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Live improvised session (ipad only)

By Perplex On on November 16, 2014 7:14 pm


A friend asked me to prepare a small live session for his party yesterday. Since i wanted to do it with the least possible effort i made the experiment to do it on ipad only and for most parts improvised. One part was spontaneous improvised stuff with live sampling of a toy music box, toy robot, voice and a buddha machine and the the other part were small sketches i made with SAMPLR together with some beats with seekbeats. Not to forget my new volca bass. Since it was for a party i tried some more "for the floor" focused stuff, therefore it's a bit techy. And since i am a fan of small setups i was happy to see everything did fit into one shoebox smile

- iPad
- Korg volca bass
- Akai EIE
- Zoom H2
- Korg NanoKontrol
- BuddhaMachine
- Robot toy
- Cables etc.



Apps used:

- Samplr
- Seekbeats
- DM1
- Turnado (for various master fx)
- Echo Pad (for the incoming volca bass on a seperate input channel)
- Beatmaker2 (only for compressing the output a bit and sidechaining the incoming volca bass to the beat)



I recorded the whole session and cut out some snippets for you. Shure the mix isn't good and it's mainly a sequence of sketches but all in all it was great fun to do something live again and being not tooo prepared. I used to be (and still am) absolutely frightend of playing live and therefore tended to prepare everything meticulously.

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Mate, those sketeches are wonderful. Wish I could hear the whole set. Kudos for taking your extremelly careful techniques to a live enviroment. I'm really impressed because we share some equipment and tools, but I would be clueless if I have to do what you're accomplishing here. I really have to start using Samplr and think outside of the box (I'm still stuck in fingerdrumming with and MPC)

By the way, I posted some kind of homage to your work, but it's raw and unfinished... Anyway, have a quick look, and I hope you could hear the definitive result in a few days smile

Peace

Wow, there are a lot of great music in this mix. Most impressive!
Also thanks for a very interesting look at how you set up for a live performance.

These are really great--lots of variety, fine beats, evocative atmosphere...all the good stuff.  I'd gladly check out the whole set.  Well done, and thanks for posting the rig details, too--very elegant!

Fantastic, thanks for sharing your setup, also enjoying the volca's

very impressive sir. i wish i could be that expressive and creative live. thanks for sharing!

Plantrain wrote:

Wow, there are a lot of great music in this mix. Most impressive!
Also thanks for a very interesting look at how you set up for a live performance.


you're very welcome! Thanks a lot for stopping by!

onezero wrote:

These are really great--lots of variety, fine beats, evocative atmosphere...all the good stuff.  I'd gladly check out the whole set.  Well done, and thanks for posting the rig details, too--very elegant!


thank you so much! well the whole set isn't really more exciting than the snippets, but maybe i will elaborate the one or the other sketch. Kind regards

colorful grey wrote:

very impressive sir. i wish i could be that expressive and creative live. thanks for sharing!

Jason Nijjer wrote:

Fantastic, thanks for sharing your setup, also enjoying the volca's

Thanks a lot dear wb fellows!

Sick for such small tools!

Man, this is awesome in so many ways. My favorite track is the 5th cut (I think, near the middle just before it goes into a stomping 4/4 groove), but I love everything about it, including the fact that your setup fits in a shoebox smile

Again, like when you posted that jam from the studio, I have so many questions! big_smile
Am super interested in how electronic music can be done live these days. It's been years since I played out myself, so hugely inspirational to see this!

Once the last Weeklybeat is done this year and things settle down a bit, I hope I can get a chance to talk with you a bit more about how you put this kinda thing together wink

Sub Delay wrote:

Man, this is awesome in so many ways. My favorite track is the 5th cut (I think, near the middle just before it goes into a stomping 4/4 groove), but I love everything about it, including the fact that your setup fits in a shoebox smile

Again, like when you posted that jam from the studio, I have so many questions! big_smile
Am super interested in how electronic music can be done live these days. It's been years since I played out myself, so hugely inspirational to see this!

Once the last Weeklybeat is done this year and things settle down a bit, I hope I can get a chance to talk with you a bit more about how you put this kinda thing together wink

I would be really happy to stay in contact after weeklybeats anyway, so yes, feel free to ask anytime!

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