Nice live performance, nice feelings!

Yesterday, I played my latest live performance at Théâtre National de la Criée in Marseille.
It was a very nice set and I think people appreciated it.

The official/unofficial Protofuse‘s manager was there: BIG thanks to Lucien de Baixo for his precious & infinite help !
He took some photos & I’ll post them asap here.

BIG Thanks to my other friends Denis, Ilaria, Jonathan & Guillaume I didn’t even talk with because of the busy mood of this evening !

I also want to thank :
- Christian Sébille & Sarah Olaya, respectively Director & Artistic Producer from GMEM, to have invited me & for all things we’ll make in the future (!)
- Radio Grenouille, to have interviewed me around my work & technology (on the podcast soon)
- Théâtre de la Criée, to have provided me a nice place to play.

Asap, the podcast url & the pictures !

Strange & new setup for my close next music live performances

Explorations HAVE to be made on a real exploration mode.
You can decide to explore this or that forrest, ok, but if you want to walk close of the tree #12, then the #14, then the 143 etc you aren’t exploring, you are .. like .. working and in any case, you’ll bore yourself in a very deterministic way.

I decided to explore as protofuse, and not to determine the path before as an a priori
And it comes with some dead end, and lost moments but never really lost.

These little sentences are just about analogies with my musical explorations.
Indeed, it is light, and I could probably write a whole book about that. Maybe it will come.

I have been invited to a festival named Les Musiques by the GMEM.
You can read this about this event.
The official Theater page is here

I decided to use a very new & fresh setup for this particular event.

The hardware
I’ll use my BCR2000, the best & solidest rotary encoders machine EVER.
I never found one lighter, solider, cheaper that the BCR2000.
All knobs job will be done with it. I need knobs under my fingers for volume, fx tweaking etc.

I’ll use my monome for all toggling control.
Probably, I’ll use it to control the clips grid in Ableton Live.
I’m using it with a Python script I made a long time ago specifically for this use.
With it, I can scroll, trigger anything.
It could also be replaced by Touchable  or LivKontrol on my iPad.

Why both mentionned ? Because I didn’t choose yet.
I need a light & efficient application ONLY for clip triggering and it seems that Touchable became a bit too big by making everything which, as a digital artist but a programmer too, makes me afraid a bit.

I could also come one day with my own Ableton Live iOS application which would be totally dedicated to clip triggering, clip looping etc.
Btw, it isn’t the point here.

The software
Ableton Live for all the live stuff.
As usual, I’m composing almost everytime a new liveset.
Today, in the afternoon, I found my new way.
The one which inspires me the most.

I have, in white, rhythmic stuff.
4 first tracks are routed to DRUMS one.
I like to tweak only rhythmic parts, letting the others not tweaking.
It provides a nice way to break, but to tweak slightly too, letting parts almost independant if it is required.

The track 5 isn’t really used but is often for the bass.
Orbital sounds is my title for anything related to pads, ambient & atmospheric soundscapes.
Orbital could be a reference to a group but it isn’t at all, here.
Micro sounds is my name for anything related to noise systems.

Those titles are very subjectives. They make me feeling well and I know what kind of sound is where.

The tOOL.
Used almost only in studio, I decided to manage complex structures using some Reaktor machines on a side, and to samples some parts for performances purpose.
The way HAS to be flawless & flexible.
I need to focus only on sound when I’m composing so, using that way, I’m fast to create, & integrate into my “real” tracks for stage in seconds!

This next live
I hope you like noises & clunks!
You won’t be disappointed if you do. Else, you’ll cry, which can be odd, but if you cry loud, it could add some strange textures (but please don’t do that)

I could modelize this next performance as

“a strange travel into electronic territories with atmospheric rotating sounds, unfiltered noises all over odd rhythmics”

It will yell from the sound system
You don’t have to be afraid but it will be loud.

If you like crunchy noises, you’ll have it.
If you love smooth ethered pads & atmospheric textures, you’ll be in trance (not related to trance goa, mates)

Intrigated? Then come!
Disappointed? Then, come too, there will be beer to drink, drunk mate!

Because I still didn’t finish even really began myUniverse, I won’t have a lot of visuals to show.
So, I asked to a couple of friends artists to provide me one of their creation.
I hope they will do that.
Else, I’ll plug something nice in the VGA bus.. don’t worry.

Music performance scheduled on May the 15th

In the great National Theater of La criée, I have been invited by GMEM to perform live.

This time, your ears will hear my really really (nervous) IDM.
I hope you are not afraid and are opened to new sound experiences

It will happen on May the 15th around 9:30 PM
The Facebook event is here https://www.facebook.com/events/281294878624714/

Digital Collisions 1.0

NOW ON APP STORE FOR IPHONE & IPOD & FOR IPAD

OFFICIAL FAQ

Just after mobile particles 1.0 has been APPROVED by Apple, I submitted this other one.
I may be in a huge creative mood way these days.

Already featured on MATRIXSYNTH & SYNTHTOPIA & DISCHORD & MUSIC RADAR & iOSNOOPS, I’m very happy that you appreciate my apps.

Check Jordan Crudess‘  video (thanks to him, he made that video, not me)

Digital Collision is a unique sound generator based on physics collisions algorithms.
It can produces real nice sound textures from the most clear to the weirdest granular.
The sound engine is a polyphonic tone generator.

It is the second application designed by Julien Bayle (known as protofuse on the digital electronic music scene)

Touch the screen to create particles.
Each particle lives its own life, making sounds while bumping walls or meeting the other particles.

By clicking on Menu, you can control particles lifes & sounds.

Zen defines the quietness of particles.
Autogeneration is a special mode where particles are generated automatically, sometimes.
Birth defines the amount of automatically generated particles in Autogeneration mode.
Delay Amount is the percentage of delay fx, Time is the length of the delay,Feedback is the percentage of output sent back inside the Delay, Symmetry is the most strange parameter involving stereo disorientation.
Filter Freq control the center frequency of the global BandPass filter & High Notes is the Highest Note produced (MIDI notation)

You have to test the Noise.

It produces an unique & nebulous collision soundscape & you can control the amount of nebulosity.

Festival Les Musiques 2012 / Marseille

I have been invited by the structure named GMEM (Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Marseille) to play one music live performance at the festival named Festival Les Musiques 2012 in Marseille.

I’ll play a one hour music live performance w/ visuals probably.
I planned to provide both side from ambient to more rhythmed soundscapes.
I would probably use my iOS/iPad tool live.

This event will happen on May, the 15th at La Criée (Théâtre National)

I’m happy about that first collaboration with GMEM.
We were in touch since several months, and as usual, this is a particular event which makes us collaborating and concretizing something together.

Here is the Press Kit for that event:

Festival Les Musique 2012

Studio Pankow – Ruhleben

Enjoy the travel…

my latest ep has been released !!

Hi friends,
I wanted to present you my last ep named bits#10

It consists in the last part of the BITS triptychs and close that journey into minimal dark electronic territories.

It will be on iTunes, Amazon MP3 quite soon.
Now, you can support my creation & life has a full time musician & developer by choosing a price on bandcamp

Scroll a bit, and listen

Cex – At Least I Can Say I Tried

Just listened this.
I like it.

And you?

Autechre – Rotar

again, I can say I love it.
I especially like how the sounds are separate between this epileptic rhythmic & the progressive evolving sounds with long attack..

enjoy!