Category: solo work
some thing that I wish to play do not always play well with others.
Here is the solo electronic / percussion / whatever work I create by/for/perform as myself…sometimes using the alias / moniker “less”…
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Pad expression on live eDrum kit
Movitation I’ve been experimenting with playing live electronic drums for a while. For most e-kits that one can buy off the sales floor, I find there is limited expression for controlling the sounds while playing them, beyond using the dynamics of your hits to control volume, tonality, or switch between samples. I found myself wanting…
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composition from Novation Circuit boot-glitch(es)
Last week, my Novation Circuit booted up in a rather worrisome state. It was generating a flurry of random notes, even while stopped, and the lights were going bananas. A quick search found this video of someone else experiencing the same problem.: I tried power cycling repeatedly, but it didn’t help. The comment-thread on…
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video and insight of “Analogs to Nausea” at Oberlin TalberTronics Festival
TELL: My second live honoraria performance in the TalberTronics Festival at Oberlin College as “Analogs to Nausea,” a live synthesis/sampling re-interpretation of my audio hash-noise soundscape “GusTutorial v3” from “GusTation” to “GusTutorial” The sound-collage portion of this performance comes from back in 2010. While finishing my MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering at Drexel, a lab-mate gave me…
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video and insight of my “Repeater Slow” at Oberlin TalberTronics Festival
I got to perform some electronic music to honor the retirement of John Talbert, the professor who got me started. Enjoy videos here !
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Honoraria Performances at the TalberTronics Festival
It was an immense pleasure to head back to my alma mater Oberlin College to attend and perform at the TalberTronics Festival to honor the career and retirement of John Talbert from/within the Oberlin Technology in Music and Related Arts (TiMaRA) program. Background: I had spend my first three years finishing my BA in Psychology,…
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TalberTronics Concert 3 – “Repeater Slow” applause
At the end of my presentation/remix of Phil Raath’s drone track “Repeater Slow” as a rhythmic exercise of my modified MS1, I recorded the warm reception of our Oberlin TIMARA friends.
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Making a “groove tower” with flexible FX routing… a “MIDI Pile 1.0”
Motivation: For many years, I’ve been collecting various drum machines, samplers, and other DJ-stye groove-gear,” often using a piece here or there with my drum set. Gradually, I started connecting them together in various configurations, making some music-making Voltron’s. Since many of these devices can not only generate audio output, but also receive audio input…