absent detective: Push 2 & Monome Grid - grainfields,flin,operator,spitfire strings

Published on Aug 19, 2018 junklight

"The looping bass player Steve Lawson asked me if I reconstructed tracks to learn from them. I replied I often experiment with peoples techniques - and here I am experimenting with his! :-) Here using Ableton as a performance instrument - starting with pretty much nothing in the session except the instruments and building up as I go a long (the eagle eyed will notice I have a couple of samples in grain fields from an earlier practice session). I'm just recording the output of Ableton in audio hijack so I can use the record function on the push2

Regular viewers will notice I've not put my studio back together yet. I'm experimenting with a more fluid setup - letting me assemble instruments to suit a piece.

I'm very enamoured of grids as interfaces for electronic music of late - the 4ths pattern is actually quite nice to play on and I like the way they can morph into sequencers or whatever.

Lastly the Absent Detective is a character misappropriated from an M John Harrison short story. A hapless person who is perhaps trying to escape their destiny. Only visible in the echos of their assumed previous presence......"