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Topic: Mike Perlowins Soundcloud page! |
Greg Wisecup
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 5:27 am |
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I listened to Mike Perlowin's Capriccio-Espagnol. http://soundcloud.com/mike-perlowin
I am not trained in music theory, nor formally educated in music, nor do I tend to venture out of my comfort zone of traditional country music. All that being said, I gotta tell ya; I really enjoyed that piece! I don't know anything about it but it was like I was listening to a musical score to a play or something. Please forgive my ignorance to what it was written for, but the bottom line was, it was great! Please feel free to straighten me out Mike if I'm way off base........... but I still liked it anyway!
http://soundcloud.com/mike-perlowin
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Mike Perlowin
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 11:07 am
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Thanks Greg. That's a pretty good guess. The piece is the soundtrack to a ballet. I chose to do it because think it is the single happiest, most joyful piece I've ever heard. It's a real celebration of life. Especially the last part. It makes me smile every time I hear it, regardless of whether it's my version or one of the many orchestral recordings.
Some technical information: There are no keyboards or horns or MIDI instruments anywhere on the recording, (or the entire CD for that matter.) The trumpet sounds were accomplished by recording each note separately, with the tape deck running at at 30 inches per second. I then slowed the tape down to 15, and played back each track through a heavily equalized distortion unit, and recorded these tracks on a separate tape (synchronized to the first one,) and then played them back at 30, and mixed distorted and undistorted tracks together. The original pitches of the notes remained the same, and I didn't get any "chipmonk" effect, but the rate of the distortion was doubled, and you can hear the result.
This is me in my "mad scientist running amock in a recording studio" mode. I have been asked how could I duplicate this on stage. The answer is that I can't, and I'm not even going to try. This is not a recording of a performance, the recording is the performance.
I hope the rest of you who check it out like it as much as Greg does.
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Pete Conklin
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Austin, TX
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 11:45 am
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| I agree Greg. Mike's playing and choices are knock your socks off, fantastic! |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 11:59 am
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I could swear that I hear mandolins, 12string- guitars, a harpsichord
and what else. Great!
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Jim Palenscar
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Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 6:28 pm
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| Mike- you have done an amazing job- out hats are off to you! |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 7:26 pm
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| Joachim Kettner wrote: |
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I could swear that I hear mandolins, 12string- guitars, a harpsichord
and what else. Great! |
Joachim, I think you mean autoharp,(I copped a lesson from Mother Maybelle Carter herself, back when I was a teenager,) rather than harpsichord. I don;t play any keyboard instruments.
But yes, there are 6 and 12 string guitars, fretted and fretless basses, mandolins, an autoharp and anything else I could get my hands on, on the recording.
There is no Dobro. I used a Match-bro to get the dobro sound.
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 8:15 pm
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| Piano? |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 8:39 pm
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Jim, I don't piano or keyboards. The piano sound was done on a combination of the steel and the computer. I played each note once on the steel, without working any pedals or moving the bar. Than using the computer, I shaped the decay of each note to simulate the way a piano decays, and then copied and pasted each one into the appropriate place. (Another example of the mad-scientist-running-amok-in-a-recording-studio syndrome.)
I like talking about all this technical stuff. But the bottom line is that this music is something for people to enjoy on a gut level, without trying to figure out how it was done. The way to hear it is to go to the page, turn the speakers up loud, buckle up your seat belts, close your eyes and sit back and enjoy the ride.
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Jim Palenscar
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Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 10:36 pm
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| Holy Technocomplicato Batman! |
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Wally Moyers
From:
Lubbock, Texas
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Posted 1 Dec 2012 6:53 am
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| Great work Mike! |
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Dean Parks
From:
Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2012 3:03 pm
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Mike, great work. Do you work from mini scores, or do you buy a full orchestral version with individual parts, or work from piano reductions, or is this a trade secret?
-dean- |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 1 Dec 2012 3:46 pm
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Dean, in this case, I worked from the orchestral score.
At other times I've worked from orchestral scores, piano reductions, and sometimes both. The orchestral scores give me ideas as to which instruments and sounds to use, and the piano reductions make it easier for me to see the harmonies, without re-transposing all the transposed instruments back into concert pitch.
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