8 posts tagged “idm”
btw. If you like any of these and would like a copy, please let me know and I'll happy email you one.
I'm going to add some touches of African percussion, my own voice and some quirky little synthesizer effects to punctuate it but the essence is there.
The second track to your right ladies and gents, is an interpretation of detroit electro filtered through the more modern development of dubstep. It took me 30min to do this and I'm imagining (strangely for me!) adding slow soulful female vocal snippets interspersed with textural elements working with the main chord which is playing. Ableton Live did something funny in rendering the song out. I actually had a composition (ie change!) but for some reason it came out as a single 33 bar loop. Weird. Feedback appreciated.
Here are some shots of the most recent live gig I performed at Glitch Bar in October. Big thanks to Jed (pictured in top photo) for organising the whole night. Was a great night, Zen Paradox performed a very well polished gig. I have a recording of my performance but am yet to render it to disk.
Here's a new track I've started working on on the weekend. I really like this track. I've got some vague ideas for a video clip which involves busy streets/machinery and traffic lights forming patterns of human faces.
Monolake is one of my favourite experimental electronic artists and has developed is own hardware interface called the Monodeck II. His use of the music sequencing software Ableton Live is well known and I recently discovered video footage of him using the previous version of his Monodeck I with Live here.
Ableton Live is a fantastic, inspiring piece of software for anyone who makes music using a computer, not just the electro freaks amongst us.
Check out the Kid Beyond video below for some truly amazing beatboxing.
Oh, also. Finally got my fully intact M-Audio Fast Track Pro that I was prattling on about last week. Yay! Can finally get myself organised to try and get some more live gigs. I've got a live set I've been working on for a while and also like the idea of DJ'ing with Ableton Live and my Novation Remote SL25
Ok, i've been looking for somewhere i can easily stick all my musical noodling and this place looks for the moment to be the one. No mess no fuss, slap bang, thankyou maam.
Previously I'd been worried about lumping all my different styles into one website for fear of the messages getting confused but I've decided not to worry. I'm now just going to use this place as a repository for ALL of my music and the differentiating factor will be the alias that I use for my different projects.
Firstly there's the stuff i'll release under my own name that feels closest to representing 'me'. Quirky electro/IDM -yes that's a genre name and a stupid one at that Intelligent Dance Music for the uninitiated- , it's atomorpheric, slightly melancholic, funky-ish, with semi-complex polyrhythms. I'm working on a 4 track EP at the moment tentatively called Consoling the Inconsolable.
Oh, oh! *BIG NOTE* This stuff is all WORKS IN PROGRESS. The track below i jammed out and recorded what came out. There are sections which are overlong (repetitive, -petative, -etative, -tative). It's currently about 6 min! and should be trimmed to about 4.
My second project 'Meio' which is cut from 'Meiosis' which is a scientific word for cell division is more stripped back with more of a focus on atmosphere, texture and space rather than rhythm and melody. Influenced by labels like Mille Plateux and other minimal experimentalists (Alva Noto etc) this music is less immediate and I suspect more of an acquired taste.
