video: G. Wiz
Milestone time: 200,000 video views on YouTube. Damn. To celebrate, here’s a stereo funk nugget for you all. Powered by Rhodes.
Since I have space here to expound, I’ll describe how this was “composed” many years ago.
At that time I was fond of playing with/against sequenced tracks that I also recorded myself. I had a tendency to record my improvisations into the sequencer too since it was just one more button press (as an aside, the machine I did this with had an 8088 processor and 640kB or RAM). So this 16-bar figure was something I recorded as an improvisation, then transcribed. I played it for years on the gig as well, during which time it may have evolved slightly. So fast forward to present, I wanted to record it, so I reversed the entire creation process by constructing a drum track out of someone else’s live playing edited heavily (using Audacity), then recorded my bass and Rhodes parts over the top of it. Somehow this closes the conceptual loop.
Improvisation deconstituted, transcribed, reconstituted as composition, performed live repeatedly, then reinvented as musique concrète = G. Wiz.
