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 !

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/

Tech Café à Marseille ?

Hello à tous et surtout aux marseillais!

Je voudrais vous proposer des moments informels d’ open discussions autour des technologies que l’on utilise.
Pour ma part, on peut parler de:
- openframeworks & C/C++
- audio DSP
- arduino et arduino-like et électronique
- Pure Data & Max6
- Stratégie de développement agile pour sound applications sur  iOS
- Ableton Live / Max for Live / Reaktor et Sound design

mais aussi
- ambient music
- entrepreneurship moderne
- vie d’artiste digital
- zen coding
et + + +

L’EVENT est ici: https://www.facebook.com/events/353319924704264/

Si vous êtes intéressés, sachant que je bosse souvent à l’extérieur (café en ville, coins sympas), je peux vous proposer un time slot de 2h par semaine sur lequel vous venez, on fait connaissance, on teste, on bricole nos laptop etc.

L’EVENT est ici: https://www.facebook.com/events/353319924704264/

Openframeworks & ObjC & libPD for sounds application workshop?

Openframeworks is a really nice .. frameworks!
I’m actually using it with pure iOS SDK.

 + 

The combination of those two is very powerful.
Especially, to have access to low-level stuff with C/C++ routines AND to high-level view controllers & UI bits is a real advantage !

Maybe a workshop about that in Marseille could be nice
Should I book the little conference room in Alcazar for “OpenFrameworks & ObjectiveC’s iOS sounds application design patterns” workshop ?

Please let your comment en français or english !

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

Laurent interviewing me on his blog

Laurent Boghossian is a great friend and one of this guy who could build a world with 5 kg of sand only.
I already talked about him here, and I’m doing again today because he made and published an interview of me.

(if you cannot wait for reading my interview on his website, the link is .. a bit below )

I’m very moved by his words and he described very well how our both new lives have begun several months, years ago.

I’m inviting you to go there to read the interview entitled:

Design the media : Design your music like you’d like to design your life

 
I’m also inviting you to browse his blog 35nextyears.com
It is full of a lot of nice life design tips & tricks which can teach you a lot!

A nice interview by ADEMAIN.TV

This is just me talking about, en français pour une fois, my project temporarily named Mobile Drone Machine
This is a project I’m currently developing myself around iOS framework.

The official place of that video is: http://ademain.tv
BIG UP to Axelle Benaïch / Design the future Now !

I’m currently at the specifications & sketching step.
More infos soon et vous moquez pas de mon accent qui chante!

Old & expired polaroid shots

I hope you’ll like those ones.
The colors are very strange & uncanny (!)

NO photoshoped at all, pure chemical expired process inside those expired cartridge …
 

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