Alors le doute s’immiscea - la peste - hangars liquides 26 - 2007)

Summer fests!
la peste will be playing at the Tundra Fest:

MORE INFO go to website click here

cya in Lithuania ////

back from Oostende, speedy mood live intro

That’s what I did a few mins after I came back home a week ago, the performance could have started (only !) like this. I decided not to send this to the trash, for the hardcore lovers around. Just for fun.

So… even if I asked for 1H30, I knew that 1H would be the duration of the performance, and I was ok with that. I did not expect to play 25 mins. I did not expect either not to find the proper audio cable : they had no connection for my 828, and the sound was coming out from the powerbook, that is to say in a much poorer quality, without the possibility to pre-listen with the headphones. Last but not least, in spite of my over repeated request to have a minimum 30 min sound check and a dedicated space to install my set-up… I did not get any of those, and as a result, I could not get the uc33 to work, being forced to mix 8 tracks with the mouse (it’s impossible to play cuts, sharp dynamic changes…), and missing ALL the controls associated with the knobs on the controller, on which I had worked a long time (mostly ‘musical’ zone- sfx morphings). In the future I will have to refuse to play in those conditions, simply not suitable for playing my live. Many thx to Sandy and everyone in the 260 km/h car for everything else. He is really not to blame for what went wrong.

Good news : I will play a minimum of 1hr, in the end. Thanks Luuk !
Today Sonicsidekick is releasing their ‘extreme drumsynth’, that I have quickly tried on my Vista partition - and believe me this is not another drumsynth, I would highly recommend anyone interested to give it a try.

Are you tired of the convolution vs. algorithmic reverb or software vs. rack units reverbs debate ? Here is something different : some guys have put a few mics in a 11m ferroconcrete tank to which they have connected the unit… broadcasting your own samples, that you can upload via the web ! Hummm you could record another IR, and use it - but no ! it’s so much fun to bookmark and go to :
http://www.tank-fx.com/

I have been working quite a lot on some patches for the party in Oostende. I gave up composing new sounds (mostly from the modular) more than 2 weeks ago, to focus on creating new ‘puzzle shapes’. The problem is that I am supposed to build up something live from those pieces, and it’s getting more and more complex. I have tried to design an ergonomic workspace without restricting the possibilities, however my Live patch still looks like a petrochemical plant. I would need more than 45 ridiculous minutes. I am wondering if someone pretending to play that night will really do.

Welcome Blotto Epsilon ;D

I have to start this blog by a test, with almost all sort of media available on the blog.

I was in the limbo the other day diving in the picture attached, that I use as a background for my desktop, when the WTC attacks came back all of a sudden, that’s why I am posting it.

The audio is some kind of techno I am working on for the next party, within 2 weeks from now.

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And the video shows zones scrolling within Live 8, on various tracks. This is only an experiment. In the future, I’ll have to pay attention to global cpu use, you will hear a lot of drop-outs due to the fact wire tap studio, snap x pro and Live were all running together. The only cool thing to notice is the zone I created with Widi’s audio to midi application sending midi data to a synplant patch. This is in the beginning, before 0′44″. After I jump to my master effects chain, where I scroll between lucifer, artillery, effectrix… triggered by my controller keys in real time. I have one ‘pad’ bus not going to that master, hence the pad sound is not modified by that chain of effects.

Later I plan to post work in progress, live performances, full video tutorials, raw sounds from the spectacular wildlife around or the modular, and of course some thoughts I wish to share on anything.

News from the studio :
Today, I have created a new partition to install Leopard (at last !!!), needed to run the extremly promising generative environment developped by Lucidmac, Elysium. I have been on 10.4.11 so far, running Sun’s Virtual Box to get access to Windows apps, and I am quite impatient to test Bootcamp to check if it is faster.
I have started to jam with MOTU’s Volta FC1. This is awesome, quite the easiest way to drive CV only analog gear. I guess the software will cause a big demand for their soundcards, still the only ones to have DC coupled I/O. No more info, as requested by the beta testers agreement MOTU asks you to sign.