At the beginning of the year I was contacted by a Canadian artist Psudaform who had an idea to do a remix of my track Sumer. Having listened to his music, I agreed immediately, especially because to my knowledge this is the first remix of any of my songs. The result is very cool. The [...]
Author: Kaspar
Sumer
New piece that started with a Stick idea and later a breakbeat. Sumer by Kaspar TORN
Animals as Leaders – David
I've wanted to play something from AaL for quite a while, but it was hard to find a suitable candidate for more than just a few riffs. I remember, I had a try with this piece at the very beginning of my Stick playing, which was over 10 years ago and abondoned it because it [...]
VoxTrot
A song idea that once started with a Japanese vocal synth and an electronic beat.Decade later I arranged it to a complete piece of music. Adding more growly vocal synth parts, the Stick and my other usual stuff. VoxTrot by Kaspar TORN
Opeth “Dirge for November”
This is my version of the excellent ending section of Opeth's "Dirge for November". It's my first attempt at adapting a solo guitar piece for the Stick. Usually I've tried to arrange material with multiple instruments, but with this piece I found that sometimes one is enough. The guitar range fits the Stick nicely, but [...]
Malleus Meloficarum
This track started in the end of spring from polymetric experiments with a synth-sequencer phone app. Then I arranged the main idea for the Stick and began composing the full piece around that. Later the initial synth sounds were replaced for the most part though. At first it seemed that this time the process will [...]
Agregaator Finished!
Last November I released a video of Agregaator intro riffs. After that I've been busy working on the full track. Agregaator started from an idea that I had recorded while experimenting sticking various objects between Stick strings. The main idea is prominent at various places in the piece: among othes, right at the start played [...]
Agregaator Intro Riffs Video
Chapman Stick as an instrument is divided into two sides with different tunings. With this track I'm trying to reunite the sides by freely crossing over from one side of the instrument to the other. The sides are processed separately with identical effect chains, blending cleaner sound with the distorted. This allows to play distorted [...]
New track: Sliced and Prepared
Initially I wasn't even trying to compose, I was just experimenting with preparing the Chapman Stick with various items that I found around the house and could fit under the strings. There were rubber and plastic tubes, springs, cable-ties, sheet metal, magnets, felt etc. Listening to the recordings next day, I felt that some of [...]
Projektorn at Hard Rock Laager 2023
We had a great opportunity to play live at the HRL festival in Vana Vigala. Leading up to the day of the performance, there was a rigorous period of preparation. At Vana Vigala the weather was wonderful, audience enthusiastic and sound excellent.Among the usual setlist was a new track "Delayed Gratification". Photo: Erlend Štaub Photo: [...]