SPRING EQUATIONS

MetaQuorum’s new album, WITCHCRAFT JAZZ, is filling up! We now have 7 tracks mixed and mastered, with another three or four in the pipeline.

Crimson Dreams

Track 6, Crimson Dreams, came together pretty quickly, despite Koos and Dmitry getting into the nitty gritty of polyrhythmic sequences.
And it’s one of Carol’s personal favourites.

Mathematics and Music

Track 7 is The Limping Mathematician – forget about polyrhythmic sequences: ‘It’s based on the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, by George Russell, but this one’s gone crazy!” as Dmitry puts it. So much so that we even had to call in an Advanced Maths student to whip up an equation for calculating volume distribution through multi-track instrument groups. Here it is!!

Cheers, Suzanne Lees!

And back to the music – Koos recorded what he describes as a ‘monster drum break’ using his new NI Studio Drummer plug-in.

Victor Mikheyev sent us a spacey bass-line recorded in his apartment by the Black Sea in Varna, Bulgaria.

Dmitry used his new Komplete Kontrol S61 keyboard and soft to record a rhythm clavinet for the track.

The new Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 is a truly versatile combination of a top-notch keyboard midi-controller and an amazing collection of software instruments, both synths and sampled. While checking the soundbanks and tweaking the various parameters of the instrument, Dmitry spontaneously played this short piece. Fortunately, Carol was nearby and filmed it or it would have been lost because Cubase wasn’t on 😉

Making Waves in Kathmandu

If you happen to be in Nepal, be sure to drop by the New Orleans Caffe in Thamel. It plays a very cool selection of jazz, blues, funk and prog and its playlist now includes the full MetaQuorum collection.