About
The OO-Ray is the alias of Ted Laderas, an improvisatory and experimental cellist from Portland, OR. A scientist of biologic systems by day, he extends his experimental attitude to exploring the outer possibilities of the cello, often distorting, looping, or pitchshifting his instrument beyond recognizability into waves of reverberation and extended drones. Inspired by the gauzy textures of My Bloody Valentine, he call his style “shoegazer cello” or “chamber drone”. His music explores the realms of electroacoustic, shoegazer, and ambient.
Lovely use of musical space to highlight the field recording - I can never play that slow. ;)
@J Butler: Thanks, Jonny!
@AllDaySleep: Thank you!
@loalue: Thank you!
@:¬l: Thanks!
@Valiska: Thank you!
@benjamindauer: Thanks, Ben! Better to burn out than fade away (although I'm sure true drone artists think the opposite)
@xyzr_kx: Thanks!
Lovely, Ben!
@stephenvitiello: Thanks! My field recordings are never long enough!
Great mix of atmospheric field recording and musical track - spooky track for a spooky night.
@Le Berger: Thanks, Sam!
@SIGHUP: Thanks! I've only seen Henry Fool, but I think I get what you mean.
Great build up through here
@widesky: Thanks, Seth!
love the scratchy texture here, a nice contrast to everything else
Very ominous, great build of tension
@cpmcdill: Thanks!
@:¬l: Glad you like it! This was probably the third pass at recording it.
@AllDaySleep: Thanks!
@Valiska: Thank you!
@Another Neglected Hobby: Thanks!
@cinchel: No filtering - I am using tape based delays that play back one octave higher and lower, fed into grain delays.
Tension really ratchets up here...nice
lovely spooky effect here...very forbidden planet
It was all we could do to get audio...I mostly am doing manipulations in Ableton with various fx chains and utilizing multiple loopers using a simple footpedal while I perform. The majority of the sound comes from the performance.
@loalue: Thanks so much!
@The Euphoric Hum: Thank you!
@daviocan: Thanks! I'll score a film, when a filmmaker asks. :)
@Senji Niban: Thank you very much!
@Bosmink: thanks!
@Blues Skies and Paign: Thanks! Very perceptive - I very much like music that expresses conflicting emotions at once.
@Logicfray: Thanks!
@Valiska: Thanks much!
@Ross Barmache: Thanks, Ross!
Wonderful sense of inevitability to it.
Thanks so much, fredo and pbailey! I'm flattered at the comparison.
Thanks, Mark!
@dspornitz: Thanks! What a wonderful compliment.
Lovely, Devin!