Fairyland, by Joseph Benzola & Dave Seidel

Fairyland

by Joseph Benzola & Dave Seidel

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I love Joseph's work, which is primarily improvised percussion. Joseph sent me this track about 3.5 years ago when I expressed an interest in collaborating. A collaboration can be challenging, especially when the participants make such different kinds of music. Or maybe they just seem different.... Anyway, after leaving it on the shelf for a while (and feeling guilty about it), I finally came up with an approach a couple of days ago, and here's the result.

All the playing is Joseph's. I took his recording and time-stretched it (using the Paulstretch program) to 10x the original length, and then used the same software to shorten it back into the original length. This produced a result that essentially "smears" the attacks and transients into a series of sustained sounds. Then I combined the stretched-and-shortened track with the original track in Reaper and applied the following plugins: Audio Thing/Hainbach Gong Amp (resonator), Eventide Blackhole (reverb), and Izotope Ozone 9 (mastering).

Please check out Joseph's Bandcamp site, which is full of great stuff: josephbenzola.bandcamp.com.

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released December 30, 2022

Joseph Benzola: acoustic and electronic percussion
Dave Seidel: processing

Image credit: www.hippopx.com/en/snow-falling-winter-weather-snowfall-snowflakes-flakes-trees-165460 (photographer unknown, licensed under CC0)

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Dave Seidel New Hampshire

Microtonal electronic and electroacoustic music. Long tones (mostly), slow paces (usually), and an emphasis on sonority.

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