My live solo performances tend to be long and slow, and I have a strong bias
toward releasing whole performances - complete and unadulterated live sets.
Both Voiceband Jilt and the more recent solo release on Palace of Lights
Amalgam: Aluminum / Hydrogen are examples of that ethic in action. But they're
kind of long.
A little shortwave and a whole lot of Max/MSP....
aether/orchide
But who says that I can't do anything that takes less than an hour to traverse?
Here
is a two-minute scratchpad example of using LFO banks for generative purposes
I ran off for a tutorial I was writing for the
Cycling '74
website.
As a part of one of the periodic Vortex
get-togethers at
Mother Fools'
(one of the nicest places to perform in Madison), I dashed
off a brief and lighthearted homage to a recording that
remains on of my
guilty pleasures.
Precisely how reverent
this brief solo performance
may be is left as an exercise to the listener.
There are a half-dozen excerpts from longer
live performances in various places available as a part of the FLOOD series
from Palace of Lights here.
Also, here are some recent live sets that are of a more modest length, which I hope you'll enjoy.
My time at the annual Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art was a bit more exciting than I anticipated. Owing to
some circumstances well beyond anyone's control (including that um... blizzard), my collaborators Tom Hamer and
Mark Henrickson were unable to make it to Minneapolis, which meant that what began its life
as a trio performance turned instead into a solo set constructed with only a subset of my
usual materials. I was very fortunate that Luke Dubois was willing to sit in with me
and provide some stunning visuals (which are, sadly, not contained in this recording).
Spark_070224
Here's a live recording from a performance at Tulane University (who hosted the International Computer Music Association's annual festival/conference
in grand style) in November of 2006.
ICMC_Live_061110