Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Visa Oscar, captures a performance of Duke Ellington’s In a Sentimental Mood, arranged for ROLI Seaboard Rise 49 + TEControl Breath & Bite Controller & DSI OB-6.
The performance is greatly influenced by Michael Brecker’s EWI arrangement, from Steps Ahead Live in Tokyo ’86.
Amazing!
Well played!!
(Must be cold – cap and a leather jacket indoors??)
Absolutely superb.
This requires serious skill.
I recommend everyone to listen to the album Magnetic by Steps Ahead, there’s some arse kicking synth and sequence work happening there.
Michael Brecker’s EWI playing is out of his world, he was one of the biggest innovators of all time.
Amazing performance. I looked up that breath controller and it rocks! It even detects head motions… Thanks for sharing!
http://www.tecontrol.se/products/usb-midi-breath-bite-controller-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQpSDph_c4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBgJFzHgMQk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwi3u3mhJc
The Rise enables v-e-r-y expressive results… particularly with the Rise2 improved playability (which you might appreciate, but clearly don’t “need”… signed jealous). But a total, 1 size fits all solution is a myth… not only for 1-handed flexibility, but also for making music. The breath controller creates its own expressive opportunity alone, intermixing with Rise capability, or adding to it… as is “right for you” or even “needed by you to express yourself with x-kit. You make this obvious and “natural”… something sorely missed by ROLI demos. (For transparency, I trained on traditional & electronic wind and keyboard instruments… and in engineering; If that imposed bias, then you “made it a bit more fair”.)
I’ve waited many years for your little demo, So THANK YOU!!