I’ve got onto the beta test list for this app for accessing all the MIDI parameters of the Moog Theremini, which is a really exciting prospect.
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Looking back at my sounds: Guitar looper 1
I thought I’d go back over my old SoundCloud files and pull out stuff as there’s some good noises in this. Having said that, I would think that wouldn’t I.
This was made with a Palm T3 using Bhajis Loops, and it still amazes me what can be done with Bhajis Loops.
And what a day that was with SoundLab at the Liberty Festival
SoundLab at the Liberty Festival
SoundLab sign
We had a great time, that’s for sure, but it was exhausting. The turn out we had was amazing too. So many people playing our Moog Thereminis for the first time, it was really amazing to see, in fact almost as amazing as the AlphaSphere, which was truly superb and attracted loads of attention.
And it won’t be long before all of that kit gets another outing at the Beautiful Octopus Club this Saturday.
Edinburgh Fringe: Beowulf The Blockbuster
This was a truly wonderful one man show. Executed beautifully with incredible craftsmanship. I loved every minute of the show and I can’t think of anything even remotely negative to say about it at all. Perhaps if you were expecting a performance of Beowulf that was very close to the text you might be disappointed, but if you’d been to the fringe before you probably wouldn’t have those kind of expectations of anything.
I loved it, and I’ll certainly be looking out for something by the same company next year.
SoundLab Digital Band at the Tunnel of Love, Royal Festival Hall
“Using two Thereminis, a Microsoft Kinnect, two iPads and Ableton Live in the middle of everything we made some lovely noises in the Tunnel of Love in July.”
This was a great event and the public reaction to it was fantastic.
Messing about with the light sensor in Ototo
And the Cloud bit arrives
Well it has arrived now. I suppose I should make something strangely cloud based but also musical.
Edinburgh Fringe: The Bunker Trilogy – Agamemnon
This was one of if not the best show I saw in Edinburgh this year. The Agamemnon is one of my favourite plays, as is the Orestia as a whole, but this version, set in a World War One bunker was incredible. The audience was actually placed inside the bunker with the cast and the proximity and intensity of the production made this a completely one off experience.
The performances were excellent. The set was brilliant. Yes, it probably was the best thing I saw all week.
This is why Loop Producer was so great
When you watch this you may (or may not) agree that this was actually pretty far ahead of it’s time for what it was trying to achieve. I love the fact that you can replay whole performances and just watch what you did.
Thinking about Ototo and MIDI
After a little while of playing with the Ototo and enjoying what it can do I now want to attach it to some gear to play with it via MIDI. So my next experiments will be using Ototo to drive apps and other devices over MIDI and we’ll see where that takes me.
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