but need to!
Yeah, the lyre is super-fun and easy to approach. And pretty cheap, especially the 7-string ones like I got. The next step up is a 16-string, which probably opens more possibilities (especially some more harp-like harmonics) but I like the constraint of 7 notes. It's tuned DEGABDE, so it's not possible to play something discordant!
Those notes make it pretty easy to play on guitar, too, though it calls for sight-reading at speeds I am nowhere near.
moid wrote:What sort of reverb were you putting that through?
The reverb — and the synths — are all Zoia!
Patrick's one of the people that I can nerd out about pedals with, so I think he brought all those to jokingly show me up — he had quite a few less on hand when we rehearsed.
moid wrote:The third piece with both of you playing together had a sort of moody Fripp / Eno No Pussyfooting feel to it, but then it became something else more electronic and then returned to the drones - that was very interesting to listen to; I really liked the drone parts (I'm a sucker for swelling sounds).
I love this composition — I just love the
look of it even! Full disclosure, as I said, I can't sight read at playing speed, so I "translated" it to a format that I could follow... I basically numbered each of those notes, and made little tree diagrams showing which notes can lead to which others... and I numbered the pads on the Zoia correspondingly with bits of tape.
The other one is super-interesting to me, as I don't normally play/think musically in that rhythmic sort of way. It was a cool step out from my usual m.o. to think about trying to play quarter and eighth notes!
moid wrote:Overall this was a wonderful performance and reminded me of some of the wondrously odd things that I used to experience in cultural centrum's in lesser known parts of Belgium in happier times!
The other duet performance was very avant garde skronk... I decided I'd had enough at that point
I'm old enough to know when I've had too much avant garde skronk (plays havoc with the digestion at my age!)
I'm super-lucky to live in a place where there's an approachable music community that made it seem easy and natural that I would shift from being an audience member to playing... I wish everyone could find that!
Second set was indeed top-notch skronk, with top skronk peeps.