Thursday, January 31, 2008
Recording a song with only Mellotron sounds
YouTube via RothHandle. Parts 1 - 7
"A short series of films from my sessions recording music for a documentary on probably my favorite instrument, The Mellotron. The idea I had was to record music solely using the Mellotrons at the studio and the Rhythmate (more on that later). So far I have recorded two pieces and this is the third one.
My name is Mattias Olsson and I am a Swedish musician and producer. My studio is located in Stockholm, Sweden. I have collected weird and odd instruments for almost ten years now and the Mellotrons, Optigans and Pipeorgans have a tendency to show up on almost all of the albums I work with. It isn't a museum but an alive and creative workplace for bands and artists who want to record "real" sounds away from computers and digital synths.
I filmed it holding the camera with my left hand with my old sony digital camera and playing with me right hand. So if you find the camera technique annoying...blame me.
For more info on the studio and the music recorded there please visit...
www.roth-handle.nu
http://www.myspace.com/57224022"
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that was awesome!
ReplyDeleteThank you...We'll see how it ends.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting! As a sort-of aside, one of the things that stunned me when I got my copy of M-Tron a few months ago was going through all of the rhythm, pattern, and loop tapes. I had heard about the existence of these, but I don't think I've ever heard them used in a recording. There's quite a few of them that would be right at home in a modern techno production. The Mellotronics and Streetly guys were waaaaay ahead of their time with these.
ReplyDeleteThe Loops are really great and they haven't been used almost at all as far as I know. The autokomp flutes you hear in these films were used at the end of Strawberry fields forever.
ReplyDeleteDave, have you ever played a real one ? They are wonderful quirky machines.
No, I've never had the opportunity, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteLet me know the next time you are in Stockholm so you can come by for a testrun...
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