Indoor Voices

by N.E. Hertzberg

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"Improvising with Algorithms"

I've been a big fan of free jazz for a while. If you follow me on Instagram, you can see on my stories that all month (April, my birth month, is also Jazz Appreciation Month) I have been listening some serious scronking and honking type stuff.

I have never really played "jazz" by myself or with a group, but I have played plenty of improvisational music sets and have always felt an unbelievable sense of creative freedom while performing them.

When quarantine hit, I was exploring options to make the most grandiose sounding "band" that I could, all by myself. I also wanted to stay active and get my drumming chops up - so I started playing for 30-45 minutes a day and recording a bunch of it. I tried finding tools to get that fuller sound I wanted, and finally found what I was looking for. To not nerd out too much - that technical info is below.

"Indoor Voices" is the result of 3 different recording sessions, completely improvised, that I stitched together into one long piece. I was debating how to release this, if I would release it at all, but, here we are! Life is too short to let things you enjoy just sit in/on a hard drive- as my "Misplaced Moments" series is showing me.

Listen, I know I am by FAR no jazz drummer or that amazing, but I can keep a beat and think that my inexperience led to me trying some interesting techniques or grooves here. There are some obvious dips into my punk/hardcore background as well. I would love to try music like this with a group (as a drummer or otherwise) when this whole thing is over.

I know it might be a challenging listen, but I hope you enjoy it!

~Technical Info~
I found a triggering software by a company called apulSoft (apulsoft.ch) that allowed me to trigger samples via microphones. I thought that I could link a bass sound to my kick and something else to my snare - in this case - a sample bank of 300 saxophone sounds, including alto, baritone, and soprano. The samples are randomized and have a +/- 3 octave parameter on them as well, meaning that over the course of the recording, you probably don't hear a saxophone phrase that is exactly the same. I am working at getting my own saxophone back in working condition so that I can lean less on samples in the future.

Only two microphones were used on the drums, again, triggering the above bass and saxophone samples. I also used an arpeggiator in Ableton Live that I also set to "randomize" functions, that I adjusted the parameters of via my Launchpad while recording these tracks live.

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released May 1, 2020

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