#1

Just wanted to ask if anybody knows how Alva Noto is processing Sakamoto piano sound in the albums they made together :slight_smile:

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#2

It mostly sounds quite simple to me. At a guess, sampling/chopping, bit of granulation, maybe some spectral stuff for drones?

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#3

I’ve always been curious about the mic/amplification setup; does Sakomoto just record and send off the files? Or does he have some live effects happening on the piano.

I love the sound so much that I want to believe it can be created live. But it would be hard to amplify the effects enough to match the piano sound, while also avoiding feedback.

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#4

Same. I’m curious what the live setup is, too.

#5

i’ve read an article long time ago, basically Noto setup is a macbook+motu+max/msp and stop! sometimes a small controller, but basically a huge FFT max patch to analyse sound and make something react to it
i’ll try to find the article

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#6

here the article

http://www.dienststelle.de/2005/10/05/alva-noto-ryuichi-sakamoto-insen-tour-part-1/

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#7

Apparently a lot of custom built hard/software some using MAX for live. He has his own developer/collaborator called Nibo. This is how he describes working with RS.

“One example of this is a live analysing tool that Nibo and I built. It also functions as a sine wave generator. Its purpose is to analyse what Ryuichi plays, in this case, and then it gives me a precise frequency of the decay of the tone. I then have a choice on which sine waves I am going to add, lower or higher. I can do this in my studio, in an offline situation, but it’s not possible to do it live on stage.”

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#8

Thank you for the link to this article! :slight_smile:

#9

Thanks for all the info shared in this post. It’s very interesting to see how different can be making an album and playing it live.

#10

I think you could do quite a bit of the freq analysis and sine generation picking live these days using Max, or Kyma. I don’t think it would need to be an offline process.
AN doesn’t come off particularly well in that blog post…

#11

Nowadays there are fft plugins or instruments that could do the work live