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OSCemot-ronica

Despite the lack of updates/adverts I've played some good gigs recently at Forest, a solo modular set representing Monosynth Orchestra while Sean was away and a 4 way improvised Laptop bruiser with Mo-Seph, GungWho & Foss

I also managed to brick my iPhone for a day as I attempted to update to 2.0 firmware so that I could install OSCemote, a Lemur-style multitouch interface for iPhone

I've put together a basic max 5 patch to map OSC messages to multislider, matrixctrl, pictctrl etc...

Atrium Sample and Hold

Here's a short live sketch / composed improvisation of work in progress that will eventually be called 'Sample and Hold', chiefly because I'm live sampling and repurposing (via spectral scrubbing and buffer slicing) files triggered from a wacom graphics tablet

Sample & Hold (Live Sketch)

Thanks to Martin Parker for organising the informal airing!

Phantom Power

The Monosynth Orchestra Strikes Back was the theme for Grind Sight Open Eye. The founding trio (see post below) took titles from Sean's deck of Empire Strikes Back playing cards as inspiration for improvised tracks

Download some MSO videos from InfraRed

Interesting Work

Boiingg has finally been bounced (sorry!) from the Interesting Work links at Cycling 74. It was there for a while though. I've got a screenshot to prove it!

Boiingg to the Max(5)

Boiingg got a free facelift this morning courtesy of the kind folks at cycling74

I was a bit worried that I'd have to spend time resizing objects, but it looks so sexy I might have to start playing with it again!

The old look's on the left, view the new look and download the app at:

http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?
id=app:boiingg

 

Spectrum Festival, Edinburgh 20.04.08

I was kindly invited to play a laptop set at the biannual Spectrum Festival held at Edinburgh's Queens Hall in what was dubbed the 'Electroacoustic Attic'. Armed with Faderfox, Wacom tablet, Monome & my MSP toys, Max crashed about 5 minutes in, just as I was getting into my automaton groove

Luckily I was soundflowering the output into Gleetchlab which stayed up and despite losing my flow, I managed to get running again fairly quickly and based the set around live processing of some prepared modular synth improvisations, dusted with Wacom triggered drones, groans and tones

I was pleased to see it made The Scotsman, who described it as "Outré Electronica". Sadly there's no surviving audio document due to the crash... I didn't want to risk a streamed recording once I'd got things back up!

The Laurel Tree played a great set too!

Vimeo Video Vici

As MaxMSP enters a new age, I've put up the files that showcase the JS based interfaces that I built for my MSc final project. Never mind square number boxes, I've finally started to port them to Jitter using jit.gl.sketch etc. for fullfat goodness

See the JS & LCD based interfaces at http://www.vimeo.com/user450885

There's still some detective work to do regarding object dimensions, but the positioning has come together fairly easily

Monosynth Orchestra

The Monosynth Orchestra was initially founded by Sean Williams, Dave Meckin and myself as an open forum for onstage improvisation with analogue monosynths. After a couple of fun gigs at Edinburgh's Forest Cafe we set ourselves the task of performing Morton Subotnick's 'Sidewinder' (we even got his blessing!)

Bolstered by Owen Green, Lauren Hayes and Lin Zhang, with live visuals by Henrik Ekeus and sound projection/diffusion by Rachel Kellett, we performed the piece at Soundings Festival

Visit the Monosynth Orchestra website