Long time no post. Back on the posting, hopefully!
here goes two snippets of latest studies around the meta-instrument development, this ones based on the ligeti poly sequencer. Been really busy lately with theatre performances, and video mapping pre-productions, but will try to find some time to keep the blog up!
Waveform visual representations of the wonderful ARP Axxe MK1 that visited the studio last weekend.
Last friday a great jam took place @HOW, joining the stochastic forces of Cage Cabarrett, with the amazing voice of Sara Ribeiro, my own sonic manglings, Francisco Rodrigues voices from the vinyl world, and Neco’s (The Fox “Skelectronic”) bass buildups; there were also lots of participation from the audience during the 5.5h long session. Ben San was on the video wheels, and LRTM on the documentation (not always on this order).
The gear list was:
Mixer Allen&Heath ZED14
KENTON pRO200
Pro Co Turbo RAT
Ibanez Classic Phaser PH-99
Space Echo E301
Buddha Machine
Electribe EMX
Electribe ESX
Korg MS20
EDP WASP
Yamaha CS5
ARP Axxe MK I
Jazz Mutant Lemur
Nord Modular
Korg Monotron
Hand Made Theremin
Piezo Balloon
Shure SM7B
Electro Harmonix Memory Man
Electro Harmonix Cathedral
Martin Backpacker Guitar
Synapse Kinect Hack
Metal Horn
iPad Griid
here is a small teaser of the documentation:
Two synths, one nice session of improvisation and experimental music. Small snippet from this marriage between a Korg Monotron and a Clavia Nord Modular.
Tonight is time for.. a cycling 365 post. Here goes a take from a study about Ligeti polyrhythms using the max for live patch by Bruno Gallo. Thank you Bruno.
Today is time for some new gear. Thanks to mister André Pinto, i got infected with the Korg MONOTRON virus. I was hoping to get a MONOTRIBE, but, unable to find one, i got the MONOTRON instead. What a small beast it is! It’s already a legend for me, and also my second acquisition in the realm of true analog. And it will not be the last for sure…
So, here are two snippets from today’s improv session one, with the MONOTRON and the THEREMIN on track one, and the MONOTRON and a looper on track two:
Monotron #1 by Rui Gato
Monotron #2 by Rui Gato
On session two, i continued the work on the CTR instrument (i will be calling CTR instrument now on to my development on a hybrid natural user interface instrument using Synapse, wiimote, and some more stuff). After a week of work, it’s starting to sound more interesting and more expression and sonic possibilities emerge with the use of the wiimote to control LFO’s and looper operations.
Here is session two, sliced in three segments (that were played continuously) for your listening convenience.
Here is a more intricate use for the Synapse middleware by Ryan Challinor; this time, i’ve mapped my left hand X value (relative to my body) to a MIDI pitch shift; my right hand Y value (also relative to body) to MIDI notes, ascending; my right foot Y value to note release time; my left foot ‘kick’ (Z axis fast move) to toggle a pulse oscillator on the synth; and my left hand ‘punch’ (Z axis fast move) to toggle the MIDI pitch shift. also my right hand Z (relative to body) is mapped to a send for the memoryman effect.
today i’ve spent one hour of my day experimenting on Euclidean Rhythms, and recorded a snippet of that ongoing work: Euclidean1 by Rui Gato
with this experiment i’ve decided that, just like i do with my cycling activity, i should start giving a part of my day, every time i have the opportunity, to exercise my experimental and improvisation capabilities. Right in the same way i do exercise my bike riding every time i can, for one hour or so.
so i’ve started the cycling ’365 project, in witch i will keep posting snippets of music and whatever appears, while the project runs.
TONE SCIENTISTS + GUESTS
(Rui Toscano, Rui Valério) + (Fernando Fadigas, João Paulo Feliciano, Rui Gato, André Pinto, Augusto Sanches)
23 de Junho – 22h
Concert without electro-acoustic reproduction. Instead of speakers, the musicians wear headphones. There were a pair available to one element of the audience at a time, and a confortable chair. Concept by the Tone Scientists (Rui Toscano, Rui Valério). Thanks to the Scientists for the invitation, it was really nice to play tonight!
This is a small experiment on natural user interface, using a kinect and synapse middleware by Ryan Challinor.
Tomorrow will post some music made with this system, it really becames expressive after a while.
edit: here it is.