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The Ivory EP by Abstract Audio Systems
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fave it Ambient | Experimental
5 tracks | 22 minutes
Released Sep 2005
on Machine Tribe Recordings
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Five lo-fi piano pieces recorded using a handheld. A palpable melancholy permeates this release, but travels hand in hand with a sense of hope.
Bio / Background
The digital and the organic have always fascinated me.
The former captures every tiny aspect of sound, ignoring nothing. This complexity affords a musician enormous power over the music they create.
The latter is the result of direct contact between the instrument and the musician. Each touch returns a tone. This simplicity affords a musician the opportunity to create in the rawest sense of the word.
But what happens when the digital and the organic meet? This is the concept behind these recordings.
I wanted to explore what effect a primitive digital recorder would have on purely organic sounds. What colors and overtones would be added? What would be lost?
The contents of this CD was recorded using a Dell Axim handheld computer placed above the keyboard of a baby grand piano. None of these songs were planned or pre-composed. All the melodies you will hear were completely improvised. These sessions were subsequently downloaded off the Axim and manipulated in the studio.
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