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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Spectacular Spectacular LA

Saturday August 14th, 2010

So Simple Presents: Spectacular Spectacular

"A night of ridiculousness in honor of Baseck's birthday"

Featuring:

OTTO VON SCHIRACH - ipecac, subconscious communications / miami florida

ALL LEATHER - dim mak / san diego

WE ARE THE WORLD - manimal vinyl

BASECK / SONIC DEATH RABBIT - subconscious communications, darkmatter

DEREK MICHAEL - friendly integration, detroit underground

WMX - so simple

TED NAVA - so simple

WET MANGO - so simple / darkmatter

& very special guest!

VENETIAN SNARES - planet mu, timesig / winnepeg canada

real time cinema by:

NABOA

TIMEBOY - institute for cinema studies

18+
$15
$13 w/ rsvp
(only one name per email address. cut off is 3pm the day of the event)

Thesex - 816 S. Santa Fe Ave. Downtown LA, 90021

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Swarm Intelligence Music

Evan X. Merz has released Black Allegheny, one of the first albums composed entirely of swarm generated music, using an algorithmic Java program he wrote called Becoming.

Swarm Controlled Sampler - Becoming Live from Evan Merz.

Inspired by John Cage's chance-based compositions using graphs and gamut, Merz wrote the software for Becoming and incorporated the ideas of swarm intelligence.

Each "agent" has preferences that determine its movement around the grid. These values dictate how likely the agent is to move toward food (green), how likely the agent is to move toward the swarm (black dots), and how likely the performer is to avoid the predator (red dot). Audio files are triggered by the blue squares.

Download or listen to the album on Merz's bandcamp or check out more Becoming videos on vimeo.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Robert Rich Chicago 5/21/10

Robert Rich played a fantastic set of spacy electroacoustic music at Transamoeba Studios in Chicago on 5/21/10.

Mesmerizing soundscapes, from ambient to tribal, using a variety of electronic and acoustic instruments, including the waterphone pictured here.

Dynamic concert performance.

A great mix of analog and digital sounds.

Meticulous + engaging.

Bird call.

Robert Rich's live gear setup.

Lap steel guitar - Digitech GNX3 + Eventide TimeFactor pedal.

MOTM Synthesis Technology modular synth - Line 6 Echo Pro + M-Audio Ozonic keyboard controller.

Mackie LM3204 mixer - Eventide Eclipse - Digitech RDS-8000 Time Machine - Line 6 Echo Pro + Olympus stereo audio recorder.

Korg keys - DIY PVC winds + percussion.

Ableton Live.

For more, visit robertrich.com.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Distortled Box

Distortled Box Live Visual Set from Distortled Box.

Testing of the visual setup for the Distortled Box live sets. Two circuit bending Sega Master System II synchronized with a self made analog motor sequencer.
By Snail & Ralp.
Track: Ralp - Purprae.

Distortled Box is an audiovisual project started in Barcelona in 2007 by Degon, Nude Boy, Ralp, Sala, Snail and Weldio.

Music + visuals are generated entirely by 8-bit technology, including Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo NES, Commodore 64 and Sega Master System, using programs such as LSDJ, Nanoloop, MidiNES, Mssiah, Cybertracker, JCH...

The collective is working on their second version of the Distortled Box, a portable sound/light system capable of starting an 8-bit mini rave anywhere:

Distortled Box V.2 Tuning from Distortled Box.

via sendling

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

How To Destroy Angels: The Believers - Wired iPad App

How To Destroy Angels have released a new song called "The Believers" via the Wired magazine iPad app [iTunes link].

The interactive Wired iPad article gives a behind-the-scenes account of the recording process in Trent Reznor's studio, including several sound samples and photographs of the synths: moog minimoog Voyager - Diabolical Devices circuit-bent Casio SK-1 - Metasonix D-1000 vacuum tube drum machine - Roland RD-700GX... also an African marimba + ukulele.

Synth freaks, there's also a shot of Reznor's EMS Synthi A pin matrix.

You can read the article, Constructing a Song: Trent Reznor's Cacophony of Beats, online, but check out the iPad app for the audio + more pics.

How To Destroy Angels is the new musical project by Trent Reznor, his new wife Mariqueen Maandig and Atticus Ross, with Alan Moulder mixing on an SSL AWS 900+ console. Their self-titled debut EP is scheduled for release on July 6.

update: the believers - wired ipad mp3 [lo-fi rip]