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North Loop

2017-04-05

Live/studio hybrid composition using hardware-based electronic instruments.

Composer: Mike Olson

Year of Composition: 2016
Instrumentation: Vintage Moog Model 12 modular synthesizer, vintage Minimoog D, contemporary Eurorack and 5U modular synthesizer components, Roland D550, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Tim Kaiser Quad Oscillator, various signal processors.
Type of Electronics: Live

Number of Channels: 2
Duration: 13:46
Video Component: None

Recording

I completed work on this project in the Winter of 2016. It’s a fragment piece, which uses as it’s source material a recording of the live electronic music performance I did at my Six Projects record release party, and also some recordings of the rehearsals for that performance. I deliberately chose to NOT use a computer in this live performance, which was something new for me. I’m calling the piece “North Loop” for several reasons: 1.) The live performance took place in a part of downtown Minneapolis called the North Loop, 2.) though the piece is not particularly loop-intensive, it does make use of some loops, and 3.) I live and work in Minneapolis – a Northern city.

The attached video is of the live performance. The music you’re hearing is the actual finished piece, which was created later in a computer, using audio from the performance and from rehearsals for that performance. There are multiple layers of audio, which have been highly edited and mixed to create the finished product . I edited the video to more or less line things up to match as best I could, but it’s really just an approximation. There was a lot of improvisation involved in the performance, and the finished music actually has more simultaneous layers than I would have been able to pull off live as a solo performance. Still, it’s nice to see the video with the music and I also like that we have some documentation of Paul Christian’s visual projection work. He was using the Processing software environment to create the imagery. I was feeding him about eight separate audio lines that he was working with live.

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