Auditory Canvas

A blog for the ramblings of my musical life….

monome finally built and complete….

So after originally building the monome kit I ordered in December, after spending many an hour with it and playing a live gig with it in January, I ended up falling in love with it so much I decided to build another one, and combine them to make one big monome…..

After running through several case desing and attempts, I finally finished the end result, which is basically a leather bound tray as the base housing, with a hand crafted piece of MDF for the top plate. Into which i drilled and filed 128 holes for the buttons, then cut 128 holes out of a piece of cream leather to cover it.

The end result is in the pictures below. I’ll post some video of it in action soon.

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Posted 1 year ago at 2:12 pm.
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Building myself a monome….

I just ordered a monome 40h kit from monome.

It basically gives me a custom 8×8 (64) grid to use several of the many open source apps developed for the box, and also enables me to scale it up to a 128, and 256 in the future, which, providing the build of the first one goes well, I’ll no doubt be doing.

Monome 40h

monome 40h

I’ll be building a custom case for it too, different to the one above, probably wooden, so I’ll be posting updates on how the build is going along the way once the kit is here.

Wish me luck

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 9:50 am.
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About Me:

Founder of Summer Rain Recordings, David grew up in the seventies, surrounded by music (at least until he took his mother’s record player apart at the age of 6 to see how it worked). His favourite toys were those that made or recorded sound. One of his most loved being the Stylaphone, which he was given at the age of 4.

David began Djing at the age of 18, playing local events and clubs whenever the opportunity arose, often for free, solely for the enjoyment and satisfaction it gave him.

Whilst at University in Manchester, UK, David co formed and ran a successful club night for 3 years, playing to a loyal, continuously growing crowd every fortnight. Success in this arena lead to David securing many bookings at local clubs and events around the North West of England.

Through his love for Djing, David felt an increasing desire to create his own music, and explore the soundscapes that were building up in his mind.

The day that profoundly changed David’s life occurred by chance. A friend took him into the University music studio, briefly showed him how to turn the keyboards and equipment on, gave a ten minute lesson in the music production software on the computer, and left the room. 6 hours flew by, completely hooked, he had found the path he had been searching for since he was a child.

Ever since, every penny he shouldn’t have spent, every spare moment he has, goes on letting emotions flow through sound.

Through the last 10 years David has been busy spending all his time exploring all the musical avenues that intrigue him, as well as concentrating on his own tracks, he has worked on numerous remixes, written, scored, and performed many contemporary theatre underscores and soundtracks, music for hair shows, and music for various websites.

David’s records and releases under the Auditory Canvas alias and David Leeson alias on Summer Rain Recordings, the label that David founded and setup to help artists get what they deserve, and also give something back via charity donations. David donates 25% of all royalties received from the sales of his EPs to the charity NextAid, Summer Rain Recordings also donate 25% of all profits from the EPs.

Discography: Portraits EP - 2006, Destinations EP 2007, Earth EP 2008, Elements EP 2009, Album TBC – July 2009, Always There - Caitlyn Hessell (Auditory Canvas Remix) - 2008, Imogen Heap - The Song That Never Was (Auditory Canvas Remix) - 2009, Truth - January (Auditory Canvas Remix)- 2007, Mask Dance - Ingo Vogelmann (Auditory Canvas Remix) – 2006 + Several unreleased tracks, collaborations, and remixes.

Recent Gig History:
Played recent Live and DJ sets supporting Random Rab, David Starfire, Bassnectar, Freq Nasty, Kaskade, and several other prominent artists across the US and UK, held residence at Bliss Nightclub in Reno, Nevada, also played several camps at the last 2 years of Burning Man, as well as a number of events and clubs in Nevada and California. Full list available on request.

Next Gig:
The Big Bounce festival – 19th, 20th, 21st June 2009 – Belden California – flier: THe Big Bounce