Exquisite Corpse Applied to Music Composition
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- In which I take part in a game of musical Exquisite Corpse, a technique that was brought to fame by the French Surrealists of the 1920s. I use my Eurorack modular synthesizer, piano, an Eowave Metalik speaker and a Roland SH02 to create a composition that is part of long chain of pieces by other artists. Vancouver label Hotham Sound challenged me to this beautiful project, with is now available as an album: hothamsoundrec...
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Check out the album that this part of: hothamsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-same-river-twice
ahhh! i listened to that just yesterday (Loris S Sarid posted about it) and had no idea you were in it til seeing this video.
“Hi, I’m Hainbach.” Happiness.
When you mentioned the string quartet, it reminded me of “The Rite of Spring” in Fantasia, the third movement specifically, when all the dinosaurs were dying. Amazing work.
The entire album (2 tracks) is great. It has provided an ever changing soundtrack to my daily evening strolls for the past week.
I loved that video and your creative process! Thanks so much for sharing this!
Brilliant! I’ve recently been thinking how to create longer structured pieces using Eurorack... and this is the answer! To make myself the exquisite corpse:
Lay down a complex track/segment/‘tune’, then leave it a while without ever playing it back, then only listening to the last twenty seconds, lay down the next part with only dim memories of the first!
And so on, until after several weeks I have a Eurorack concerto!
I’ve always wondered how I would make use of one of my earliest influences - Grandmaster Flash’s Adventures on the Wheels of Steel - a cogent and coherent track made of extremely disparate successive fragments and chunks of other people’s music... back when copyright wasn’t an issue with early hip hop, and way before mashups (and the word itself) were a thing.
Very very interesting.
Thank you!!!
Fun game, fun video, fun album. I was reminded in this of the Matmos album that came out last year, The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form that sprawls across three discs and features contributions from 99 collaborators. I love these kind of exercises! Also I found some really great albums also on the Hot Ham Sound Recordings bandcamp after your album: Sparrowing by Khyex and Universal Synthesizer Interface V. 1 by Kristen Roos. This seems like a great label to follow. Congrats to allow who appeared in the Same River Twice.
Wow. No offense to your other work but this might be my favorite! Beautifully intense.
Never has a piece of music given me as many shivers as this little piece, it was hauntingly beautiful, thank you Hainbach.
Very inspiring project ! The resonances/feedback in your track are beautiful.
I love when synth are put through resonant speakers. Sounds distort and meld together. One of my favorite tricks.
whats an resonant speaker?
@@noordholland648 You know how some objects resonate at certain pitches. Some speakers do that and it sounds great.
@@destroyerofcitysduck5937 oh right! my speakers do that atm. super annoying but could also put it to use now then?
@@destroyerofcitysduck5937you'd capture it with a mic?
@@noordholland648 I'd do that.
I've been meaning to set-up a collaborative "Exquisite Corpse" album for ages now. I was concerned that it might be a mixing nightmare trying to balance each of the participants pieces, particularly if the tracks are to segue together, and surely a segue between tracks is preferable to a gap between the pieces. I like the idea of the music flowing straight from one participant's contribution to the next.
I also used to play that drawing game with each of us drawing on different parts of folded paper! It was always wild to see how it ended up.
Amazing inspiring stuff
As a kid, my family would also do those stick figure Exquisite Corpse drawings, without calling it that. Only when I was in my 20's and reading about Dada did I understand the origins of the idea.
Now that I think on it, if memory serves, it was something my dad would start when we were at a restaurant waiting for food to arrive.
Saw your interview in MusicRadar! It's really interesting hearing you talk about how you came to make music with such unique gear
I enjoyed researching the Acephale society- incredibly interesting
I did something like this for a Metapop challenge. It’s a great idea!
Looking forward!
So it is like " Stille Post" with audio...
I also remember playing the " draw then fold " game with my parents.
There is a new web service that brings the concept to a social media like Setting.
Alas it is a beautiful cooperation idea for almost everything.
Cooperations where everybody has a saying in everything will almost never suceed.
cheers hainbach, you are my favourite berlin hipster =)
It has been said that Eddie Van Halen, composed some of his guitar solos by recording several different solos in his songs and then editing them in any way he liked, so with various pieces of all the solos he had recorded he would make a final solo and later, he learned to paly it. Not exactly the same technique as an exquisite corpse, but quite close and cool.
Wearing the same Shirt at this momen 👍👍
My friends and I used to make mix cd's like this in the aughts. Those were some weird mixes. This album sounds fun.
wow that is stunning. how stoked will the others in the ring be that they are included with HAINBACH!
just got a contact mic today and am in love...
Hainbach & M Geddes Gengras in a single performance! 🖤
I know. I need to listen to that album now. Also, if you haven't already check out his radio show on Dublab: www.dublab.com/djs/m-geddes-gengras
I was a member of a now defunct music related forum and back in early 2000s and we did two 45-60 minute Exquisite Corpse pieces. It would have been three but with the first one we tried to do it as a physical piece being posted to each member in turn with artwork and it got lost in the post somewhere between the US and the UK on it's final leg :( I actually tried to start one again recently on Reddit but no one seemed interested.
was this Soulseek’s One Minute Massacre? If so: contributed to one of those!!
Great patch and piano!
Interesting concept of creating music & wished I had the equipment! Just have GarageBand on my MacBook Pro laptop! 🙂🙂🎵🎵🎧🎧
is there a dedicated pan harmonium video from You? Would love to learn more about this :DD
I purchased the album download based on my enjoyment of this video. I am now somewhat lost for words regarding the wonderful changing musical landscape which is at times very beautiful:)
You ended up with a sound that really reminded me of Radiohead!
"Exquisite Corpse" does sounds like a good band name, though I bet it's already taken.
At least 4 bands have called themselves that.
Hi. Tried to find music theory videos in your playlists but couldn't find any. Do you use music theory and if so, what makes you choose the tones that you do? Haven't watched this one yet, because I'm specifically looking for music theory information. I'm just listening to this performance at König Otto and wondering about how to compose this kind of music - what makes you choose the tones that you do?? ua-cam.com/video/vtb76xXRU5A/v-deo.html
Plenty of time to brew some coffee ☕
what are those headphones?
HEDDphones
This has nothing to do with deathmetal😔
It was pretty good until it was ruined by the piano, which IMHO was totally out of context. 2/5 on this on, I'm afraid.
hmmmmm, i find those previews sooooooooo annoying. is it just me ?
i find then epic so bruh
Was passing Hainbach just yesterday and remembered you.
Very cool subject! We have been doing what we call latency jams for a long time at electro-music.com which incorporates Exquisite Corpse. Basically participants will stream live on their own channel, while one person takes all the streams and mixes them into one. Participants can only hear the final output (and their own). So there is a lot of blind playing in the dark so to speak and the output from the final mix channel has a latency of 10 to 120 seconds. It's often quite surprising how well the mix sounds. Really fun stuff!