Since my last post on this, which was almost 2 years ago, a lot has changed, and I've been very busy. I had a brief detour into trying to incorporate my laptop, establishing a parity with Ableton using a floatingpoints multiclock - which, while it worked, turned out to be the wrong move in the end and resulted in some technical problems at the two February gigs.

I now have a Pimidi instead of a Pisound, so that I can talk to MCL and MM separately. I've broken the barrier of 128 patterns+kits ent...

Lately I feel disillusioned with the way people dismiss music sometimes. In particular when abstractions overshadow the raw experience. Music invites discussions about culture, genre, theory, and personal biases, but when things like that overtake the moment to moment experience, I can't help wondering if something important is being lost.

For example, Muse - a band I liked a lot in my early teens. For me, I think they're a band that reflects this. I have always felt that their music, like so mu...

After some site upgrades it's become much easier for me to write posts. The site has better post management (for example, I can now store drafts on-site), and a better editor that uses markdown, rather than what I had before (which was a WYSIWYG editor) embedded in flask admin). I've learned a lot building this site and it continues to be surprisingly adaptive to my needs

Anyway, recently I did two shows. The first show was a new spin on material from the March show, and the second show was all...

Been having some thoughts about alternate arrangements for how I currently perform my music. I've been calling these SLMs, writing them down and trying to flesh them out.

I am toying with the idea of incorporating a pure data patch on a raspberry pi that will serve to replace the MIDI merge box, as well as provide potential SLMs via the USB MIDI IN port on MCL, and some kind of redirect to the MnM via MCL PORT 2. Control would come into the pi via USB MIDI from a MIDI controller, similar to my c...

I wanted to shed some light on some behind-the-scenes stuff pertaining to the recent gig for Stimulacrum @ The Bee's Mouth, and also touch on some of the struggles I've been having with regard to gigging and my health.

The set was performed on a pair of Elektron synthesizers - a Monomachine and a Machinedrum UW, with custom firmware (X.01A and X.10), a MegaCMD with MCL 4.51, an Arturia Minilab 3, and a 3x3 MIDI merge device (U6 MIDI pro) to route everything. It was mixed with a Mackie Mix8 and r...