Playing around with loops a bit more. I like it, although I feel that perhaps its a bit cluttered at time? Please let me know what you think.
To answer some of the questions I got on the last track:
The looper I use is a Digitech DL-8 Hardwire…
Part V of a fully improvised ep. Available for purchase at bandcamp.
http://maxsipowicz.bandcamp.com/album/the-winter-in-our-hearts
By buying you will also get a $5 discount on the price of the LP I am working on once it comes out.
This is the first of two demo's I made to consolidate my ideas about an album that I am working on for the Clinical Archives netlabel. The piece is fully improvised.
I am recording two albums for Clinical Archives, the first is to be released…
This is the first of two demo's I made to consolidate my ideas about an album that I am working on for the Clinical Archives netlabel. The piece is fully improvised.
I am recording two albums for Clinical Archives, the first is to be released…
This is the first of two demo's I made to consolidate my ideas about an album that I am working on for the Clinical Archives netlabel. The piece is fully improvised.
I am recording two albums for Clinical Archives, the first is to be released…
This time I tried something else. It's definitely more jazzy than anything before. I think its a direction in which I'd like to keep going.
I hope you like it!
Frustrated with how slow my solo acoustic/vocal songs are going, I decided to spend the weekend making something chilled out, just to relax myself and to let people know I haven't died.
Its a short instrumental track. I call this minimalist electronica…
This track hasnt started off sounding anything like this. I had a drum beat in my head, so I keyed it into my laptop, then edited it around and it ended up like this.
then i recorded everything, and just as i was about to save it.. EVERYTHING…
Its a song that was inspired by a dream I had. In fact.. it was the soundtrack to the dream. The ending is purposely left with a feeling of being not finished, as I can't remember how the dream ended.
I hope you all like it :)
This time I tried something else. It's definitely more jazzy than anything before. I think its a direction in which I'd like to keep going.
I hope you like it!
A second of a series of weekly improvisations. I didn't use any effects this time, it's just the guitar.
I hope you like it!
Please download this track at bandcamp for just $1! :)
http://maxsipowicz.bandcamp.com/track/improv-ii
A short improv piece. I'm starting a new project, where I will post at least one improv video/recording online each week, and at the end of each month collate them into an album.
This is the first one. Since July is almost over, I figure I…
geez,that one guest comment makes me some upset, nah, probably just some crab armed masturbator who listens to britney spears, for nuance. well, I really liked this song, if I may make a suggestion, put improv in the description and give it a creative title instead. oh yah, and f' the naysayers with a wacky noodle.
A short improv piece. I'm starting a new project, where I will post at least one improv video/recording online each week, and at the end of each month collate them into an album.
This is the first one. Since July is almost over, I figure I…
A short improv piece. I'm starting a new project, where I will post at least one improv video/recording online each week, and at the end of each month collate them into an album.
This is the first one. Since July is almost over, I figure I…
Just playing around with my looper again. You can probably tell I love that thing.
I wanted to build up the tension and the harmony using overlapping layers of notes with basically the same rhythm.. so that the whole piece builds up and up and…
thanks guys :) @jarvis, I agree.. I think I may have waited a bit long with the alternate theme.
Although, I believe that the constant variation in the harmony and rhythm can justify the lack of variation in the theme, because the interest of the listener would be held by the variation in the harmony and rhythm. Much like Reich's Music for 18 musicians.
Improvisation on Gon-Bops congas, while thinking of future days gone by.
4/4 180bpm.
LYRICS
A cool wind brings the fall
And the season starts to change.
Outside the sky's steel grey.
Inside my heart is too.
And I don't know how to…
very nice track, however, im not sure about its length. It started getting a bit stale around the 3 minute mark.
I think the voices other than the main one should be a bit more visible, that way you would be much more able to control the dynamics and counterpoint of the melody.
Overall however, I very much enjoyed it :)
just finished this one, represents a slightly new direction i am taking i think.
i am particuarly proud of the polyrhythmic sound i achieved. i was worried it mite become too cluttered (at the beginning) but i think i achieved clarity.
