Tonight I am performing a solo set of original electronic music featuring instruments including the Dirtywave M8, Prophet REV2, and Numa X Piano GT. The instrument are integrated through a complex web of apps and customization on iOS including AUM and Mozaic to name two. Check it out at the Terminal Bar, 409 E. Hennepin, Minneapolis, Minnesota. My set starts at 8pm ans is followed by the jazz improv trio SingleCell who just released a new album titled Regeneration.
Please enjoy this archive of the stream from ACB Live Volume 3 featuring Eric Carranza from April 18, 2023. Eric and I had a great time improvising together. I love Eric’s playing, his sense of sound design, and the way that he builds textures with electronics.
I am excited to join the talented Eric Carranza for AudioCookbook Live Volume 3, this Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Stream starts at 7:30pm. I have had the pleasure of playing with Eric during the Voltage Controller series, and a handful of times with Yeti Steady including Suwal Singh on Tablas. Watch it at twitch.tv/audiocookbook We will be raising money for TheLinkMN.org through optional donations. Hope to see you there!
Eric Carranza is an artist and music educator based in the Lowertown Arts district of Saint Paul. His musical work can be heard on recent albums by artists such as Dem Atlas, Justin Titus and batteryboy to name a few. Eric collaborates and performs with many creative musical artists including Lady Midnight and Molly Brandt. In personal creative endeavors, he has a rich and diverse pool of projects to juggle (Excessive, Jest, SPACEGLOW, Yeti Steady, PRINTS etc.) as well as musical composition and sound design for mobile games, apps, ads, and more. — ericjuliocarranza.com
This Friday, April 7, 2023 I will performing with Suwal Singh on tablas at the Rök Eatery in St. Paul, Minnesota from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. Cover charge is $5. This will be our second time collaborating as a duet. The instrumental music includes tablas from Singh and me on keyboards and synths. My setup includes the Numa X GT stage piano, my Prophet REV2, and the Dirtywave M8. Here’s a short excerpt from our last performance.
The Dirtywave M8 has been consistently sneaking its way into my music workflow these days. One of the things I really enjoy doing with it is sample glitching. There are so many generative techniques possible when it comes to the tracker and how it is integrated with the sampling instrument. Things like chance, playback rate, direction, start position, randomization and anything else that makes the sample instrument get weird are really interesting and effective approaches to sample manipulation.
In this clip I have several rows of chains which include instruments, each with different samples and ways that the samples are being juggled and twisted. This involves chance and randomness applied to everything from delaying the note to reversing the playback direction. All the samples are sounds that I either recorded or made using synthesis or other sound design techniques. The range of possible textures is remarkable even without a wide range of samples to work with.