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Metal Machine Music
Rolling Stone has a review of Lou Reed’s recent live performance of Metal Machine Music – Reeds’ controversial symphony of noise.
When Metal Machine Music was released in 1975, people did not know what to make of it. The album, influenced by the drone music of La Monte Young and John Cale, consists entirely of guitar feedback played at different speeds.
Two guitars were tuned in unusual ways and played with different reverb levels. Reed then placed the guitars in front of their amplifiers, and the feedback from the very large amps would vibrate the strings — the guitars were, effectively, playing themselves. He recorded the work on a four-track tape recorder in his New York apartment, mixing the four tracks for stereo. Read more…
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Filed under: Software Synthesizers & Samplers, Virtual Instruments
Applied Acoustics Systems has released Strum Electric GS-1, a guitar track production plug-in for music producers and composers.
Strum Electric GS-1 runs on both Mac OS X and Windows, as a standalone application as well as in host sequencers supporting the VST, Audio Units, and RTAS plug-in formats.
You can preview Strum Electric GS-1 below:
Strum Electric GS-1 is available now at a retail price of $229.
If you’ve used AAS Strum Electric GS-1, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…
This video showcases a new invention from MIT Media Lab student Amit Zoran – the Chameleon Guitar:
The Chameleon Guitar is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable. This inserted section, the soundboard, can be switched with one made of a different kind of wood, or with a different structural support system, or with one made of a different material altogether. Then, the sound generated by the electronic pickups on that board can be manipulated by a computer to produce the effect of a different size or shape of the resonating chamber.
Zoran built the first proof of concept version last summer, with a variety of removable wooden inserts. The concept worked, so he went on to build a more polished version with an easier quick-change mechanism for switching the inserts, so that a musician could easily change the sound of the instrument during the course of a concert — providing a variety of sound characteristics, but always leaving the same body, neck and frets so that the instrument always feels the same.
Ffive electronic pickups provide detailed information about the wood’s acoustic response to the vibration of the strings. This information is then processed by the computer to simulate different shapes and sizes of the resonating chamber.
“The original signal is not synthetic, it’s acoustic,” Zoran says. “Then we can simulate different shapes, or a bigger instrument.” The guitar can even be made to simulate shapes that would be impossible to build physically. “We can make a guitar the size of a mountain,” he says. Or the size of a mouse.
It’s fascinating research.
Would you play a Chameleon Guitar?
via Cybermusic on Twitter
This is a preview of Craig Anderton’s new Electronic Guitars Expansion Pack for Rapture and Rapture LE.
If you breathe and can play an electric guitar, they need you in St. Louis.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has put out a call for 80 guitarists and 20 bass guitarists for a performance of experimental composer Glenn Branca’ Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City).
The performance will be at The Pageant in St. Louis on Nov. 13 and is part of the SLSO Guitar Festival.
Here is a video from a rehearsal for a previous performance:
