Here is a newly edited video with S.E.T.I. ambience and noise from the gig last year in Germany. This extract is from 'The Fuschia' video which was made as a visual backdrop for S.E.T.I. gigs.
Runaway is a 130 bpm track which uses an old track created in Cubase mixed with new elements in Live 5. The switching in and out of elements within the track was done on-the-fly.
I Show Good Bit is my first experiment with Ableton Live 5, mixing various beats and samples from my collection. It uses voices from Apollo 13, the Space Shuttle and beats/sequences from Reason 3.
Originally a French project called 'Twelvomatic' which involved 12 different artists (Scanner, S.E.T.I., Merzbow, Illusion of Safety, Asmus Tietchens, John Duncan etc). Each artist gave one minute of sounds to a sound bank/library, which we then mixed into a 60 minute album each. My album was going to be the first in the series but the originating label went down in 2003/4. Cover here
This version of the track from 'Prismatic' was made for live performance using only the Roland MC50mkII Sequencer, Roland JV1080 synth and EMU Morpheus synth. The track was first performed this way in Kyoto's Metro Club, Japan in 1996.
My 'Knowledge' album, under the name 'S.E.T.I.', has now become available for preview & download here.
Also at the same site is the 'Above Black' album, made almost entirely from space sounds. This album was inspired by the book of the same name by Dan Sherman, who used to work for the NSA. More info on the book here.
After such a great gig in Wroclaw, everything computer-related went downhill very fast. My laptop had been exhibiting strange behaviour before I went to Poland, so I was backing up data every time I changed a track in Reason. The day after I returned from Poland the internal hard drive went bye-bye. I lost a lot of my programs and data but luckily had all of my Refills and tracks backed up, along with music work. Had to pay a large wedge for a new drive and spent a few hours last night installing it. Thanks to the wonderful
Pbfixit
, and Superspares on Tooting High Street (!) who sold me a Torx 6 driver, I'm now typing this from my revitalised machine.
The bad was tempered somewhat by a nice surprise from Kurt Kurasaki. Namely, my copy of Power Tools for Reason 3, which he wrote. The cd within includes a track in Reason format by yours truly called 'Mocean Beats'. You'll need the most up-to-date version of Reason (currently 3.0.4) to play it back.