Saxophone and Electronics: Carl Raven
In January 2021 I was awarded an Arts Council of England grant to explore and develop saxophone improvisation with electronics, and to create a natural way of improvising music combining saxophone with electronic sound. The project lasts 10 months culminating in a concert. To help me I have enlisted John Butcher, Mauricio Pauly and Matt Wright. I have devoted 1 day a week entirely to the project. I'm entering the project as an electronic music novice. Here is a log of my discoveries and actions each week. 15th January 2021 Day 1: I contacted John Butcher and Mauricio Pauly . They're both happy to join me on my journey. A zoom with John is organised very soon! Today I went through the Ableton tutorials in the software, and also the max for live effects building videos. I built a simple delay and reverb. The main idea was to attach my Behringer FCB1010 to the PC via MIDI and get the foot switches to control various features in Live. After a YouTube video in programming the FCB1...