Prepared guitar and computer: Density Trajectory Study II by Nick Didkovsky

[loganarchermusic]

Madness...

[alexiteric]

nice work.  the software sounds and responds great, not as sterile as some i've heard. quite organic actually.

[GuitarJunkyXL]

This is the most horrorfying thing that i've ever heard but its so impressive and poetic in too...awesome !!! ;)

[heroinisforlosers]

Very Cool =)

[espalexi666]

What have i just watched?

[PPRC4]

"Music with a poetic noise."

[dylantheworm808]

so rad

[dhaeze]

is this the stuff that buckethead does on his albums?

[Nick5379]

This sounds so damn good. I wish I could think of a good compliment, but I'm a little lost right now.

[mattdd05]

This sounds like an orchestra for a horror movie

[NevermindVzla]

screw it ! This is not music.. it's noise ! yeah it's cool for a horror movie thought ;) I just learned how to make creepy background music for my movie xD

[fifthindependent]

Sounds like some Silent Hill type stuff.  Pretty cool.

[sborges433]

This is the drone from Hell! Absolutely Amazing!!!!

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

Reminds me of Lustmord.

[doctornerve]

@DeadWhiteButterflies Checking out Lustmord right now...

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

@doctornerve

Oh of course, by all means do. Stunning stuff :)

[FRSyndicate2]

@DeadWhiteButterflies It sounds a lot like it.

[sezione1992L]

Fool genius

[andresferran]

thank you so much!

[andresferran]

What is the name of those clips?

[doctornerve]

@andresferran alligator clips

[sillychops]

that is pure madness

your lesson vids have done so much for me too ,very glad i stumbled on to your channel... keep em coming man

[bboyserga]

amazing!!

here i was just spending hours learning Tony Iommy's solos thanks to your great videos and tabs, when i decided to look at your other posts...

really great stuff...it's what we'll hear in the deepest of horrors

[ekku1979]

Now I remember what this reminds me of! This would be something that you would hear when Sadako comes to get you

[dkinsight138]

very intense innovative stuff im impressed..

[57458701]

hey men

the name

for this program???

[doctornerve]

@57458701, I wrote the software in Java, using JMSL and JSyn

[boingtube]

Great Piece !!

[JERRYR708]

Soo many ways to experiment with guitar and sound. It will never be completely discovered.

5/5

[rubiconuk1981]

Sounds like an early Tangerine Dream album (infact, the sounds are indentical!) I'd pay good money to be shown how to do that!!

[Testify2000]

This Is Amazing. I Would Really like to know more about this field of music.

[Cuandoeslachupa]

listen to pink floyd ;)

[hanearlpark]

Im intrigued how carefully you position the clips on the strings (is preparing a guitar a science, art or magic?). I tend to be a little more haphazard and adjust as I play.

[doctornerve]

@hanearlpark Thanks - I like to put them on nodes

[hanearlpark]

@doctornerve I get that.

Although its sometimes fun to put the clips on arbitrarily and discover, through playing, which fret positions you're getting the slip to coincide with a node.

[doctornerve]

@hanearlpark yeah!

[JayDeeSG]

Reminds me of the aliens communicating in the movie "Signs"...

[MasterLucas92]

That sounds scary... haha great stuff!

[sk8erriot]

Its ALIVE!

[hungrysparrow]

Very cool- sounded like I was listening in on a planet of giant ancient robots.

[aaronilai]

cool, and yeah how is exactly this setup?, amazing sounds!

[lodude5]

@aaronilai i belive he is using the clip things to create natural harmonics, but i could be wrong there

[doctornerve]

Yeah the alligator clips add all sorts of wonderful bell-like harmonics to the strings. A technique I learned from Bill Horvitz who got iit from Fred Frith who got iit from John Cage who probably got it from the I Ching or something...

[doctornerve]

Thanks! The guitar is going into a Line6 Pod, the output of that is going into my computer (via Metric Halo audio interface), which is feeding my software.

I just added a bunch of explanatory text in to the More Info above which goes into probably too much detail about the rest of it!

[xinaesthetic]

Nice! So what kind of audio processing, if any, is going on apart from analysis / playback of material by JSyn and distortion etc from the Pod? It sounds very rich...

Definitely inspiring me to sort out the electronics in my guitar and get hold of some alligator clips.

[doctornerve]

@xinaesthetic It's straightforward audio playback at different rates. Each virtual player plays back within a certain range of rates, so there's one low voice, a medium low voice, and a voice that plays back higher/faster than real-time. I kept it within believable range so you don't hear munchkins on the high end and grain growling on the bottom end. I'm glad you think they mix nicely, thanks

[ekku1979]

You can get some really HAUNTING sounds with that setup. Plays with ones imagination....Just brilliant

[Jartny]

This is REALLY cool stuff, I love having these kind of sounds behind the mix, how exactly are you doing this?