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Nanoloop composition

ken — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:01:03 +0000

I’m a big fan of Nanoloop, both the iPhone app version and the GBA hardware version. This composition is just downright impressive.

Four Tet and the Tenori On

ken — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:41:35 +0000

Kinda makes me want one.

Korg iElectribe

ken — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:00:41 +0000

Great, another reason I’m going to want an iPad.

New gear

ken — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:13:02 +0000

Trying out a little something new. More to come.

* PS – sampling is much harder than it looks.

Unleash 2010 counter mixes

ken — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:05 +0000

One thing I enjoy about Unleash is the fact that I get to make two 10 minutes mixes for the message counters. For this year’s mixes I went with the following:

Counter 1
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (feat. Hope Sandoval, Gui Boratto Remix)
autoKratz – Always More
BT – Suddenly (Celldweller Mix), from These Hopeful Machines

Counter 2
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (Mingus Rude edit)
RJD2 – Let There Be Horns (from Colossus)
BT (a selection from) “These Hopeful Machines” (B Side)… around the 25:50 mark

Previous year’s mixes here and here.

nanoloop track 0b

ken — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:00:05 +0000

This little 8-bit experiment was created and live performed directly in Nanoloop on the Game Boy, captured in Garageband, and sweetened a little with a pad from Argon (iPhone synth).

Nanoloop-0b by avclub

Nanoloop for iPhone

ken — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:47:56 +0000

So I’ve been toying with Nanoloop on a Gameboy for a few months and have found it to be a very satisfying 8-bit musical experience. Today I learned that it has been released as an iPhone app. If you’re interested in 8-bit/chiptune music I would recommend checking it out.

Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom

ken — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:05:35 +0000

New video from Massive Attack. I’m just stunned, so amazingly beautiful. And the amount of detailing that must have gone into this piece is astounding.

Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.

Dance party

ken — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:08 +0000

So, we had a little dance party at the Wilson house this weekend. That was fun.

Let the 8-bit begin

ken — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:34:23 +0000

Today the nanoloop cartridge arrived. Last week the GBA showed up. Now I spend some time attempting to synthesize a musically valid song on a Gameboy. Why am I doing this?

Because it’s there.

Richard Devine playing the DBeat

ken — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:02:40 +0000

Repeat to yourself “the monome is still relevant, the monome is still relevant.” Then watch Richard Devine demonstrate the tactile environment of Open Lab’s DBeat. Amazingly fun.

acoustic

ken — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:22:00 +0000

Forget electronics, let’s do something like this.

Diego Stocco – Dissonant Echoes from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

edison

ken — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:17:19 +0000

dang.

edison – tonka truck from edison on Vimeo.

iPhone audio organism

ken — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:15:26 +0000

You may “get this,” you may not. You may think it’s just plain weird. But it’s quite interesting. The iPhones process an audio signal input, then react off of one another. Musically valid or not, I appreciate concepts that are way out of the box such as this. Fascinating.

Dub FX – live beatbox mix

ken — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:00:12 +0000

In the utmost of live looping and creativity I really dig this track from Dub FX. (head’s up, it is hip-hop and will probably have some NSFW language). But what mastery of beatboxing, looping, effects, and general musical flow.

Wouldn’t you say this is the epitome of white guy hip-hop?