Remote Duets project
Hello! Thanks for your interest in this project :) If you know anybody else who might be interested in taking part please forward this link on to them and tell them to get in touch with me.
(TL/DR: download one or more of the tracks in the playlist below, record yourself playing along with them (just you, not my stuff on your recording), send it to me, I shall do magic with editing.)
The idea of the project is as follows: I have made an improvised recording and posted it on Soundcloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/petemaskreplica/sets/remote-duets-tracks/s-Q6udlF5ZiEj
The idea is to have a number of musicians record duets with these tracks. I then edit recordings together that were recorded with the same original track. My track will NOT be part of this. So e.g. if Jane and Freddy both record a track to go with my track 1, their efforts can be joined to form a duet between Jane and Freddy, separated by the degree of my track. If Rod also records a rack to go with my track1, then his contribution could become a duet with Jane or a duet with Freddy.
There is an obvious potential expansion of this universe but I'm keeping it to duets for simplicity's sake for now.
Track 7 is the unedited original recording that I made, Tracks 1-6 are consecutive sections from that recording. So depending on time/ circumstances, you can do a quick 3 minute jam or go for the full 23' extravaganza. if you want to do several shorter ones that's great too! Whatever you have time to do. Whatever you do will be mixed with someone else who's worked with the same recording. Some of the people doing this are established duos so this will hopefully shine new light on their dynamic, while others will be "dueting" for the first time. If new live collaborations come out of this when we're eventually allowed to play live again I shall be hugely pleased.
Instructions
I have a vague idea to try and get something releasable together in early September, so if you can send me recordings by the end of August that would be fantastic. The project may progress beyond that point, we'll see.
Any questions, contact me! Thanks for taking part in this :)
Durations of the track are:
Track 1: 3'08"
Track 2: 3'08"
Track 3: 3'08"
Track 4: 4'03"
Track 5: 6'52"
Track 6: 3'10"
Track 7: 23'26" (this is the unedited recording from which tracks 1-6 were edited)
(TL/DR: download one or more of the tracks in the playlist below, record yourself playing along with them (just you, not my stuff on your recording), send it to me, I shall do magic with editing.)
The idea of the project is as follows: I have made an improvised recording and posted it on Soundcloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/petemaskreplica/sets/remote-duets-tracks/s-Q6udlF5ZiEj
The idea is to have a number of musicians record duets with these tracks. I then edit recordings together that were recorded with the same original track. My track will NOT be part of this. So e.g. if Jane and Freddy both record a track to go with my track 1, their efforts can be joined to form a duet between Jane and Freddy, separated by the degree of my track. If Rod also records a rack to go with my track1, then his contribution could become a duet with Jane or a duet with Freddy.
There is an obvious potential expansion of this universe but I'm keeping it to duets for simplicity's sake for now.
Track 7 is the unedited original recording that I made, Tracks 1-6 are consecutive sections from that recording. So depending on time/ circumstances, you can do a quick 3 minute jam or go for the full 23' extravaganza. if you want to do several shorter ones that's great too! Whatever you have time to do. Whatever you do will be mixed with someone else who's worked with the same recording. Some of the people doing this are established duos so this will hopefully shine new light on their dynamic, while others will be "dueting" for the first time. If new live collaborations come out of this when we're eventually allowed to play live again I shall be hugely pleased.
Instructions
- Choose your track(s) and download it/them.
- Record a duet using that track as your partner. IMPORTANT: the file you produce should contain only yourself - the original track should not be audible. I'm assuming you've got some kind of DAW, but if it's a matter of listening to the track on headphones and recording yourself on your phone that will be fine!
- How you approach this is up to you. I would encourage improvisation but do whatever is easiest, practical and comfortable for you.
- Your track can be the same length, shorter or longer than the one you are duetting with. I shall assume that your track and mine begin together unless you tell me otherwise.
- If you can record WAV or AIFF formats that's ideal, but whatever you can do with the equipment you have to hand is fine. Any extraneous noises that happen to find their way onto the recording are also fine.
- Please use the following naming convention for your track: [track number]-[yourname] e.g. 01-peternagle.wav
- Send your track back to me - petemaskreplica (at) gmail (dot) com) - via WeTransfer/ Dropbox link/etc.
- Final tracks will be made by editing together performances of musicians who duetted with the same track. No edit will be made to your track beyond aligning and balancing/ EQ'ing.
- I will assemble an album from all this. At the moiment my inclination is to out it out on Bandcamp as a pay what you want and any money that comes in can go to help out closed venues (probably 100 Years Gallery/ I'Klectik as those are places I've played myself quite a lot.). Open to suggestions about this.
- I'm also thinking about ways to make this an interactive/ online thing, I shall let you know if this actually happens though.
- IMPORTANT LEGAL STUFF: The stems will be made available to anyone involved in the project who wishes to make their own versions, I shall assume that by taking part in the project you are giving permission for me to share them in this way. All recordings remain the copyright of those who recorded them and anyone who wishes to use them will need to make their own arrangements with the relevant musicians.
- MORE IMPORTANT LEGAL STUFF: While I'm on the subject of permissions, I shall state that by taking part you give me permission to use your recordings in the ways stated above and also to include them as part of my eventual portfolio submission. I'm not anticipating there being any money in any of this but if that changes I shall make sure the Big Experimental riches are divided equally amongst all participants.
I have a vague idea to try and get something releasable together in early September, so if you can send me recordings by the end of August that would be fantastic. The project may progress beyond that point, we'll see.
Any questions, contact me! Thanks for taking part in this :)
Durations of the track are:
Track 1: 3'08"
Track 2: 3'08"
Track 3: 3'08"
Track 4: 4'03"
Track 5: 6'52"
Track 6: 3'10"
Track 7: 23'26" (this is the unedited recording from which tracks 1-6 were edited)