Tag: live
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Modfest 5 at AudioFoundation
Now I’m in Auckland I finally get to go to AudioFoundation! I’ve been following this place with interest from afar. They put on interesting events, workshops, sounds, publish Soundbleed journal, and generally push the frontiers. Also they have supported some of my music on AFM 🍻 Modfest, now in its fifth year, is a collective…
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Combining elements live
One of the best things about DJing is combining elements from different songs. Working with DJ decks, you can only do so in a limited way – e.g. blend an intro and an outro, or layer a riff or acapella on top of another song. When I play live I want to combine elements from…
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The best live electronic act in the world
…is Chemical Brothers. I just got home from Electric Avenue festival in Christchurch and it was superb. The crowd was young and old; there were 4 stages of a wide range of music; the day was well organised and low stress overall. I thoroughly enjoyed myself all day, but the reason I went was to…
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Casual, minimal live jam tactics
Since getting home from my sabbatical, I’ve been working on my live set a lot. I feel like I have all the technical pieces I need – to play the live set I’ve always dreamed of. At Catalyst, I was travelling, and was “improvising” with a couple of small portable controllers that I brought on…
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Live set tactics: Bitwig
This post is all about how my live set works. Every time I do a live set, I throw out everything I’ve done before, pick a new platform, and build it all again. Even with the same songs. This isn’t what I intend to do, it’s just what ends up happening. Now I’m using Bitwig…