An even busier weekend this time, though I did commit to doing an hour-long performance Saturday morning as part of the GSG's Sturgeon Moon (raid) Train on Twitch. For events like this, performers sign up and claim one or more slots for a cascade of performances that lasts 24 hours or more. A few days after the announcement, I saw there were only a few available times left, including the last one on Saturday morning. So Saturday morning it would be!
The signal chain here is pedal steel guitar in E9 tuning, played with eBow and ebony slide, into a Reuss Effects RF-01 Repeater Fuzz, Vox Wah, Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe, and Moyo volume pedal, into an eight-delay Max/MSP patch I've been playing with the last several years. The patch is mainly eight delay lines, though also features a VST for tone-shaping (here AudioThing Reels), FFT pitch shift, a tremolo on the input, and a convolution reverb.
The title this week is chosen for a river in Ontario, crossed by Highway 606, and not far from some rivers and streams known for sturgeon.
Very busy week, including prep for a Max/MSP show with mic feedback, so this week's submission is one of the test runs through the Max/MSP patch, with guitar. Kinda ambling and chaotic.
.aiff file captured to the drive, then brought into Ableton for level correcting, a touch of convolution reverb, and Full-Chain Master. And there we have it.
Title from the discovery of liquid mercury under this temple in Teotihuacan
An extremely busy week of work, performance preparation, and performance, with ups and downs. Coming off a very satisfying snwv set with my new Max/MSP patch at Oscillate: Pittsburgh 2017, here's a quick improvisation with just a sine wave oscillator into the patch. I added a bit of reverb and full-chain master in Live, and cut out a longer part of the noisy waterfall section, but otherwise it's the result of this improv. Features of the patch: pitch-shifting, delay, delay regeneration, and sample-rate and bit-depth reduction, all of them randomized and continually updating. And the time between updates is itself randomized, for extra confusion. Title comes from previewing the piece for the kids, and talking about it after they listened.
