Ideas for School Music Assessment?

[Mr Ed]

remote controls for tellys & what not all make different beeping noises when you hold them in front of guitar pick ups press the buttons.  Analog watches are also good for amplifying with the guitar pickups (sounds cool with lots of reverb).

Oohhhhhh, nice! I might have a fiddle with these ideas later, haha.

[lulusg]

I was reading about this guy Mattias IA Eklundh and he uses amongst other things a dildo, I don't know if it was for slide or to hit the strings....battery charge though!

[38thBeatle]

I would say put a signal through an echo and very heavy reverb and "play" them.You can get some moody stuff going and if you can remove the original signal and just use the repeats and the 'verb then you'll sound like a crazy cat. Also, get some really insane feedback and play around with compression and you can record it onto different tracks with different pitches so that you get these freaky feedback "chords".

[maverickf1jockey]

I was reading about this guy Mattias IA Eklundh and he uses amongst other things a dildo, I don't know if it was for slide or to hit the strings....battery charge though!

It was variable speed so he used it for simple melodies and drones (pickups picked up the sound of the little motor).

[lulusg]

Excellent !! MJ ..

[maverickf1jockey]

More ideas:

Record percussion backwards.
Play the guitar backwards.
Sing it backwards (if you're going to have vocals).
(I like TMV and I've recently gotten into David Lynch's Twin Peaks recently if you couldn't already guess)
Play about with your post-production.
If you have access to tape technology calibrate it incorrectly and then move the heads back to where they ought to be whilst running the tape the other way up.
USE A FLANGER!!!
Add war sounds and edit them into another drum beat.
Use midi to create a beat on a single drum then take the rhythm and change the drumset sound and stagger the tracks (you'll be surprised how danceable this is, especially if you do it multiple times).
Use a Hammond organ or, failing that, a simulation.
Put some slide guitar lead lines on (and play them backwards just for kicks).
Buy yourself a vibrator (a cordless drill will do) and use it up against the pickups/strings.
Take some video footage and, with some creative soldering of a lead, take the video output from the playback and put that into your line in input.
Use the whole-tone scale.
Suddenly swap to a classical piano piece at an inopportune time (Nigel Tufnel is a recommended composer).
Theremin is always fun.
Play a major scale with a raised 4th (Joe Satriani intro here we come).
Finally, lots of intervals such as the major 2nd would do well.

More may be to come.

[Muzzzz]

Play a major scale with a raised 4th (Joe Satriani intro here we come).

aye, 'twould be a Lydian mode of which you speak. and now u mention it, i'll probably use other modes as well, where it wouldnt normally be appropriate. so i'll probably use locrians (2b, 3b, 5b 6b, 7b) and phrygians (2b, 3b, 6b, 7b) as well.

bahaha and yeah i'll just take a dildo to school to record my piece. there are so many great ideas that i just dont know which ones to use! the analog watch/pickups thing is cool, and i'll definately use slide.

thanks for all the ideas, i'll post up my bassline soon!

[maverickf1jockey]

i'll just take a dildo to school to record my piece.

You may just make some new friends while you're at it .

Edit: One of the people on my As course is doing a conversation (The voices being replaced by instruments) using pitched percussion in an electronic notation program (Sibelius 4)), perhaps you could have a go at this.

[JJretroTONEGOD]

one thing you can try is getting someone to swing a mic around 360 degrees, and sing into the mic, then reverse the track, add reverb and bounce it. Reverse it again and add a panner to make it sterio. Another very strange one is if you have an amp with 2 inputs on it such as a fender Deluxe reverb, take the jack lead from your guitar and plug it into the other input, then add guitar pedals to get ultra annoying squeal noises.