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Prepared Bass Guitar + DIY Ebow & DIY Video Mixer

2014-08-11T01:44:02.622Z

Prepared Bass Guitar + DIY Ebow & DIY Video Mixer

Bass Solo Mutilation|Sound Doodle|Tabletop ~ Gen Thalz

Warning: this audio-video presentation may cause irritation, distress, or even nausea to others. Viewer discretion is advised.

We do love bass. And this is a sound exploration/exploitation with our beloved bass guitar, the first music instrument that we ever touch. Though we didn't master any known scales and bass techniques, we deeply hope that in this performance we slapped, hits, tapped, and slides too many-many-many notes as possible, overload it with chord progressions and finally harness different sounds unknown or taboo in bass playing.

All sounds was done and imporvised through/from our old rusty, mistune, loosen strings bass guitar running through a several effects and DIY ebow. Prepared with mostly found objects as follows...

- 1 fancy chopstick
- 1 nail polish bottle
- 1 nail cutter
- 1 tape measure
- 1 stainless cup
- 1 tweezer
- 2 wrench (small and medium size)

Influenced and inspired by John Cage and Hauschka prepared piano, Keith Rowe prepared guitar, and Machinefabriek drum solo.

Video is the actual footage of us doing the improvisation/sound doodling mix with feeds from a videoke mic. Synthesized and mixup using a DIY analog video mixer project of us. This video mixer is based on Karl Klomp's "Dirty Video Mixer", we circuit bent it by adding one more pot to make it more tweakable or should we say, we just love turning more knobs and connceting wires. ;)

"Boredom as the catalyst of creativity and inventions." ~ Mark Applebaum [music composer|theorist|professor]

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink Floyd cover] ~ Gen Thalz

2014-07-25T03:20:23.520Z

*please listen with headphones

Our first attempt to do a complete cover song and it's full of pretension, dreams, delusions, and ambition - considering it's from the Floyds'! But hey, we need to get this psychedelic paranoia out of our heads, also this is a personal favorites of us from them and we are deeply moved after hearing the version of this song from the great Mr. Mika Vainio (electronic/noise musician), and our newly found progressive metal band OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). So we dearly hope that we give justice covering this trippy-enigmatic-magical song though the recordings is not on its best quality and vocals is a bad idea haha :)

All sounds was made from analog electronic hardware, except for the "bell" or the sine wave sounds which we done/programmed using a free android app called S.A.M.M.I., there is also some noises that happens during recording and editing which is not intentional but we see it as "happy accident", we like it so we keep it.

- recorded using an old multitrack tape recorder.
- arranged, master, and mixdown using DAW.
- spoken sampled words by Morpheus from The Matrix movie (redpill scene).

And for the visuals, obviously it is composed of several random footage of our gears that we used overlapping each other, combined with a different video feedback loop clip that we shot using an ordinary webcam staring at itself on a pc monitor... No special effects and animation.

Lyrics-

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the eaves the swallow is resting

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine.
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Morpheus: The matrix is everywhere, its all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. (Neo: What truth?) That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you can not smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.

Look/Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun (several times).

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes...

Call The Technician ~ Gen Thalz

2014-01-21T01:25:56.017Z

Live Analog Electronic Set

Demo

*Recorded using a Sony Digicam