new record in a water tank

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mbarbier
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by mbarbier »

Hey y'all!

Bit slow in sharing this, but just wanted to share this new record I'd put out: [url]https://sofamusic.bandcamp.com/album/threads

recorded it at the Tank Center for Sonic Arts in Rangley, Colorado in late 2020 (spent a lot of lock down at my mom in law's farm not too far away). It's a seven story water tank that was brought over the Rockies and then abandoned when they realized they hadn't poured a foundation for it...which is a very strange thing to forget. But it got turned into a recording studio a few years back. 20+ second reverb.

It's a record of my own stuff for trombone and euphonium, kind of a mix of somewhat written out and improvised. Did a second one a few months later that's trombone and bagpipes that will hopefully be out in a few months.

The bandcamp just has a few track for preview, but the whole thing can be heard here: [url]<LINK_TEXT text="https://soundcloud.com/mattiebarbier/se ... al_sharing">https://soundcloud.com/mattiebarbier/sets/tank-tracks/s-AinRt3CsuZ2?si=4070be3b97924bf3ade6f5ba168bba64&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing</LINK_TEXT>

Obviously all pretty inspired by getting Stuart Dempster records as a teenager!
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robcat2075
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by robcat2075 »

Impressive sound!
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mbarbier
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by mbarbier »

Its an incredible space- the way sound goes on was just amazing
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brumpone
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by brumpone »

Fantastic! Is it only the euphonium that was prepared, or the trombone too? And what's the brass equivalent of rubber and screws between the strings?
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mbarbier
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by mbarbier »

[quote="brumpone"]Fantastic! Is it only the euphonium that was prepared, or the trombone too? And what's the brass equivalent of rubber and screws between the strings?[/quote]

Thank you so much! Just the euphonium on tracks 1 and 4, the rest is just playing though I used a mel-o-wah on track 2.

The current equivalent of rubber and screws is mostly an old mouthpiece I machined to thread a tenor sax mp into...so sadly have no strings to prepare, was able to channel a bit of the hardware store still <EMOJI seq="1f602" tseq="1f602">😂</EMOJI><EMOJI seq="1f602" tseq="1f602">😂</EMOJI>