A collaborative project developing from the Sunday Session 3rd Feb 2013
Zizhi, Matias and I improvised to two of Phil’s spoken word pieces: There was an immediate spark. Although Matias was looking for something far different, his guitar, the combination of Phil’s voice and word, Zizhi on keyboard, my guitar with FX, swapping during the piece with Zizhi, for bass and/or drums or whatever was appropriate
The combination worked well enough for us all to agree to record a demo for Phil to present to possible gigs. We’re locked in for Saturday 9th Feb 2013.
— update 9th Feb 2013 — Rehearsal recording, improvisation 9th Feb 2013 of “CYBORG”. Work in progress. Mixed as it happened, cleaned up pops and clunks only, some compression, EQ, reverb
Phil Cleary – Author, Vox. Matias Galvez – Guitar/fx, Drums, bass. Zizhi Zhou Ipad/fx, drums, bass, vox. Benni Seidel Guitar/fx, Keyboard, Engineering
— update 16th Feb 2013 —
Recorded three versions of “EMERGENCY”
Phil Cleary – Author, Vox. Zizhi Zhou Ipad/fx, bass, vox. Matias Galvez – Guitar/fx. Benni Seidel Guitar/fx, Keyboard, Vox, Engineering
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— update 18th Feb 2013 —
Emergency 2 – take 3 – Preliminary mix 01.
Emergency 2 – take 3 – Preliminary mix 02.
Lemme know what you think ….
— update 20th Feb 2013 – At Phil’s suggestion and additional pause at 1:39 —
Emergency 2 – take 3 – Preliminary mix 03.
— update 21st Feb 2013 – Tweaked —
Emergency 2 – take 3 – mix 4.
— update 2 21st Feb 2013 —
One of the problems involved in recording improvisations live. I do not yet have the facilities to provide everyone with individual head sets and feeds. The leakage can be edited out where Phil isn’t speaking, not where he is speaking. However doing this effects the panning & volume of the instruments. The voice is in the centre and Matias & Zizhi are panned L & R. Best solution. Record voice again :-)
— update-3-12th-May-2013 – Voice re-recorded – FINAL MIX —
— Some come easy —
From the 3rd March 2013 Sunday Session – An improv – Spoken word by Phil with improvised music – Sat Nav. An improv that turned out to be good enough to include in the Philip Cleary Spoken word demo
Philip Cleary – spoken word, Nabil Daoud – guitar, James Cameron – guitar, Zizhi Zhou – Keyboard, Benni Seidel – drums & engineer
Shortlink http://wp.me/p38vMA-52
Studio reserved for 11:00am – 3:00pm Sat 9th 2013
11:00am – 12:noon Audio set up and looking at video shoot possibilities.
Phil, Zizhi, Benni locked in … enough to GO!
Phil, Zizhi, Matias, Benni confirmed
I’m feeling very humbled and in awe of the artists accompaning me (and my words) on Cyborg.
That we did this in one take is nothing short of amazing…
And all thanks must go to Benni for making this piece possible.
Thank you one and all.
Phil
No problem Phil. It was fun. Matias and Zizhi are great to work with. Nice combination.
Benni
Fantastic Sound Engineering on this track and excellent soundscapers, really made a difference to totally impromptu works, or stream of unconciousness’es workin’ their way to some kind of state of mindlessness. Thank you one and all.
A bunch of musos bein’ naughty. Reminds me, we oughtta re-record the voice on emergency