Auditory Canvas

monome compilation album for Haiti fund released

The monome community just released a 27 track compilation album with a price of pay what you want, with all proceeds going to MSF.org for Haiti fund, also features a track from me on it…..

Live set prep – geek heaven

totally geeking out working on a live set – live break mashing with MLR on the monome, plus on the fly midi sequencing, combined with 8 discrete channels of live glitch using 8 instances of artillery with Live….it’s gonna be off the hook, I just need to hold it all together….

Sugar Bytes Artillery 2 is the shit! http://www.sugar-bytes.de/content/products/Artillery2/index.php?lang=en

Shows and gigs coming up

Here’s where you can catch me over the next few months, more dates and shows to come:

April:

14th – Live monome breaks set with Black Rock City All Stars @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno – $Free

15th – chilled/IDM breaks DJ set @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada – $Free

17th – Disco Balls @ Tonic Lounge, 231 West 2nd Street, Reno, Nevada – $?

18th – The Green Party @ TEN99 Club, 1099 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada – $?

21st – Live monome breaks set with Black Rock City All Stars @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno – $Free

22nd – chilled/IDM breaks DJ set @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada – $Free

28th – Live monome breaks set with Black Rock City All Stars @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno – $Free

29th – chilled/IDM breaks DJ set @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada – $Free

May:

Every Tuesday – Live monome breaks set with Black Rock City All Stars @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno – $Free

Every Wednesday – chilled/IDM breaks DJ set @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada – $Free

June:

19th, 20th, and 21st, The Big Bounce Festival – @ Belden, California – $75 for 3 days for advanced ticket sales, more at the gate

Every Tuesday – Live monome breaks set with Black Rock City All Stars @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno – $Free

Every Wednesday – chilled/IDM breaks DJ set @ Amendment 21, 425 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada – $Free

More dates and shows to come soon.

Big thanks to Matrixsynth

I have actually been a fan of the matrixsynth website for a while, and today discovered they had a twitter account via another friend, so started following them.

Next thing I know they posted a quick feature on my leather bound monome on their site!

Totally awesome, so just wanted to say a big thanks for the feature guys, that made my day.

If you like your synths and sound toys a little bit off the wall, then their website is a really good place to keep up with what’s out there, so check them out at: matrixsynth

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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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

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