JazzAura Music

Audio Recordings
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20251127, Thu
[ Violin, Piano ]

For around a week long, I have been concentrating more on the violin, as I discovered that it fits well to the saxophone. And now I am supported by a violin accompaniment when I am practising the guitar and the piano. These string sounds, that are created with a bow that has no rosin put on, literally keep me above water. Not long ago, a dampened violin made much of the race, which had to do with a unique sound. With this situation, here, I hope that I am not so much depending on sound, otherwise there would need to be something else as support.

20251121, Fri
[ Violin, Saxophone ]

Not every instrument fits with some other well together in my music. With the digital saxophone, I focused on the piano, but probably there is too much piano music in my ears. Today, I discovered that the violin and the saxophone fit well together, and immediately a spontaneous recording came into being. While recording, I noticed that it is not so easy, but I think that it just has to be practiced.

20251114, Fri
[ Electric Guitar, Preamp ]

It turned out that “direct monitoring” via wired earbuds is the best way to listen to my music-making. Thanks to nice equipment that accumulated over the years, I can make two recordings of a session. Here, the guitar was recorded over a professional studio preamp, but I listened with a microphone that picked up the electric guitar acoustically and a small monitor in lower volume. When I listen now to this recording, I see that quality by the bass, for example, but this typical sound does not stay in my ears, where it would be a sign for good sound for me. For my audience, it’s not required to have a sound that stays in the ears, I think. They don’t fall down when the sound is bad. Actually, it’s the better sound for them, because to them it is more action and power to hear over the pickups of the guitar.

20251107, Fri
[ Electric Guitar, Mic ]

At the moment, I am experimenting with a new recording technique. It’s not that I try to capture the music as one absolutely hears it, I just record the room acoustics via a microphone that is not directly placed at the instrument. To flatten the loud and sharp sounds of the guitar, the monitor is directed away from the microphone and the instrument is not recorded by the pickups. So, I play the guitar over the monitor and the microphone is in a certain distance in front of the instrument. That’s the way I am practicing also. The tunes and chords stay centrally in the ears, listening over wired earbuds that give me the actual recording. That’s when it’s good music, producing a good mood.

20251015, Wed
[ Digital Saxophone, Effect ]

The two digital saxophones in my possession have been effective, therapeutic companions in my life as a schizophrenic musician in the last months. So far, there were ups and downs, and the techniques came and went. Probably now only, I reached a way of playing that is lasting also. Otherwise, it simply develops further, until a suitable technique has been found. The recording shows a coffee session of today, which is an exception, because I am actually drinking green tea. It’s an effect that creates a frightening soundscape and environment. But I particularly liked to play with it, and decided to make a recording.

20251001, Wed
[ Piano, Saxophone ]

The digital saxophone in my possession has been an instrument of great help in the past ten months, and, by playing regularly, my physical condition improved. A good condition means but on the other hand that the saxophone isn’t so effective against low moods anymore. Playing over the piano recording is not so easy with this instrument because it is very sharp to play. There are no excuses, to say. A sharp playability will for sure make this music extreme, once I can play much better. This digital saxophone is very important for me therapeutically.

20250827, Wed
[ Cymbal, Phaser E.Piano ]

In the past, I used to make recordings often and regularly, also overdub-recordings. At the moment, but, no recordings at all come into being, and I enjoy the circumstance to just play the instruments. Here, on this page, JazzAura presents special music rather. There haven’t been publications for some time, so now I give my audience some track from 2023, in which a ride cymbal functions as accompaniment. The second instrument, a phaser voice of my former stage piano, leads a chromatic melody over the cymbal accompaniment. Old recordings of mine have a certain magic. It’s first a different rhythm, if only slightly, but also some that is discernable, and then the tunes have other patterns. Maybe, I should work with my old music.

20250522, Thu
[ Piano, Guitar ]

With this finger-style technique on the guitar, the atmosphere is very unique. It developed into rolling melodies, because chords cannot be that progressive. The piano accompaniment is an improvisation as well, and it is newly equalized to have more bass, but still some highs, as piano sound in the recording. By this sound, listening to this music stays in the ears, and does not fall down in the breast region, where it would there be a sign of bad sound. It looks as if there are particular moments in a day where playing the guitar suits best. This finding is but still unfounded. Probably, I need a particular instrument for a certain occasion.

20250427, Sun
[ Drums, Saxophone ]

The two digital saxophones that I am playing are not perfect. This type of instrument has to be developed still. One sees it clearly on the amount of vibrato voices. Some without vibrato produce unwanted side noises, which is similar to a vibrato. And exactly that started to bother me. But when one plays in low volume, one does not hear these side noises, and in an overdub recording, like this one, the low volume of the saxophone makes the landscape that is produced more pleasant, I think. Here, I play to three cymbals, a hi-hat, and a snare drum.

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