Kavin Allenson
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Out of My Body
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Quite by accident I was listening to Chris Vaisvil's time stretched piece on alonetone and had the improvFriday player going at the same time. It was like that chocolate and peanut butter thing, you…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Norbert Oldani Aug 31, 2010.

 

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My normal gig is as an acoustic songwriter/guitarist. I also have an improvised electric guitar experiment with loop pedals, ebow and multi-stage delays, which I call Breaking Light. At this site I hope to explore different methods of music creation and avoid my normal music making processes.

I've put some IF favorites of mine on my Soundcloud page: best of improvFriday 2011 by texastonefreak

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guitar/looping/iPod music apps/found sounds and conversations

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RPM Challenge IF mash album - permission please?

Folks

As I've done for the past four years, I'll be participating again with one or two album projects for the month of February. In addition to those (!) I was thinking of giving improvFriday a presence there as well by doing a mash album, using some material posted here in February.  I wanted to go ahead and get a jump on things, so if you are ok with having a piece (or two?) of yours used, please reply here. I want to include as many people as possible, but I will only use what I…

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Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:01pm — 25 Comments

RPM Challenge 2011!

A crazy fun event I've done the past three years.  Record an album in February, because you can!  Should be no sweat for IF'ers!

 

RPM Challenge

Posted on January 9, 2011 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

On the Edge

Seen this?

 

"In the lack of indigenous music, [the record store is] where [people] find their roots. And in music, whatever you're looking for — whether it's authenticity, or originality, or transcendentalism, or traditionalism — the best place to look is in a record store. But you won't find — or you'll rarely find — mention of improvisation. It's not a term which has become part of the record industry's promotional vocabulary."  -Derek Bailey

 

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Posted on December 17, 2010 at 6:27am — 3 Comments

new Breaking Light internet-only release

"Proto-Sapien" is now available. A few pieces were posted to IF in the past, but most have not and I hope are new (and pleasurable) to your ears.… Continue

Posted on October 4, 2010 at 5:30am

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Kavin Allenson replied to Paul H. Muller's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 24-27, 2012
"Like it! How it starts out "acoustic" then goes all in electronic. Bee's vocal is icing on this strange cake. "
27 minutes ago
Kavin Allenson replied to Paul H. Muller's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 24-27, 2012
"Tonally rich, chaotic too. I like that combo. "
yesterday
Kavin Allenson replied to Paul H. Muller's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 24-27, 2012
"The grand finale from the perf at a local coffee shop last night. BG0525125"
Saturday
Kavin Allenson replied to Paul H. Muller's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 24-27, 2012
"Thanks Paul! I am honored. "
Friday
Kavin Allenson replied to Paul H. Muller's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 24-27, 2012
"Gig rehearsal outtake. Kavin. (Breaking Light) Recollections of Tomorrow"
Friday
Kavin Allenson replied to J.C. Combs's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 17-19, 2012
"Try this again. piece symbol (Samarkand/Chagas/Sundström)"
May 19
Kavin Allenson replied to J.C. Combs's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 17-19, 2012
"Nice journey! "
May 19
Kavin Allenson replied to J.C. Combs's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 17-19, 2012
"Thanks Paulo. Not sure why the link isn't working, I'm only getting a download. I'll have look into it later. "
May 19
Kavin Allenson replied to J.C. Combs's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 17-19, 2012
"Yay! Congrats on the new reso! Is it a National? Sounds nice. "
May 19
Kavin Allenson replied to J.C. Combs's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 17-19, 2012
"Three unrelated pieces but similar in length. ternion1 ternion2 ternion3"
May 18
Kavin Allenson replied to J.C. Combs's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 17-19, 2012
"This is lovely. Wonderful playing. In fact these words don't suffice. "
May 17
Kavin Allenson replied to J.C. Combs's discussion ImprovFriday Event for May 17-19, 2012
"Live looping, acoustic gtr, ebow, DL4 Kavin. (Breaking Light on bandcamp) inverse bipedal degradation "
May 17
Kavin Allenson replied to Jim Goodin's discussion ImprovFriday event for May 10-12, 2012
"Again, a very cool theme, event, posts and mashes everyone. Even though I haven't had a chance to listen to half of it I always catch up the following week. Could the boss please post this on the front page ? It was overlooked I guess, my only…"
May 13
Kavin Allenson replied to Jim Goodin's discussion ImprovFriday event for May 10-12, 2012
"Off theme here. Here's a colab with Tipu Sabzawaar from over at alonetone we just completed. Labeling this NMC because it's his work too and I don't know how he'd feel about it being mashed. Lone Traveller (NMC)"
May 12
Kavin Allenson replied to Jim Goodin's discussion ImprovFriday event for May 10-12, 2012
"Oh I really like the space in this one! Good jobs folks. "
May 11
Kavin Allenson replied to Jim Goodin's discussion ImprovFriday event for May 10-12, 2012
"Hey Glenn, use the direct link that box gives you when You select the share option, so it will show in the player. "
May 11

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At 10:22pm on October 30, 2010, Jeff Duke said…
Thanks Kavin! Yeah I finally got to use old Bundy as I call him! It was a fun show if not all technically perfect , just the way I like em, on the edge of imminent destruction :) Really digging on your music btw, we should Ninjam!!
At 5:52am on July 27, 2010, sandbags said…
Oh I also invited MMI, thought this might be his kind of gig too.
At 5:52am on July 27, 2010, sandbags said…
Thanks for the invite. Looking forward to seeing what comes next!
At 8:56am on July 26, 2010, Matt Stevens said…
thanks loads - amazed about your ebow surviving - speak soon man
At 3:55pm on July 5, 2010, Jeff Duke said…
Good to hear you, nice to have you with us Kavin!
At 9:59pm on June 21, 2010, Steve Layton said…
Nice to have you join on here, Kavin. Enjoy!
 
 
 

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