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Lightbath - +Reworks: Insinyur Cahaya

from Jaipongan Music of West Java by Idjah Hadidjah & Jugala Jaipongan

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It's funny, I absolutely love gamelan music, yet my rework ended up sounding nothing like gamelan. In fact, it was an entirely new approach and workflow for me. I took a small bit from the original piece 'Tablo Kasmaran naek Gendu' (which I originally thought was called 'Sinyur') and ran it through a granular process to create a textural pad that I could perform in real time. I then used that first performance as a template over which to layer what I like to call 'wrangled generative' from the modular to control synths and multisampled instruments like the voice and prepared piano. It’s the 'gardening' approach I use with my all-modular pieces. I then added a few more layers of live-performed instruments and set it all to scatterings of the percussion parts from the original piece and ended up with this sort of collage that seems to float in and out with the breeze.

Composer and improviser Bryan Noll explores time and space with his musical project, Lightbath. Taking inspiration from Brian Eno's view of composers as gardeners, Noll plants musical seeds with his synthesizers and, through improvisation, guides their development and growth into pieces that unfold in the present moment.

“Working with generative processes on the modular synthesizer feels like a collaboration,” he says, “as if the synthesizer is alive and interacting with me. It’s an active meditation where I set the initial framework and just listen while remaining agile enough to guide the musical conversation.”

Noll developed his sound and process as Lightbath by making YouTube videos showing the physical act of coaxing music out of his colorful boxes of wires, knobs, and lights. As Pitchfork puts it: “Once you have submitted to these videos, it can be hard to pull yourself away. The artfully unpretentious demonstrations… occupy a strange, sui-generis niche: Featuring balmy sounds, blinking LEDs, and low-key set-dressing, they are part performance, part tech tutorial, and part audio-visual wallpaper.”
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from Jaipongan Music of West Java, released March 6, 2020

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