- 2003-04-13 11:38:22 http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=3171
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2003-04-11 13:30:31
Well, I had my live show last night in Bellingham Washington, 130miles north, Not too much more and you'll hit Vancouver. It was an amazing drive by the way. The trip to Bellingham is beautiful, great for just listening to some Boards of Canada on the way. Soon it'll be destroyed by civilization anyway, so I took some pictures to freeze it in time.
At 6 PM, there was setup, so now is the time to mention what we all used.
Matt Russell (Amphibious), was using a Super Nintendo w/ Nanoloop (www.nanoloop.de) and a View Sonic 400mhz Pocket PC.
GuyPMerryll (same), using Reason 1.0
Ted (LocalHost), using...Winamp (I'll explain later)
Railboy, using Native Instruments Reaktor 3.03
[Mute] (comprised at that moment of 1 girl and 2 guys), using a Yamaha SY-22, an 8MM still photoviewer, and various Freeware pieces including PureDATA on my laptop.
Me(Factor 9), Renoise 1.65, Cubase SX, Reaktor 3 FX VSTi
So the show started off with GuyPMerryll's set, which was strongly reminiscent of Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works". To get a good description of it, the percussion was very off, but still held together, none of it really stuck to a time signature and was kind of random and the chords used an LFO based instrument which made them sound extremely dissonant. I personally loved the set, it was extremely dynamic and there was always something new to hear.
Next up, LocalHost. This is the guy who used Winamp, basically he said to us "This is my first show, I'm extremely nervous, so I'm just going to play them through Winamp". His stuff wasn't really that different, to me it sounded like gabber. The beats were very steady, changed every 8 beats, used modulated voices and reiterated 4 note lines of melody. I caught myself looking at the clock when he was on, but he'll get better.
Railboy was next up. Ok, Railboy owned those prior, hell, he owned me, though he didn't think so. Lets mix two artists, Bola and Autechre (if any of you know them). His use of glitched beats and melody was something I've never heard before in any artist. Dispite the latency error he experienced which caused his song to skip, the set went really well and I was very impressed.
I was next, this is where the problems start for the next two artists.
I got on and found out my Roland was sending an emmense amount of Feedback into the mixer that we didn't catch before, so my first piece was incomplete because I couldn't add in the piano, and we had to cut it off really fast at the end to inplug it from my computer. So the next song went by fine, Sometime Soon was my third song. The opening synth was very muddy and the bass took over and clouded out the melody, in my attempts to turn the volume down in Cubase, my soundcard cut out for half a second, so I had to cut down the DSP on the mixer >< the rest of the track went by just fine. Between the Essence was my third track, and I overloaded my soundcard yet again half way through...goddamn onboard <-- needs an external USB
Next up was Amphibous, the brains behind the show. His set was unique, not everyone performs using a Super NES and a pocket PC. You can check his stuff out at www.amphibious.net, where the live info will be posted later on.
Break time, and [Mute] came on last.
[Mute] is a really experimental group of artists that are reminiscent of the genre Drone, and the artist's V/Vm and Nurse with Wound. If you heard their stuff, it wouldn't be the same as if you were actually there. They performed a stage show, and it was possibly the most fucked up live performance I've ever seen. They used tons of ambient noise, including really high pitch squeals that send shivers up your spine (or make your ears bleed, depending on your tastes ), glitched out clicks and beeps, and a girl on a typewritter in the background.
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In the end, despite the technical problems with soundcards and Super NES' the show was tons of fun and will be online here soon for all of you who want to hear it and see it.
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2003-04-08 15:58:51
Two days til my show. FUCK YEAH!
I need to work on my actual live element tonight and tomorrow, and I'm good. I bought another quarter into to eighth inch adapter today, and some 9v batteries for my pedals. I need to work at getting the sound out of my short wave radio correctly...through the pedals...and get an MD mic, so I can get a live recording of that set...
I'm nervous...but that's normal...I've had my doubts of going...but that's normal as well.
I'm confident now. Thank you all that give me support :) This is my first step to what I want to do, I know I won't blow it :):) - 2003-04-03 15:34:16 Anneke, the user makes the videos, the system doesn't. I could respond in length to your entry, but it'd waste my time.
- 2003-04-03 10:07:13 Sakura con is in one more day...I think I have everything.
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