December 2011
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Arvo Pärt “Fratres” as a no-input mixing desk performance. I am stunned.
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All day, every day.
Unlike traditional sketches, I aim to develop interactions, including a highly unaccompanied linearity that juxtaposes all notions of influential themes. My latest piece begins with a rather tense ‘chord-study’, before symbolically transforming the existing poly-virtuosic material into a more poly-soloistically-modernistic state, a process I term...
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November 2011
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Let it be
I was working all morning on a track that I thought was almost finished and just needed polishing. Four hours later I had muted the original voices and recorded 10 new layers of instruments. CMD+Q and no, I don’t want to save that.
As not to be frustrated, I opened a different track, cut out one minute, added some Echoes and happily printed the result.
I love throwing stuff away. Only in...
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Silent Way Sync Racks for Ableton Live (AU)
Expert Sleepers Silent Way is a great tool for using a modular synth with your computer. It gets even easier once you make use of Ableton’s rack system.
I have compiled two Ableton Live Racks for use with Ableton Live for you to use and adapt. One is used to Start/Stop/Clock/Reset a hardware sequencer such as Pressure Points/Brains. The other is a bunch of timesynced LFOs (SINE, COS, SAW,...
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October 2011
6 posts
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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air...
– Frank Zappa (via apoplecticskeptic)
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September 2011
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