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Show this Friday & interview posted

I’ll be performing at Wild Goose Creative as part of the Fuse Factory’s Frequency Friday series at 2491 Summit St. in Columbus, OH.  Doors open at 8 PM.  Admission is $5.

 I will be playing guitar using my custom looping software, and it will mark the debut of my homemade electronic instruments in a live setting. Hopefully nothing blows up. The show will also feature an interactive component using a repurposed game controller similar to the Art Pad shows, so come out and play along with me.  😀

Richard Bowers conducted interviews of the performers and put together this video to give you a taste of what you can expect Friday night:

 

Cigar Box MIDI controller @ Highly Liquid

I’ve recently been privileged to get to know and work with John from Highly Liquid. He specializes in retrofitting pre- or sans-MIDI gear, and produces original MIDI hardware for standalone projects created by musicians, technicians, artists, and hobbyists. Working out of the Columbus Idea Foundry, John used the laser cutter there to repurpose a cigar box as a unique MIDI controller. I was asked to prototype a demo in Max/MSP to demonstrate its functionality. Details on the build, and instructions on developing your own can be found at the Highly Liquid blog.  I highly recommend checking it out.  And while you’re there, check out the MIDI wall he created at the Foundry.

New generative Max/MSP track at Soundcloud

Just uploaded a new track using a couple of different Max patches I built for my generative music.  The melodic material was composed by routing summed LFOs into coll objects storing scale content, then sent out to 3 external synth voices. Percussion is all generative as well using 8 different samples chosen every half-measure by Max from a folder of field recordings. The end result is a track filled with ambient pads and varied melodies atop glitchy IDMish beats.

make a pretty robot by sineqube

Site redesign

Everything redesigned.  Blog now included.  Videos on their own page.  Music streaming on its own page.  I’m digging it so far.  Thoughts?

Kapling 1.0 now available!

Kapling is a little standalone physical modeling synthesizer. It attempts the emulation of vibrating strings and resonant bodies and can be used to create strange and beautiful boingy, klonky, twangy tones. Key features include:

• 8 independent synth voices
• 32-step sequencer
• realtime timbral controls
• randomized initial impulse to provide natural variation over time
• tempo-synced stereo delay
• store presets for pitch, sequences, and timbre, and export them to disk
• record output directly to disk as an aiff file
• cpu monitor helps keep track of the tax on your system
• each voice has a hotkeyed mute switch for ease of live use
• freeware! (but donations are welcome!!)

More info can be found on the Kapling page. Enjoy!

Sapling 1.1 is now available!

New features include:

• On/off toggles for each individual file, with hotkeys
• Ability to save and load presets to and from disk
• Access to I/O settings

Visit the Sapling page to download.