Bach festival recommendations

been invited by some friends to play an overnight Bach festival. Sounds like anything is fair game: lots of noise folks, classically trained, and just straight up experimental stuff. point is, it's supposed to be "your Bach" and I'm thinking I'm the electronic representative here (I may be the only one with drum machines :).

 

I basically have no music theory background so there's no way I can fit in with some complex counterpoint. Any suggestions out there? 

 

Also, I think it's totally fair game to play something that's not entirely mine, so if there's some (autechre??) track that would fit this description, I'd love to hear / re work it it to use.

Edited October 21, 2018 by mammalsolidarity

May be a bit obvious but you could dig up some MIDI files of Bach/whatever and use those, interpret to your liking, etc.

Bring a modular harpsichord and melt faces

  On 10/21/2018 at 5:59 PM, auxien said:

May be a bit obvious but you could dig up some MIDI files of Bach/whatever and use those, interpret to your liking, etc.

 

yeah that's my plan so far

coincidentally, i just watched this video yesterday... 

 

https://youtu.be/M2kcOCsALnw

answer: paulstretch

Yeah, go full artyfart on it, midi files just won't please.

  On 10/22/2018 at 10:46 AM, Gocab said:

Yeah, go full artyfart on it, midi files just won't please.

Get one of his harpsichord concertos but map it all to General Midi gm/gs channel 10 played back on an early 90s soundcard. Claim it's a statement on how the timeless nature of his composition can become dated by future technologies.

lol, good call

I used to make tonnes of electronic contrapuntal stuff but there's not much of it left online.

A simple canony/isomorphism piece here: 

  On 10/22/2018 at 11:32 AM, mcbpete said:

Get one of his harpsichord concertos but map it all to General Midi gm/gs channel 10 played back on an early 90s soundcard. Claim it's a statement on how the timeless nature of his composition can become dated by future technologies.

I actually got into Bach when I was little because the music program that came with the Acorn Archimedes had a demo file that played Toccata and Fugue in D minor with the computer's shitty plucked string synth. It sounded great then and would probably still sound great now.

I have a love of Bach and Chopin and used to write a lot of counterpoint focused pieces. One year, for the RPM Challenge, I wrote an album of 4 part harmonies using square waves. If you download this EP, then you get ten extra tracks. It's free, FYI.

 

Feel free to play anything you like.

 

https://soundcloud.com/william-s-braintree/broke-as-bach

ah this is good stuff, will holler if i play some of it :)

  On 10/22/2018 at 9:28 PM, Braintree said:

I have a love of Bach and Chopin and used to write a lot of counterpoint focused pieces. One year, for the RPM Challenge, I wrote an album of 4 part harmonies using square waves. If you download this EP, then you get ten extra tracks. It's free, FYI.

 

Feel free to play anything you like.

 

https://soundcloud.com/william-s-braintree/broke-as-bach

  On 10/21/2018 at 5:43 PM, mammalsolidarity said:

Any suggestions out there? 

 

kys?

For anyone in New England, here's more info on the festival; it's all-night marathon of experimental / non-traditional musicians in Providence this Friday. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/203482493882377/?active_tab=about

 

I go on 1AM if you wanna say hi.

  On 10/23/2018 at 3:42 PM, waldszenen said:

 

  On 10/21/2018 at 5:43 PM, mammalsolidarity said:

Any suggestions out there? 

 

kys?

 

fuck off

  On 11/9/2018 at 1:54 AM, Salvatorin said:

 

  On 10/23/2018 at 3:42 PM, waldszenen said:

 

  On 10/21/2018 at 5:43 PM, mammalsolidarity said:

Any suggestions out there? 

 

kys?

 

fuck off

 

 

what's kys and why the response? 

Edited November 11, 2018 by mammalsolidarity

innernet shorthand for kill your self

  On 11/11/2018 at 3:56 PM, hello spiral said:

innernet shorthand for kill your self

heh ok, so that guy was telling my to kill myself in response to my request for recommendations? i don't follow, but ok guy.

Edited November 12, 2018 by mammalsolidarity