from Ander for your ears
Finally. Station is working. After two years of development the first show with my new controller. A rather small set of material put together in little time, but a nice photo to go with it. Check out my latest live set from last Friday: Download the show or go and listen on my page on audioasyl.net.
But now it’s on Friday. Check out my latest live set from last Friday: Download the show or go and listen on my page on audioasyl.net.
As you might have noticed I do not play my show on audioasyl on the first monday of the month anymore. Instead, the next show (and the following ones, too) will be from 9 to 11 each third friday of the month. So listen and tune into the weekend this friday on audioasyl.net.
This monday I had a show together with microcat, broadcasting live from Rennweg, Zurich to audioasyl.net. Hope your enjoyed it, we certainly did. Download the show or go and listen on my page on audioasyl.net.
Hehe, this video is pretty neat. Watch it and hear the Zurich trams with different ears afterwards (video by Luc Gut).
On Monday I did my first show after the summer break. A bit rough, admittedly, but with lots of new material. Download the show or go to my page on audioasyl.net.
Remember the big box of bags of parts? The last two weeks I spent my afternoons and nights putting them all together. Halfway through I stopped counting and became one with my soldering iron. One short visit into mass production land is enough for me, the next batch (if there will ever be one) will be outsourced to mindless robots. But now I have all my circuit boards ready. This is going to be one mean mother of a MIDI controller. The only thing that I still need to wait for is the case. Then we’ll be talking.
Since I will be riding on a Vespa through little picturesque greek villages on Monday afternoon there will not be any broadcast for August. The next show on audioasyl.net will be in September.
Here we go with another show: July’s show from audioasyl.net as download or on my page on audioasyl.net.
Tonight I am going to participate at the Sonic Wargame performance in Rote Fabrik in Zürich. Since yesterday, the Pool Loop Festival is exploring new ways of using selfmade electronics for contemporary art and music. Solder iron meets surf techno, or something like that. The game itself is still a bit a mystery to me, but it sounds like fun. Four teams make music, including sampling their opponents. Via a voting system the audience gets to hear only one party at any given time. Should be a very good test for my live performance skills. Well, come and see it. You can also solder your own noise devices in the DIY Musical Hacklab from the people of SGMK. I can really recommend it, its fun and my electronics journey started with one of these workshops. You get addicted really quickly.
UPDATE: I won! At least the last round of four. Not the others. Enormous fun anyway, I can really recommend it to any live performer. Altough I do not think that the audience gets what is really going on (I didn’t, either), I enjoyed every second of it. Putting live music performance in a game situation is quite demanding for the musician, although I think that most of the points I made were thanks to my skilled operator.