*totally rough
absolutely no clue what to do with this. i figured if i released it, maybe it would garner some good ideas of how to continue the song and also just force me to have it on my mind in an attempt to motivate me to finish it.
This song was inspired by the heavy rains of the past two days, and my wife and I biding our time waiting for them to subside a bit so we could leave the house. The guitar is my old Alvarez classical with a microphone, then run through my RP350…
Welcome to the Beauty and Truth Lab. Describe what you want more than anything else.
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which…
Straight ahead stone city electric blues for an old friend who used to spend hours spinning BB King and Mike Bloomfield records for me. Recorded back sometime at the end of 2006 on old analog equipment
I recently bought the Imperfect Samples [Braunschweig Upright](http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/samples/braunschweig/braunschweiguprightpiano.php) (Pro) sampled piano for Kontakt after falling in love with the sound of the demos.
I have…
I recently bought the Imperfect Samples [Braunschweig Upright](http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/samples/braunschweig/braunschweiguprightpiano.php) (Pro) sampled piano for Kontakt after falling in love with the sound of the demos.
I have…
I tried to utilize the swelling of sound that can be created with a guitar to re-create the atmosphere around me (its been rainy all day, with some thunder in the background). This piece is semi improvisational, in that none of it was planned…
Comments on Max Sipowicz's stuff
kirklynch
I'm fascinated with what you did with the background percussion here. Shifted??
Nice improvs. Hope you come back soon.
Very interesting sounds! Nice!
Those are beautiful Chords! Ever listen to Underworld or Vangellis?
Nice Soundscape! Very cool!
most excellent sir!! most excellent!
Not bad mate, like it.
nice bass line to start with, everything fits tightly well.
Interesting choice for the last piece... a bit of a wake up following the chill out of the previous songs. Dig the drums. Another top track.
I agree with Kirk regarding note choices. Quite jazzy. Well done!
More groovy bass! These pieces go very well together, a very nice EP you've put together here.
A nice moody piece.
Good stuff. Dig that bass.
I dig this.
I like it - very gentle.
huh, we might be related. J/K but your sound is kin to me.
geez,that one guest comment makes me some upset, nah, probably just some crab armed masturbator who listens to britney spears, for nuance. well, I really liked this song, if I may make a suggestion, put improv in the description and give it a creative title instead. oh yah, and f' the naysayers with a wacky noodle.
Nice! Enjoyed that!
interesting ! What is your set up? It sounds as if you were recorded in a hall.
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pretty cool. i like the overall aura of the piece. beautifully done!
I like your stuff. A lot. What's your setup?
oh man. i love this tune. john downland is a champ, and this is a great rendition.
thanks guys :) @jarvis, I agree.. I think I may have waited a bit long with the alternate theme. Although, I believe that the constant variation in the harmony and rhythm can justify the lack of variation in the theme, because the interest of the listener would be held by the variation in the harmony and rhythm. Much like Reich's Music for 18 musicians.
i like your guitar sound.
i enjoy your work sir. very much so.
fantastic track.
very nice track, however, im not sure about its length. It started getting a bit stale around the 3 minute mark. I think the voices other than the main one should be a bit more visible, that way you would be much more able to control the dynamics and counterpoint of the melody. Overall however, I very much enjoyed it :)
brilliant.
really awesome track. thoroughly enjoyed the vocal part.
great voice. amazing :) i hope you upload more soon :)
love it. from the first to the last note :)
beautiful.
beautiful work kirk.
i liked it. good job :)
very tasteful tune. i like it.
good stuff kirk. just what i needed tonight. im loving the tone on your guitar.
by all week, i just realized, i mean all of last week. and this week so far :P seeing as its only tuesday.
very nice. love it. ive been listening to glass' piano work almost non stop all week.
@synaptic disturbance - it was a volume pedal in the beginning, but later in the tune i believe i used a reverse delay.