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syndicated from The Secret Life blog
If not, you’re missing out something fierce.
From the illustrious Sebastian Tomczak comes Little Scale + Milkcrate.
These guys mod old game systems (Sega Master System, Genesis, Game Boy, etc.) into music making devices.
They have an ongoing project called Milkcrate:
Milkcrate is not a band or a particular group of people. Milkcrate adds a further set of constraints of space, time and materials to create music within.
The rules…
These rules are modular in nature; milkcrate sessions may have additional constraints, so long as they do not break the existing ones.
Check Little Scale out HERE.
Check out Milkcrate HERE.
They just put out 2 videos of their most recent Milkcrate sessions, as well as the downloadable audio.
Milkcrate 27 part1:
Milkcrate 27 part2:
Syndicated from:
The Secret Life blog
video of the city skies performance by rich & josh! whee!
Yours truly, threv, joined Jeremy Dickens (www.offnominal.com) and Secret Life bandmate Tricil (John Jacobus) at Kavarna in Oakhurst this past Saturday for the City Skies festival.
Hosted by the ever-smiling Jim Combs (jimcombs.com), it featured artists such as Richard Devine and Josh Kay (from Atlanta and Phoenecia), Collaboration with Sounds (from South Carolina), Don Hassler (from Atlanta), and Bribing The Buddha (from Atlanta).
Kavarna is an awesome little coffee/wine/sandwich shop in Oakhurst, which is a lot cooler IMO than Decatur, but whatever. Perfect little setup for a stage full of modular synths, a LEMUR, Tenori-On, Moogs, and macs-a-plenty.
We got there just as Collaboration with Sounds performed some noisy ditties w/her Moog Rogue & Macbook.
After she performed, Don Hassler tweaked a synthhead’s dream – an EMS Synthi A & Buchla Modular.
Closing out the night was Richard Devine & Josh Kay (of Schematic & Phoenecia) who jammed on a box of modular gear for about 1.25 hours. They projected Rich’s Reaktor patches on screen as Josh tweaked their modulars (heh, that’s what she said). Rich futzed around w/his JazzMutant Lemur, which was hooked up to Reaktor, as well as his Tenori-On.
most of the music of the night was self-similar, but you won’t hear us complaining. shit was dope, and overall an awesome night for live electronic music played by humans.
above: Don Hassler’s Synthi A & Buchla
all images thanks to Jim Combs (www.myspace.com/cityskiesfestival)
Hi there.
We’ve taken a seven month sabbatical from blogging, and now we’re back, with the new and improved State of Mind of the Arts Blog! To celebrate our return, we have something special for you.
Here is a video about what may be the most important drum break in the histroy of music, and at the very least, equally as important as Funky Drummer.
While the Winston Brothers may not be a household name, the Amen Break has entered pop culture history.
Enjoy!
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