ACB Live Volume 6 was lived streamed on Twitch.TV, Wednesday, April 16, 2025 (coincidentally my mum and niece’s birthday). This time around we featured electronic artist, Erik Tinberg. After Erik’s concert I performed Rhodonea in a similar fashion to what I did at the SEAMUS conference last month. The video about is an archive of the event including the performances along with a bit of banter between me and Erik about our concepts and process. Our friend Charles handled the video and streaming duties beautifully.
This video is a new interpretation of Rhodonea (Rhodonea II) that I performed for SEAMUS (the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US) at Purdue University on Saturday, March 22, 2025. Attending and performing at the conference was a fantastic experience. I’ll share more about the event in future post.
The piece serves as a model of how we might collaborate with near future synthetic entities. Software feeds automated, algorithmic, projected visual cues, tempi, and low frequency oscillations to improvising electronic musicians. The visuals, based on Maurer Roses, suggest melodic, harmonic, and percussive gestures that are modulated by data streaming from the generative animations. Throughout the piece the artist adapts to the familiar yet unpredictable graphic scores and corresponding signals.
Note: please watch in full screen with the lights off and listen on headphones or high fidelity stereo speakers
Last Tuesday, August 29, 2023 was the fifth entry into the AudioCookbook Live streaming show. This time around two guests participated with me including Lucas Melchior aka MKR, and Evan Beaumont. Each us of played music using the Dirtywave M8 tracker. I was thoroughly impressed with the work that Lucas and Evan performed, so I am pleased to be able to share the stream archive with you. The video is long, but I have included chapter markers so you can skip the discussions, although I think we made some interesting points about how using trackers influences our approaches to music composition, production, and performance.
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.
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.
