Recently I was invited to perform during a rare indoors Minneapolis Art on Wheels event at the West Bank Social Club, a new media artist space above the Nomad in Minneapolis. The space contained a newer (1970s) Hammond organ, sans tone wheels and drawbars, with an after market analog beat box including buttons for “Rock 1”, “Rock 2”, “Rumba”, and more. The idea was to do a bit of improvising on the organ while various projections went on inside and outside the space.
I brought my laptop with Ableton and started by sampling all the patterns on the analog beat box. I also brought along my iPod Touch running Bebot to make some live loops to go along with the beats. Here’s an excerpt from the set. The only sound sources used were Bebot and and the Hammond analog beat box.
MAW Party Ostraka Set Excerpt
It’s been a while since I have gone crazy applying layers and layers of mad processing to a chunk of sound just to hear what happens, but tonight I was demonstrating signal processing to my audio production class, which gave me an excuse to let loose and over process something into oblivion. I started with a one bar loop that I ripped to a .wav using iTunes, then applied reverse and pitch shifting with and without time correction. I topped it off with reverb and delay to meet the requirements of the exercise. 
Although it looks as though I just mashed the keyboard with the capslock on, the title of this entry is an acronym for “Yet Another Pre[C]ambrian Resonance Track Preview”. In just twelve days 
Lovingly mixed on cheap ear buds, this micro track consists of a cut up chunk of low frequency Rhodes running through auto pan and a bit of amp modeling, out of key FM synth bass, and frosty beats that were partially programmed using the