Out Of My Hands, by Chris Harris

Out Of My Hands

by Chris Harris

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1.	Out Of My Hands 04:42	info	buy track
2.	Powerlessness 06:03	info	buy track
3.	Left Swinging 05:38	info	buy track
4.	Autonomy 05:03	info	buy track
5.	Automatic 06:08	info	buy track
6.	Antagonistic 06:01	info	buy track
7.	Abstracted 05:36	info	buy track
8.	Agency 05:22	info	buy track
9.	Frantic 04:04	info	buy track
10.	Indeterminacy 02:48	info	buy track

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To give it its full title, I present to you:
Out Of My Hands, or Stochastic Free Jazz For The Apocalypse.

This is a weird album. I'll just say that up front, so that you know what you're in for. For the past month I've been making music where I've turned over the majority of creative decisions to Max For Live programs running in Ableton Live 11. The chord progressions and melodies (even the drums) arise from a lot of technical jiggery-pokery involving random number generators. I constrain each instrument to play in particular scales or modes, but it's not been me deciding which notes are played, or when.

It's been a liberating experience.

This isn't a new approach. It has a name: aleatoric music (it's a Latin word meaning "depending on the throw of dice") and I've dabbled in the genre before here: my EP 'Generator' used Ableton's follow actions to select between motifs that I'd written, playing them in random order and in random combinations. But this time around, I had absolutely no idea what the instruments would do when I hit record. The results were, quite literally, out of my hands.

What I find REALLY interesting was that when I played along with guitar or synth to a track, what I was hearing and responding to was not what was subsequently played when I rendered out the track to its final WAV file—it couldn't be, because randomness is an inherent part of the recording. As a result, the results have a wonkiness to them that I really like.

Maybe you'll like them too.

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released April 28, 2022

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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