This eleven minute section from our performance during The Battle of Everyouth at the Minneapolis Institute of Art started shortly after Jon Davis switched from playing bass to bass clarinet. Throughout this section I was mostly turning knobs on the Monotron and Pro-One while DJ Luke Anderson processed and looped the bass clarinet and Graham O’Brien played drums.
Battle of Everyouth (66.40 to 77.37)
Vexations Synth Bells
This evolving bassline that’s arpeggiated on tritones was the apex of my interpretation of Erik Satie’s composition Vexations during Piotr Szyhalski piece Empty Words at Northern Spark early on the morning of Sunday, June 5, 2011. Eventually I will reproduce how I arranged these parts for the performance and share it here.
Evolving Vexations Bassline
I am quite fond of how this short phrase from my interpretation of Vexations by Erik Satie turned out. I used Ableton to arpeggiate the upper melody on tritones while manually adjusting the patch on the Roland MKS-80 with the Bitstream 3X MIDI controller. This is what came out.
Vexations Arpeggiated Melody
Here’s another segment from the DKO with DJ Luke Anderson performance on Saturday, June 4, 2011 on the steps of the Minneapolis Institute of Art accompanying the projected work in The Battle of Everyouth. This was a tremendous performance experience for me. Re-living it through the recordings has been enlightening as well. Video documentation is in the works.
Battle of Everyouth (34:00 to 39:16)