Playing a live gig tag-teaming with Rob Bothof at Smart Project Space. Details here.
Rob&me have been playing sets each using our own homebrew sequencer and taking turns playing a song. We find that more interesting than playing a solo set each; at times we challenge each other, at other moment we can act as a safety net.
Stop by if you’re around.
> Sweet, you’re trying it with LuaJIT! In the README where I say “try
> LuaJIT for extra speed” I really mean it. If you TRY it, I’m very
> interested in how it works out.
Ok, so this is “bleeding edge” in the sense that actual cutting will
be done. Ok, got that. And I don’t know Lua. And I only understand the
bits of C++ that work like ChucK. Great, business as usual, then. I’ll
try this normally first and if that doesn’t work we’ll add fire to the
situation and see whether that improves anything.
I’m spinning at De Ilussie (casuaristraat, The Hague) new year’s eve. Expect lofi-cheerfulness. Rumour has it there will be fairly big entry fee but from there on drinks are free. That should be fun/a mess/both.
Played a all acoustical set at Tonka with Robber&Jamie last Tuesday. The inspiration for this was how the studio used to be a huge mess with many a odd object in it. Robber&me were wondering whether we couldn’t make music with those, saving the need to haul around so much gear. Another matter is that it’s so easy to become dependant on automation and it’d be interesting to play without any.
Into the second hour, however, when looking for something new to make a sound with, my eye was struck by the turntables. I ended up putting some objects (a can and a empty beer bottle) on them and hanging others from wires attached to mic stands right above them. Then, instead of playing, I stood back to admire the resultant system. I now wonder whether I’m very consistent or merely set in my ways.
The question would bother me more if we hadn’t had so much fun, I think.
More editing; corrected link
Will be spinning some records this Thursday (dec 10) at Vrijhaven (at the villa). Stop by if you’re around The Hague. Expect “not quite pop”
details at the Vrijhaven site
Later this week; the Fine Fleur festival.
For the occasion I’m working on transitions/mixing for my sequencer. This is a non-trivial issue because it means loading new sounds (that need to be analysed for zero crossings and so on) without causing glitches. Another issue is that it’s not so clear how to transition from track A to track B when B has yet to be written.
Still; this is the one thing that I got negative comments on; a lot of people disliked the pauses between songs so even getting rid of pauses should be a step forward and once that works I can figure out how to make transitions musically interesting.
Walked home this morning, close to dawn.
That’s not so unusual for me, but I kept wondering why the mixture of party-goers on their way home and especially the early religious people were giving me so wide a bow.
Last night I once again joined Sami (Bangkok Impact) in his liveset at a Electro-nation event in the new room at the Melkweg (one of the more prominent performance spaces here) and learned some lessons. See inside for details on improvised dance music, experimental turntablism and breakneck development.
Bad deadline, lots of code to write… Then the screen of my music laptop went black.
This makes for a nice afternoon today.
New Creme office is great and far closer to The Mess, I proposed it be named “Trainspotter’s Heaven”. Vrijhaven PA sounds pritty good now and can certainly go loud enough; the main limiting factor was turntable feedback. Just in time for Tapes/Jahtari on Saturday which I’ll have to miss due to supporting master Sami that night in Amsterdam. More updates on the plans for Saturday soon, assuming we don’t run into another case of documentational slackage….
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