Gun Control Live at High Mayhem, Santa Fe

by CK Barlow

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$3 USD or more

1.	Drill 06:56	info	buy track
2.	Cock the Gun 06:31		buy track
3.	Melody (Keep Breathing) 11:24		buy track
4.	Arpeg & Fin 07:35		buy track

about

Everything you hear is a manipulation of a 3-second recording of a gunshot, performed live using a drumKat and a Behringer FCB1010. The drumKat gave me a very physical, often violent way to trigger the sounds, and each section of the piece uses MIDI parameters like velocity to control different things – not just loudness, but pitch, release time, etc.

When I perform this, I do a little stealth "I'm looking over my setup to make sure everything's good to go" fake-out to trigger the opening fade. As it's coming up, I start doing drum corps-style sticking maneuvers, air drumming, getting more and more frenetic and violent as it rises, stopping suddenly with the audio. The album cover gives you some idea what that looks like. The clicks that you hear are my sticks knocking together.

As that opening track, "Drill," gets densest toward about 6:20, I'm beating the living **** out of the poor drumKat.

credits

released March 19, 2020

license

about

CK Barlow Baltimore, Maryland

contact / help

Contact CK Barlow

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like CK Barlow, you may also like:

The Fifth Season (Versions)
by Lafawndah

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 9, 2024
go to album
Ninsei Lane
by Max Dahlhaus

Throbbing dark electronic music that summons visions of forbidding caves and stormy nights. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 27, 2023
go to album
Rhizomes
by Aho Ssan

With guest appearances from clipping., Nicolas Jaar, Angel Bat Dawid & more, “Rhizomes” is a dense experimental masterpiece. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 6, 2023
go to album
Minerals (Versions)
by Hot Rocks

featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 12, 2023
go to album
Away Back In
by Raw Poetic. Feat. Damu the Fudgemunk

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jul 25, 2023
go to album
Lives
by St Celfer™

St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023
go to album
Another Option
by lorenzo bianchi hoesch

Fragmented techno beats and liminal melodies haunt the French composer and sound artist's spacious new album. Bandcamp New & Notable May 31, 2023
go to album