[sdiy] Demios and Phobos [was: letting Hubble die]

[Peachey, Dave]

And then, of course, there's the version played by a real drummer - in this
case Jerry Marotta!

Tony Levin's band (including Larry Fast) recorded a studio version of this
track for the recent TLB album "Pieces of the Sun" (the CD booklet for which
contain detailed sleeve notes regarding the band-driven construction of this
piece particularly commenting on the fiendishness of the rhythmic
construction).  They also recorded it live as well as can be found on the
live album "Double Espresso".

You can't get more analogue than that :)

Cheers
Dave

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> Subject:	Re: [sdiy] Demios and Phobos [was: letting Hubble die]
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> 
>  Hi all,
>  Wow! Finally something I can contribute to! :-)
> 
>  On Larry Fast's webpage, he describes how he created the rhythm track on 
> Phobos. It's just a general description that he gave - sample and holds
> and the 
> sequencer synched to the click track from track 8 of the tape
> machine....and 
> lots of tweaking. 
> 
> http://synergy-emusic.com/cords.html
> (scroll to about the middle of the page)
> 
>  You can also hear a clip of the Phobos rhythm part on Amazon.com. The 
> quality is pretty bad though:
> 
>  http://tinyurl.com/3gy9v
> 
>  Andrew Sanchez
> 
> 
> In a message dated 2/19/04 9:40:37 AM Central Standard Time, 
> david.k.cornutt at boeing.com writes:
> 
> > Hey, look, a chance to bring this back on topic!
> >  
> >  From: harrybissell [mailto:harrybissell at prodigy.net]
> >  > 
> >  > H^) harry    (Demios, Phobos... rah rah RAH !!!)
> >  
> >  So, this suddenly reminded me of something: the
> >  Synergy song "Demios and Phobos Go To Mars".
> >  One thing I've always been curious about is how 
> >  that percussion track was generated.  In Larry
> >  Fast's web pages he mentions in passing that it
> >  was a noodle, a self-running patch.  Now, I could
> >  sort of see how one would do a thing like that in
> >  the MIDI world, where you can have a drum machine
> >  or a sampler or something with drum sounds mapped
> >  to key numbers, and something generating some form
> >  of random key numbers (actually it sounds like maybe
> >  a random-walk algorithm, or something else more
> >  complex than just uniform distribution).  I could
> >  even see driving this with an analog control voltage
> >  via a CV->MIDI converter.  
> >  
> >  But how might this have been done in 1975?  Of 
> >  course there was no such thing as MIDI then, and
> >  no such thing as multitimbral machines with sounds
> >  mapped to keys.  The only thing I can think of 
> >  would be maybe something involving one of those
> >  PAiA KIM-1 processors, with maybe a whole bunch
> >  of trigger outputs connected to it and going to
> >  different groupings of modules for the different
> >  sounds.  But Larry sort of implies that it was all 
> >  analog.  Any thoughts?
> >  


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