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

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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.

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.