Kev Hopper - Assisted Spoombung (prepared bass guitar piece from 1996)

[halido]

awesome!!!

[fryBASS]

John Cage of bass guitar!

[kenrubes]

Kev, I've always thought of you as a weird hybrid of Percy Jones and Tony Levin. You're incredibly innovative. I've been a fan of Stump for decades. Keep up the awesome work.

[spoombung]

@kenrubes Thanks, Ken

[stratboy8]

Just keep ploughing your own furrow, Kev. Love what you do!

[SpaceRitual]

Pretty fascinating stuff. I appreciate the minimalist approach, I think this is one of he more interesting prepared (bass) guitar examples I've heard.

[spoombung]

@SpaceRitual

Thanks.

[plangentmusic]

This is a joke, right?

[spoombung]

@plangentmusic

It's not a joke but 'laughter is prefferable to tears' as John Cage would say.

[jguzzwell]

this is great! some really nice tones and drones, very percussive, I like it alot

[DaveRingle]

I'm in a blues band with rob on drums and fintan on bass,

We have to try and write something stumpy for a laugh!!

[Seizurema]

I dig this quite a bit. Any hints as to how its done?

[jsupe]

Interesting gamelan/gong like sounds happening with the clip(s) but it gets a bit static after a while. The variation comes from the clips as the rhythmic pattern is established very early on.

[spoombung]

Well that's partly the reason why I don't play it anymore. On the Spoombung record there are other musicians joining me like saxphonist, John Butcher and flugel player Iain Smith - and that adds immensley to the tone palette. It's a minimal effect with just myself and the assistant.

[fryBASS]

Wow. I love it.