As part of NZ Music Month I was invited to play in the Dunedin Public Library. Because I love libraries, and this one (a marvellous concrete construction) in particular, I jumped at the chance! And of course I'm generally obsessed with the idea of playing electronic music live.
Cue a month or so of fervent anxious work getting a set together. Because this was a 20 minute slot, I felt that I could pull out all the stops and make this as complicated as I wanted. Over the last wee while I've been making lots of little loops so I had a bunch of material to play with.
The first time through (I had two slots booked - a Sunday morning and a Thursday after work), I had a technical problem, and had to play a (boring old, not even live mate) DJ set instead. In the intervening time I dusted off a custom nodejs websockets OSC UI thing to replace the bits that didn't work (studiomux providing OSC-over-lightning cable). This worked great, turning the iPad into a wireless pattern-trigger controller.
On the laptop I used SuperCollider as a MIDI pattern sequencer and also to play back texture samples. This all fed into Logic Pro X where the synthesis, effects and mix happened (with lots of params assigned to hardware knobs).
Here's the recording - great background music for reading perhaps? Hope it's as much fun to listen to as it was to put together :)
Tracklist:
- Like So (live dub)
- Maenyb (live dub)
- Nevozo (live dub)
- Janura Crossing (live dub)
<img src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7451/27320435955_4a98faddb3_k.jpg" alt="Haszari Live at the Library">
As part of NZ Music Month I was invited to play in the [Dunedin Public Library](http://www.dunedinlibraries.govt.nz). Because I love libraries, and this one (a [marvellous concrete construction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin_Public_Libraries#City_Library)) in particular, I jumped at the chance! And of course I'm generally obsessed with the idea of playing electronic music live.
Cue a month or so of fervent anxious work getting a set together. Because this was a 20 minute slot, I felt that I could pull out all the stops and make this as complicated as I wanted. Over the last wee while I've been making lots of little loops so I had a bunch of material to play with.
The first time through (I had two slots booked - a Sunday morning and a Thursday after work), I had a technical problem, and had to play a (boring old, not even live mate) DJ set instead. In the intervening time I dusted off a [custom nodejs websockets OSC UI thing](https://github.com/haszari/nosc-lib) to replace the bits that didn't work (_studiomux_ providing OSC-over-lightning cable). This worked great, turning the iPad into a wireless pattern-trigger controller.
On the laptop I used _SuperCollider_ as a MIDI pattern sequencer and also to play back texture samples. This all fed into _Logic Pro X_ where the synthesis, effects and mix happened (with lots of params assigned to hardware knobs).
Here's the recording - great background music for reading perhaps? Hope it's as much fun to listen to as it was to put together :)
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Tracklist:
1. Like So (live dub)
2. Maenyb (live dub)
3. Nevozo (live dub)
4. Janura Crossing (live dub)
