"variations for oud & synthesizer (1)" (excerpt) ::
"generator 6" & "generator 2" (excerpt) ::
"quickies" (excerpt) ::
"070325" (excerpt) ::
"081205" (excerpt) ::
"disingenuousness" (excerpt) ::
"mgtr 10 & 11 & 12" (excerpt) ::
"tracker etude 008/007 mix" (excerpt) ::
"maatraameru" (excerpt) ::
"biprosia 1 & 2" (excerpt) ::
july, 2010 :: summer 2010releases are go ...
clockwise from top left:: the root strata "generators" c52, the "live generators (1)" c38/c34 box c/o protracted view, the split lp with mike shiflet for amethyst sunset, the collaborative split c60 / poster with hrvatski & the beniffer editions boys, & the "variations for oud" single on no ... these can all be purchased where the physical evidence of a love of music, manifest in hard work & good design sense /follow-through / execution are found ... undoubtedly they can also be acquired where the need to improve some wayward fanpire's seed/leech ratio is palpable (although to even begin to champion such a preposterous scenario / system is out of the question) ... otherwise, mms is your best bet ...
may, 2010 ::some nice concerts lined up for the spring (details to your right) including a collaborative set with my personal hero felix kubin, then one opening for maurizio(i.e. 1/2 of the basic channel production team) 's new trio in brooklyn ... then over the summer there will be a set by geoff & i opening for caboladies & sam goldberg's radio people project in jamaica plain, then one for lucas abela's face-smash project justice yeldham & the dynamic ribbon device & dan greenwood's diagram a in easthampton(at the new flywheel space - i hear they have a killer p.a.) - what can i say ; i hate to headline ...
there will probably be other things in between over the summer (geoff mullen and i are working on sorting out an appearance at dan "oneohtrix point never" lopatin's monthly upstairs cdr night at coco66 in greenpoint ; maybe july ?), then in the fall i'll be playing at the neon marshmallow fest in chicago, the hopscotch festival in raleigh-durham, then the high zero festival in baltimore ... plus i hear that ben vida, greg davis, and i will be picking up a bunch of dates in early september as tortoise's opening act ; that should be something ...
i had begun planning a more extensive tour of the u.s. to coincide with the september festival appearances, but it's going to be something of a bottleneck what with mms running full-steam (if you haven't checked in a while ; i recommend you do so - we've been kicking ass over there) ; that said - i will be driving out to chicago from the17th to the19th of of august, then back on the23rd to the 25th - get in touch if you want to schedule a stopover in any city that makes sense(ditto goes for the 6th through 8th of september between boston & raleigh-durham, the 11th through 13th on the way back ; then the 22nd & 27th between here & baltimore) ...
april, 2010 ::on record store day(geoff and i had a wonderful, if wet time spinning dollar-bin lps in a loosely "throwed & slowed" style out front of angela sawyer's weirdo records shop under a tarp during a torrential downpour) i had an interesting conversation with a young man who admonished me for "not releasing anything anymore" ... to paraphrase the national audio company, i'm "committed long-term to tangible music formats" ; by my calculation(s) there will be more kfw product hitting record store shelves in 2010 than during the past10 years combined(i had a very prolific 2009) ... these include (in roughly chronological order) ::
... plus there will further volumes of the split "synth" series with xela & svarte greiner (for digitalis vinyl), ben vida(for amish), medroxy progesterone acetate(for not not fun), and at least1 more(probably for dekorder) ... oh, and there should be an lp of collaborative & solo recordings from a 2002 tour with joseph suchy & thea-musik sound-system on tonschacht at some point, along with an lp of two deftly collagedassemblages of materials recorded in a trio with greg davis & ben vida, and a double-tape set of the first four "live generator" concerts from late 2009 ...
don't need records, tapes, and compact disc recordables on your shelf / in your life ? that's fine(i can respect your wish to live in a matrix-like bubble of amniotic fluid with only but a few shiny white plasticpossessions capable of serving up the sum of all human endeavour at merely a button's press) ... archives ofdata-compressedtranscription files of most to all of these hard-copy releases can easily be found by searching for them on the internet ; i'm not going to stop you ... but if you've got the time / energy / resources /good sense to acquire any / all of these ; my own mimaroglu music salesdistribution service & accompanying end-userretailwebsite is a great place to start ...
march, 2010 :: here's a pair of live recordings of the current version of the "generator" patch / piece ::
"live generator 2.0" (recorded @ the whitehaus, 02/27/10) ::
this music grew out of my frustration(s) with "performing" computer music in public settings & the desire to introduce more risk(conversely ; more reward) into my live electronic music ; it's based around & performed entirely on a scalable selection of eurorack synthesizermodules that derive all of their control voltages from a master "clock" triggering a sample & hold "canon" patch ...
this most recent revision utilizes two 4-part "shift register" canons(one of sine waves, another of variable-width pulse waves) along with a series of drum & cymbal sounds(each being triggered by a separate poly-rhythm of the master clock) each run through a separateprocessing chain ... in addition, the sine wave canon is being fed into three different "mangling" sub-patches ; a bucket-brigade delay / low pass filter, an 8-bit digital looper / low-pass filter, and an8-bit sampler / low-pass filter ... plus there are dozens of "sources of uncertainty" controlling the panning, filtering, range, octave, and level of each discrete component ... everything is always moving ; elements can be ganged together to modulate in unison, or can be diverted off from the master "tempo" entirely, yielding a controlled chaos of asynchronous events ... it's important to note that there are no pre-recorded sounds whatsoever ; all sound-generation, processing, panning, etc ... is happening in real time ...
while the piece is certainly still in its infancy, i'm very happy with how things are taking shape ; each new "set" introduces further complexities and refines the overall shape / form(the two recordings above, recorded only a month apart, are quite different) ;
this is the piece i'll be playing live &improving on during the next few months ...
december, 2009 :: what once was lostnow is found (i.e. this "playthroughs" video !!!) ::
"modena" (video shot during november, 2002) ::
august12th, 2010, 7pm
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