kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:27 am

Bernardo wrote: Sat May 08, 2021 3:37 amA little later this collaboration with my friend Abdala came out, he built a track based on samples of guitars I'd played for a previous record of ours, and on top of that I created and played bass parts and mixed it, I really like it:

I like this one a lot.

penningtron wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 5:18 pm FM Dave N's quote about "keeping some spark of an idea from going out" could apply to this. Might as well keep working on solo material thru the winter, what else is there to fuckin' do..

Bernardo wrote: Sat May 08, 2021 3:37 am Most of the stuff I do now is on one-off situations and / or isolated tracks that it'd be weird to create new topics for, maybe that's the case for more folk here, so this is more or less the "listen to each others' bands" thread for the new PRF, for people who don't have regular projects going.

During the PRF down time a few things I was in came out, first of which was my first ever solo performance, that I did as a vídeo for an online experimental music series, this was it:



I never cared for doing music on my own, it took the pandemic for it to happen, but I enjoyed what came out of it. I tried to come up with a concept that would work with the simple video setup I had at hand (one iPad and its built in mic, one take).

A little later this collaboration with my friend Abdala came out, he built a track based on samples of guitars I'd played for a previous record of ours, and on top of that I created and played bass parts and mixed it, I really like it:



Finally, a couple months back I was part of an improv event in which my instrument was the processing of other player's instruments. I'm on the first set of this video in a duo with drummer Flavio Lazzarin, who adds contact mikes to his drum kit, it's really noisy stuff:



On the same event we had a set of conductor-led collective improvisations with a nine-piece group, it was really hard to respond to the signals, given the nature of what I was doing, but it was an interesting challenge: