I'm finally setting aside some quality time to play this new instrument. I recorded this yesterday: Soundplane into four voices of Aalto via OSC.
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It's easier to play Soundplane when you have quantization on. But here I’m playing in its completely fretless mode. Each row of keys is acting as one continuous pitch control, like a violin string. The rows are separated by fourths, giving the whole instrument a range of four and a half octaves.
I'm playing here loosely in Raga Yaman, and going off the rails a time or two. If you want to hear a breathtaking example of what this Raga really sounds like, Google “Ustad Rashid Khan singing Raga Yaman 1988.”
Awesome. Did you use Kyma for the string-modeling sound?
Aalto.
Wonderful, can't wait for January.
Dig the cross-legged stance! I half expected to see you start levitating about one minute into the video.
still working on that.
unbelievably beautiful!
MindBlowing Instrument ! Staggering Possibilities. .. . .
"Art creating Art".
Hey I realize it's probably unnecessary, but I want to apologize for making a joke in reaction to your post/performance, Randy. According to Google Translate, I actually meant: "beautiful meditative performance, great choice for a piece and impressed with the fretless action! This really makes me wish I had a Soundplane in front of me" or something close to that.
I know you probably didn't take it the wrong way, but for whatever it's worth I feel rude having said that a week ago, and I'm working on saying fewer dumb things on the internet. :)
I do really wish I had a Soundplane in front of me. This and the "Resonations" demo are getting a lot of replay until then.
I was not in any way offended. Still can't levitate though.