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Is It Noise?

Jazzonicity features Marcus Bronson on bass, electric guitar, percussion, voice, and recording genius.

This one was recorded a few weeks after the Multicompliexifusionicity recording technique was first stumbled upon. We used both four tracks and a total of two microphones on each instrument. You can hear some of the tape speed manipulations (those are the moments when things sound a little out of tune!). It has taken me literaly weeks and months to snip it down to an acceptable size and fidelity. The limitations are these: It had to be in mono, is lacking some of the vibrancy Marcus' bass usually has, and is only half the real size of the entire selection; it still sounds allright to me!
I think you'll find this tune to be the most palatable and least abstract of the three.

ConFusion
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This was the first piece we recorded using Multicomplexifusionicty. It is by far the most chaotic of the bunch. This is how I remember it.
For ConFusion, I think we recorded both of us playing guitars. Each machine had two tracks dedicated to one of the guitars. One track would be of a close-up mic, and the other an area mic. Track 3 on each machine was dedicated to the other guitar. Then we overdubbed a percussion track, on one of the machines only, which features the standard kitchen kit: pots and pans, mixing bowls (some with water that you can hear sloshing around), a five gallon water bottle and assorted percussion toys.
Finally, we over dubbed yet another ambient track on the remaining track on the the first tape. That one is not on this mix*.
The mixdown procedure involved playing both tapes back simultaneously and adjusting their speeds to achieve synchronization and various effects, such as delay and flanging.
We called this recording procedure MultiComplexiFusionicity, since we were rather confused, countless pots of coffee later, as to where exactly anything was on the master tapes.
This is only half the original selection.

I removed this one. If you really want to hear it, though... You know what to do!

HiroHito
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On the very beautiful kitchen-percussion-kit selection from that same first session, HeroHito, I believe we used less microphones and tracks, but we still used both machines, to allow us the liberty of manipulating their speeds. This is almost the entire selection, in stereo. It sounds a little dead in RealAudio.

A Technofile Apology

Neither ConFusion or HiroHito have had any noise reduction, and were sadly encoded at a really low fidelity. An MP3 file of these pieces, while sounding much better, would be quite large. If you find them completley intolerabale, have any suggestion, or would actully like to hear them improved, I would like to know, so that I can make your listening pleasure that much better in the future!

*We mixed down these sessions immediatley, and we treated the mixdown process as a performance. Since each mixdown was a complex procedure, each mixdown is unique, and the chances of these tunes ever being mixed again is slim. The mixdown that has the ambient track on it skimps a little on the percussion, so it's staying in the can.

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