OK, here's a look into track 2 of the improv stuffs from the South Wales gig.
It starts with a sound very familiar to those of you who've been listening to my music for a while - an eBow on the harmonic setting, playing a sound with a huge chorus sweep on it and a long delay + lots of reverb.
I loop a couple of long held notes with that, and then start playing around with the 'quantised replace' function in the Looperlative, which as I've got it set at the moment, replaces 1/98th (I think) of the audio in the loop - or in the case of one of the buttons I was using, 3 alternate 1/98ths of the loop. The other buttons replaces 2 alternate bits and pitch shifts the replaced bits.Hence the weird unfolding bleepy rhythmic stuff that begins to emerge.
In order to pull the bleepy stuff into a more regular rhythm, I used the 'bounce' function, which records whatever's playing on the selected channels along with whatever's being played into the Looperlative, to record the auto-wah part and the bleeps onto a new channel, which cropped the bleep track to the same length as the wah, and gave it a more steady rhythm.
The melody improv started out as a series of descending 6th intervals, which became the tune when it came back round and was looped before the second big EBow line came in (with the regenerating delay on it), along with the original bleep track (which was muted when it bounced to the wah track) - followed by distorted lead line, with a sound that is pitched up an octave, and has a pedal wah on it. The 6th interval theme comes back again...
A little fragment of the lead sound is looped, so I can switch back to the auto-wah sound for the fade out... the chord that sounds like that chord from 'Venus' by Bananarama - that's alternating Bmin and the open harmonics where those notes are, I think... (will check if anyone's particularly interested) - I started playing that little pattern in the intro to the whole gig, and at that moment, thought it might work... :)
So here it is - enjoy: