One man stands in defiance of the TH-cam trolls,frustrating them to the point of posting their valuable "opinions", to which no one cares. Go Henry, smasher of trolls. And jeez i wish i knew this in 1984 when i was trying to learn "its a wonderful life"by ear. Finally i thought " maybe its an effect?" Kool thanks henry
Henry really owns this particular way of using delays. It makes perfect sense to me when he says he uses this type of thing to accompany his scuba diving videos - it is something like the aural equivalent of schools of multicolored fish crisscrossing through one another. Which of course is a phenomenon that does not happen in 4/4 time.
I agree, this is good for otherworldly environments, like deep underwater, or outer space. But that's about all it's good for. And he should avoid the shrill sounds.
I dig HK. His music is not for everyone, but he's doing his own thing and has been successful at it by any objective measure. I find it all (the gear and the music being made with it) fascinating.
What I LOVE about Henry's playing is that he's fearless about playing. Can play inside too, but has the guts to make music without boundaries and formulas. Go HK:)
Hmm, I like this delay, what should i call it? Something simple I guess, like the "Square Wave Modulation of the clock rate of delay times" Yeah I like it, pretty catchy.
What's really interesting is that when listening to it, it definitely might not be what guitarists would find appealing or a good tone, which is fine since Henry is very experimental and goes way beyond the norm of what typical guitar playing is. However, as a modular synth player, his ideas translate perfectly over and I would even encourage synth players (especially modular synth players) to take some ideas from this
wow that reversed-feedback thing is cool...you really hit some unique stride between 8 and 10 minutes....somewhere between chaos and zen and a little quiet country-picking. made my morning...thanks.
shadowofthenighthawk I mean, he's definitely not a "good guitarist", cause his approach is unique and different. But the music he makes is interesting and unconventional. I like it, at least, because I get his point, he's playing in a creative way, not viewing the guitar as a guitar but as an instrument to express himself :)
Henry's great! The guy is creative, and he likes to make music. I saw him once with Richard Thompson, very odd musical sensibilities, but that doesn't make him a crappy guitar player, nor does it make him a crappy musician. I don't understand all the hostility posted here. Some of you need to wipe better in the morning...
MrGratefulheart ok smarty pants here's a challenge for you.. learn one of this guy's "tunes" and pl Ay it at your big family Reunion bbq and see how that goes over .
He's musical, and he seems to understand his niche very well. His ability to control feedback and chaos at times shows an immense capacity to control the instrument. For me, his disregard of time is too obnoxious to listen to.
Imagine a guy with all the enthusiasm, and the skill, of somebody who just touched their first instrument a couple of days ago. Now imagine this person maintaining that exact same level of enthusiasm, and skill, for the last 50 years. This is all he does all day, every day. Imagine the mind of someone who can be that involved in something for that long and just... never progress or improve their ability or taste in any way whatsoever from the day they started.
There's a thin line between cacophony and Kaiser's eccentric "genius" "playing" methods ! Oh no there isn't they are both crap. Give me a break. It's a bit like the saying "Rich people are considered eccentric, poor people are considered mentally ill", this is exactly the same, if I go play this crap on stage, i'll get stoned to death within 30 seconds while screaming "But it's a Henry Kaiser cover song !!!"
Let me bring you a comparisson. A great painter can paint anything he wants, but what makes it art is, what he chooses to paint can be really odd and simple. Same applies to a great guitarplayer. Except you cant tell by the way Henry Kaiser approaches the guitar that he is not a great guitarplayer.
I may have accidentally typed cant instead of can. The point I was trying to make was that Henry Kaiser is the one showing that apron. And for some reason people are still trying to claim that he is some sort of progressive guitar mastermind.
What the hell are you talking about? He is struggling to play the damn thing. He still has those movements kids have on their first week of playing guitar. He never learned how to play it, and is even to this day incapable of that.
Very nice, and such a brilliantly simple effect. Now I am imagining building all sort of things in MaxMSP that could do similar things with a variety of other FX.
just use bitwig... way easier to do complex things like this and once 3.0 hits with the modular system, pretty much all Ableton will have over Bitwig is time signature automation (any actual audio effect related to so could be done some other way easily in bitwig). Part of the amazing thing of bitwig is they give you so many tools that can be used in so many more ways than other DAWs that you can basically figure out how to do anything just using "effects routing" skills, no programming...
Henry is a real pioneer in avant-garde guitar and a very creative mind. His music isn’t for everyone, but then, not everyone can appreciate Ornette Coleman or Meredith Monk. Don’t knock it just because it’s not your kind of music.
Alec dude, what a fucking coincidence, i'm a huge fan of frusciante, specially early works, niandra lades is one of my favorite albums, and that part reminded me a lot of that experimental sound of niandra lades, big genious at such a young age
The question I have everytime I hear him not matter what he plays is, how does he get such a sharp attack, always…. That’s more impressive to me than anything. So much possibility with that range of dynamics naturally available, he can do it on an acoustic too….
Henry's music has always been strange....... As the sound track to an underwater adventure, it works. I like it better than some of the Jazz stuff he's done. He's quite outside the norm.
This is just brilliant guitar work, for my taste it could sound even better introducing more dissonance in the sequences rather than sticking to pentatonics.
Um.... uh.... whew... that was... um.... sounded like crap until that 6:55 adjustment then it all coalesced into a uh... um... whew.... And he invented this did he?
If only he had a rack mounted effect that could proportionally invert total crapness, then this guy would sound like the best guitarist in the world. How much dough has this guy spent on guitars and gear ? and yet he never thought once to get a lesson off someone who can actually play.
Developing a concept that’s been ignored since it’s inception in the late ‘70s is not anything to celebrate. This sounds like some teenager who can’t play messing around with digital effects.
Hew plays guitar for scientific conferences?! I wonde rwhat kind of reactions he gets on those kind of gigs> I remember hearing a sotry about how Robert Fripp did a Soundscapes concert somewhere, one of those free shows in a public place, not like a regular concert venue, and reportedly someone asked his soundman "When does he actually start playing music" or something like that.
@@ethanweeter2732of course he can. This is actually a great take on I’m so glad, old blues tune made famous by Clapton and Cream. Kaiser recorded this in 1988. th-cam.com/video/sgQ2S6ZRzwg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YcoUNJVTod-vcdX4
Kaiser is a great player, but here he is a slave to his efx. It happens. Especially with guitarists. The fact that he is overdriving early digital equipment makes it sound horrible. You can see both lexicons almost pegged in the red. Ooops.
Kids....this is what an abundance of confidence in yourself will get you. If you tell everyone you are good....I guess some start to believe it. I am not buying it though....not for one second.
One man stands in defiance of the TH-cam trolls,frustrating them to the point of posting their valuable "opinions",
to which no one cares. Go Henry, smasher of trolls.
And jeez i wish i knew this in 1984 when i was trying to learn "its a wonderful life"by ear. Finally i thought " maybe its an effect?" Kool thanks henry
Henry really owns this particular way of using delays. It makes perfect sense to me when he says he uses this type of thing to accompany his scuba diving videos - it is something like the aural equivalent of schools of multicolored fish crisscrossing through one another. Which of course is a phenomenon that does not happen in 4/4 time.
Finally, someone with an insightful comment! Someone who "gets" it!
Kat Baloo holy jesus
I agree, this is good for otherworldly environments, like deep underwater, or outer space. But that's about all it's good for. And he should avoid the shrill sounds.
I dig HK. His music is not for everyone, but he's doing his own thing and has been successful at it by any objective measure. I find it all (the gear and the music being made with it) fascinating.
What I LOVE about Henry's playing is that he's fearless about playing. Can play inside too, but has the guts to make music without boundaries and formulas. Go HK:)
Imagine being a guitar, full of dreams, waiting on your instruments store... and then you are bought by henry kaiser.
Or a Dumble amp!
This will translate nicely into synthesizer territory too. Thanks for sharing!!!
Excellent! Huge Henry Kaiser fan, always fun to get some insight into his compositional ideas. Thanks for covering him!
Arnie Wince hahaha id shit on his guitar so that he could never play it again.....doing the world justice one turd at a time hehe
george kotsironis there’s a fine line between being funny and just sounding fucking weird. You have crossed it.
Hmm, I like this delay, what should i call it? Something simple I guess, like the "Square Wave Modulation of the clock rate of delay times" Yeah I like it, pretty catchy.
That made me chuckle
What's really interesting is that when listening to it, it definitely might not be what guitarists would find appealing or a good tone, which is fine since Henry is very experimental and goes way beyond the norm of what typical guitar playing is. However, as a modular synth player, his ideas translate perfectly over and I would even encourage synth players (especially modular synth players) to take some ideas from this
Fascinating. Right on technical description. The end with the footage is beautiful.
beauty is a rare thing
Don't know where i heard/read this - but "Everything that is now considered beautiful was once considered ugly"?
wow that reversed-feedback thing is cool...you really hit some unique stride between 8 and 10 minutes....somewhere between chaos and zen and a little quiet country-picking. made my morning...thanks.
This guy is amazing.
in a bad kind of way
shadowofthenighthawk I mean, he's definitely not a "good guitarist", cause his approach is unique and different. But the music he makes is interesting and unconventional. I like it, at least, because I get his point, he's playing in a creative way, not viewing the guitar as a guitar but as an instrument to express himself :)
@@mariovenk I like expressing myself with an axe and a washing machine. Im genius.
Henry's great! The guy is creative, and he likes to make music. I saw him once with Richard Thompson, very odd musical sensibilities, but that doesn't make him a crappy guitar player, nor does it make him a crappy musician. I don't understand all the hostility posted here. Some of you need to wipe better in the morning...
as a fan primarily of improvised and experimental music for me he really stinks of crappiness
MrGratefulheart ok smarty pants here's a challenge for you.. learn one of this guy's "tunes" and pl
Ay it at your big family
Reunion bbq and see how that goes over .
He's musical, and he seems to understand his niche very well. His ability to control feedback and chaos at times shows an immense capacity to control the instrument. For me, his disregard of time is too obnoxious to listen to.
@@jlo2079 if music could only be judged based on how good it sounds at a family reunion bbq i would probably kill myself
So well said!
I love how enthusiastic he is hahaha
@Mike G damn this was 4 years ago
Nice, thanks Henry.
Thanks for this Henry! I'm playing around with the PSP42 plugin and I can hear plenty of potential for this technique.
If it takes some higher level of understanding music to appreciate this, I don't want to get there.
Lol
Very interesting to discover those possibilities . Tks Henry
The underwater shots with the audio are beautiful :’)
Imagine a guy with all the enthusiasm, and the skill, of somebody who just touched their first instrument a couple of days ago.
Now imagine this person maintaining that exact same level of enthusiasm, and skill, for the last 50 years. This is all he does all day, every day.
Imagine the mind of someone who can be that involved in something for that long and just... never progress or improve their ability or taste in any way whatsoever from the day they started.
I love it when people get upset by something they cannot understand! Dorks
They understand it perfectly, you don't, that's why you fall for this Emperor's New Clothes flim-flam. Everyone else can see straight through it.
There's a thin line between cacophony and Kaiser's eccentric "genius" "playing" methods ! Oh no there isn't they are both crap. Give me a break. It's a bit like the saying "Rich people are considered eccentric, poor people are considered mentally ill", this is exactly the same, if I go play this crap on stage, i'll get stoned to death within 30 seconds while screaming "But it's a Henry Kaiser cover song !!!"
Let me bring you a comparisson. A great painter can paint anything he wants, but what makes it art is, what he chooses to paint can be really odd and simple. Same applies to a great guitarplayer. Except you cant tell by the way Henry Kaiser approaches the guitar that he is not a great guitarplayer.
I may have accidentally typed cant instead of can. The point I was trying to make was that Henry Kaiser is the one showing that apron. And for some reason people are still trying to claim that he is some sort of progressive guitar mastermind.
What the hell are you talking about? He is struggling to play the damn thing. He still has those movements kids have on their first week of playing guitar. He never learned how to play it, and is even to this day incapable of that.
Exquisite, as always.
As exquisite as an ice pick to the forehead
I wish I'd been born with a golden guitar pick in my mouth.
Very nice, and such a brilliantly simple effect. Now I am imagining building all sort of things in MaxMSP that could do similar things with a variety of other FX.
Like most of Henry Kaiser's stuff. It's more noise than music. Especially the first examples. The later examples weren't too bad.
idiot
just use bitwig... way easier to do complex things like this and once 3.0 hits with the modular system, pretty much all Ableton will have over Bitwig is time signature automation (any actual audio effect related to so could be done some other way easily in bitwig).
Part of the amazing thing of bitwig is they give you so many tools that can be used in so many more ways than other DAWs that you can basically figure out how to do anything just using "effects routing" skills, no programming...
Henry is a real pioneer in avant-garde guitar and a very creative mind. His music isn’t for everyone, but then, not everyone can appreciate Ornette Coleman or Meredith Monk. Don’t knock it just because it’s not your kind of music.
gotta admit, the ebow section at around 13:30 sounds cool
Somewhere, trees are crying that their brothers and sisters gave their lives for......this.
Jerry Ward
Yes, they do have taste. Maybe it's YOU who needs his hearing checked. This guy is awful.
Douglas Proce yes, they do have [subjectively] taste. Maybe it’s you that needs their [subjective] hearing checked. This guy is [subjectively] awful.
That certainly got my feet tapping!
THIS GUY IS GOD
free ur mind Arnie
yeah, god awful
This is such a cool space to explore! I want to try this with virtual instruments on my PC. :)
In love with the lexicon and that guitar!
i actually enjoyed 7:30 improv
+macc305 i like it
+Alec +macc305 fuck no!
+macc305 have you heard of niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt?
Alec dude, what a fucking coincidence, i'm a huge fan of frusciante, specially early works, niandra lades is one of my favorite albums, and that part reminded me a lot of that experimental sound of niandra lades, big genious at such a young age
no way you guys actually like this
This guy works for Guitar Player magazine? I'm never buying another issue again!
the final part it's actually pretty good
I think this should titled "the moonlight sonata bowel movement"
more like a poo-ru
Well played
The question I have everytime I hear him not matter what he plays is, how does he get such a sharp attack, always…. That’s more impressive to me than anything. So much possibility with that range of dynamics naturally available, he can do it on an acoustic too….
Amazing. I love what he does.
Master Troll at work
I've heard wind chimes with more rhythm.
+Phlop Alopagus YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know right, that's literally the best burn I've ever heard. It's also a fact LOLOLOL.
+Phlop Alopagus Well it was inspired by the one and only Henry Kaiser.
+Phlop Alopagus I have no strong opinion on this guy, but LOL
😂😂😂😅😂😂🎉
If this isn't beautiful, then neither is mathematics beautiful .
Beautiful and meant to be Messed with !
If people want to bring back the guitar and rock/metal you have to learn something from him
Couldn't the Eventide Eclipse do this as well?
Hello Henry. It's appears that you had a Reverse option or button on the hardware PCM42 or are my ears playing tricks ...?! Thanks
I think the 42 was capable of doing so with a mod
It´s crazy man :-), nice... alien with his guitars
Am I like living in opposite world here?!?!? Everyone saying he is so innovative and really good?!?!???!
Absolutely beautiful.
Similar effect can be achieved with granular synthesis
7:03 - Oops, forgot to hit those two buttons.
Whenever I feel like I suck on guitar, I listen to Henry Kaiser.
Can you make a recommendation?
Henry's music has always been strange....... As the sound track to an underwater adventure, it works. I like it better than some of the Jazz stuff he's done. He's quite outside the norm.
+DeadKoby Idk about an underwater adventure.. sounds more like trying acid for the first time and then drowning while being sucked into a time vortex.
This is just brilliant guitar work, for my taste it could sound even better introducing more dissonance in the sequences rather than sticking to pentatonics.
Mr Spock would approve. Oh and the Flintstones were actually a cartoon! Damn it!
damn... the Kaiser hate reeks strongly here.. (keep your ears open peeps..)
Um.... uh.... whew... that was... um.... sounded like crap until that 6:55 adjustment then it all coalesced into a uh... um... whew....
And he invented this did he?
I'm dying inside.
"~ just intonation!"
I'll stick with dotted eigth thanks :D
This is so old hat Kaiser. I think you're about five years behind the times with guitar effect technology.
Lol he says pretty at 3:57
no shit eh?! "pretty"?! that was my FIRST real belly laugh during this video, and then I started to read the comments!!! 😄 😄 😄
12:30 is very fripp-ish. Something is good but many stuff from this dude sounds sooooo aleatory… maybe he’s a true genius?😅
If only he had a rack mounted effect that could proportionally invert total crapness, then this guy would sound like the best guitarist in the world. How much dough has this guy spent on guitars and gear ? and yet he never thought once to get a lesson off someone who can actually play.
This is basically the Les Paulveriser
Henry Kaiser shows you that you can play through the most expensive gear, and still sound like an amateur with no money.
Are you ok?
I'd like to see you do better, punk!
An amateur could never play like this lol
6:25 rage against the machine
The Emperor's New Clothes.
The poor sound quality is a shame. Wonderful otherwise.
No amount of delay can make this dog shit sound good!
A delay time of about a billion years with no dry signal would be ideal
Developing a concept that’s been ignored since it’s inception in the late ‘70s is not anything to celebrate. This sounds like some teenager who can’t play messing around with digital effects.
Anyone else think this guy sits at home smoking weed all day ro come up with this?
Does this cat know any songs?
Any?
Hew plays guitar for scientific conferences?! I wonde rwhat kind of reactions he gets on those kind of gigs> I remember hearing a sotry about how Robert Fripp did a Soundscapes concert somewhere, one of those free shows in a public place, not like a regular concert venue, and reportedly someone asked his soundman "When does he actually start playing music" or something like that.
is there a delay pedal that can approximate this?
Echolution
Count to Five does this and much more, an amazing pedal
Ct5 is like Henry Kaiser in a (blue) box.
“Dense and pretty”
"I didn't want to sound l
Ike everyone else.. ""yeah dude mission ccomplished.... nobody wants to sound like you...
Is Henry Kaiser the master guitar Troll ?
A Kline with a headstock ?
Until this day those guitars are suffering!
This is when you suck but want it to sound sucky 4-5 times instantaneously.
wow
You would've thought in all that time he spent with guitars somewhere along the line he would've decided to learn to play it.
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I think it's tone deaf.
Indeed
Lil wayne teacher
+Diego Quintero :D :D :D
😂
Less than 5000 hits. Not surprising. He sounds like a three year old kid who just picked up his dad's guitar.
The title of this video should be changed to *"Henry Kaiser's ear torture looping strategies"*
this guy sucks, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt but no, he suvks;
I just wanna know if he can actually play
No, he can do weird noises, but actually play a good piece of music, no.
@@ethanweeter2732of course he can. This is actually a great take on I’m so glad, old blues tune made famous by Clapton and Cream. Kaiser recorded this in 1988. th-cam.com/video/sgQ2S6ZRzwg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YcoUNJVTod-vcdX4
This is a joke right? Please tell me he is joking with us!?
that was cool and terrible at the same time...............
This effects should have a lock preventing people to sound like that. Unbelievable piece of shit.
🤔
you kidding me ?!
Why even bother tuning his guitars?
You Tube sent me to this video from a video about you entitled someting like "the worst guitarist in the world " I wonder what they meant ?
Is this guy for real?
Aye and he owns tons of money that's why he is pro guitarist.
Kaiser is a great player, but here he is a slave to his efx. It happens. Especially with guitarists. The fact that he is overdriving early digital equipment makes it sound horrible. You can see both lexicons almost pegged in the red. Ooops.
I think it's the fact that he SUCKS that makes it sound awful, actually!
no he cant play at all
I think his high e string is a little flat,
Just kidding
Kids....this is what an abundance of confidence in yourself will get you. If you tell everyone you are good....I guess some start to believe it. I am not buying it though....not for one second.
Go listen to some corn dog rocker play Six Days On the Road if you don't care for this.
He talks nearly 20 mins of cr@p-anythingness...