The show was great and visuals were incredible. If you are curious about the visuals and how they made them, checkout “Making How to Destroy Angels” video below. For even more info here is an article in Wired.
I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with Kevin Kissinger on four occasions at past Electro-Music events. He’s a great musician who plays synths, organ, and is known for his wonderful Theremin sets. Kevin is also into modular synthesizers and for this recent Electro-Music New Years live streaming concert he performed…
an improvised set on my modular synthesizer as part of the electro-music.com 10th annual New Years Eve streaming broadcast. This 7-minute video is a section of the set that could stand alone as a separate work.
A big congrats to Thomas Dolby who won the Moog Innovation Award award this year. Past winners were DEVO in 2010 and Brian Eno in 2011.
Dolby is a self made man, synth pioneer, and mad scientist. Like Bob Moog, Thomas Dolby’s quest for knowledge and desire to sculpt the world around him led him to the world of electronics, where he designed his own synths, founded his own software company, and charged head long through the world of pop music and into America’s consciousness. To say he was blinded by science would be doing him a disservice, for science has been his guiding light, and technology his namesake. For expanding the sonic boundaries of the new wave movement and for fearlessly embracing the future, Moog is proud to present Thomas Dolby with a custom Minimoog Voyager XL, in honor of being the 2012 Moog Innovation Award winner.
He’ll receive the award at Moogfest this year which is October 26th & 27th. I won’t be there so if you end up going take some photos :^).
US Tour – See You At the Denver Show Thomas Dolby is also touring the US to support his new album “A Map of the Floating City”. He'll be playing Denver on October 23rd at 8:00 pm at the Bluebird Theater. I’ll be at the show so if you come down say hi. Below is a screen shot of his upcoming tour dates. Visit his tour page to get tickets.
New Video for Song “Mulu” With Cool Quadcopter Shots
Here is the brand new video for the 1983 song “Mulu the Rainforsest”. I’ve always loved this track so it’s great to see a video for it after all these years.
Mark your calendars as the Summer Solstice 2012 Online Streaming Concert is this Saturday, June 23. Tune in to http://radio.electro-music.com for great music from 3PM - 3AM GMT/UTC.
For this Music Monday I’m featuring my live set from yesterday’s Halloween 2011 Online Streaming Concert over at Radio.Electro-Music.com. The 29 minute recording (CC-BY-NC) is a high-fidelity stereo capture from the stream in it’s entirety so get those studio headphones out or play on kick ass system!
Note that the intro was re-recorded later that day as I forgot to turn on the stream recorder till I was 45 seconds in – doh. The rest of the audio is from the actual stream with one edit to remove 30 seconds of dead air when I experienced a minor issue.
Set List:
1) "Welcome to the Inferno" Sound Design Cue from Inferno Haunted House (recording) 2) "Mad Carnival" Sound Design Cue from Inferno Haunted House (recording) 3) "Icy Caves" Sound Design Cue from Inferno Haunted House (recording) 4) "They Walk Among Us" from REBOOT (recording) 5) "I Can See Them" from the album I HEAR YOUR SIGNALS (performed live on Percussa AudioCubes) 6) "Before We Wake" from forthcoming album (performed ive on Theremin pitch-to-midi with AudioCube ) 7) "Dark Signals" from I HEAR YOUR SIGNALS (performed live AudioCubes, keys, Theremin, Tenori-On) 8) "Celebration and Voices" from I HEAR YOUR SIGNALS (performed live on Launchpad grid) 9) "Infected" from REBOOT (recording) 10) "Intercept Transmission" structured improvisation (performed live on Launchpad grid)
Thanks
Paul Harriman from Electro-Music who encouraged me to get involved with their online community and also pointed me in the right direction for tools in this regard. Paul you don’t know what you started – lol.
Jack Hertz for organizing the concert, creating a cool poster, for helping me to test my rig and for taking the time to teach me how to manage connections and hand-offs to electro-music’s ports.
Gregg Cannady who was kind enough to loan me a Theremin for the show as I broke mine just before the show (long story)
Notes on Studio Modifications for Live Streaming
On a technical note, this concert, and my audio/video broadcast from Boulder to the Pacific Northwest Synth Fest (talk and performance on Percussa AudioCubes) is the culmination of about 4 elapsed weeks of work to reorganize my studio space to accommodate this sort of performance. Part of that is investing the time to become very comfortable adding another layer of elements to manage while I perform live – so lots of rehearsal.
I’ve learned a lot about using a second system to push high-fidelity video through Skype, USTREAM, and a Shoutcast client. This includes ways to monitor my rig and the conversation in the same set of headphones. I’ll do a post on this in the future which should save you time if you want to get into this sort of thing.
For now, checkout this sound check video I did live to USTREAM. Watch the embedded video below or watch the video on USTREAM. I really get the lights going at 3:16 :^) I plan on doing a lot more live online performances so if you want to get notified sign up for my newsletter. I’m thinking about doing some behind-the-scenes videos for those who “Join the Crowd”
Happy Halloween!
With all that I’ll just wish you a safe and happy Halloween!
Mark Mosher Electronic/Experimental Music Artist, Boulder, CO Synthesist | Composer | Keyboardist | Performer
Howard Jones is playing a series of dates in North America this fall . On most of the dates, he’ll be performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums in their entirety. I’ve copied the basic info from his tour page and pasted it below.
I’ve copied the basic info from Howard’s site and posted it below. For the most up to date schedule and for tickets visit Howard’s official tour page.
13th Oct 2011
Cox Auditorium, Dixie State College, St. George, Utah Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums
USA
14th Oct 2011
The Music Box, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums
USA
15th Oct 2011
The Summit Music Hall, Denver, Colorado 80202 Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action album
USA
18th Oct 2011
The Flying Monkey, Main St, Plymouth, NH 03264 Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums
USA
19th Oct 2011
Irving Plaza, 17 Irvine Place, New York, NY Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums
USA
20th Oct 2011
Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums
USA
22nd Oct 2011
Walt Disney World, America Gardens Theatre, Epcot Theme Park, American Adventure Pavillion
USA
23rd Oct 2011
Walt Disney World, America Gardens Theatre, Epcot Theme Park, American Adventure Pavillion
USA
25th Oct 2011
Oakville Centre for Performing Arts, Oakville, Ontario Tickets onsale General 30/5/11 Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums Presale Password Special offer for Howard Jones Fan List: Only available by phone to our box office beginning Wednesday May 25 at 11am.
Canada
26th Oct 2011
Oakville Centre for Performing Arts, Oakville, Ontario Tickets onsale General 30/5/11 Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums
Canada
27th Oct 2011
Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL Tickets onsale 15/4/11 Performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums in full.
USA
28th Oct 2011
Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, New York
USA
I'll see you Denver and Boulder Howard Jones fans at the show this Saturday October 15th :^)
An FYI for my bay area, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale readers - my friends Robert Edgar and Jack Hertz will appear Friday October 14th at the Art Institute of California/Sunnyvale at 7:00 pm. Visit the Facebook page for more info. If you live in the area stop by and support this great series.
Mark Mosher Electronic/Experimental Music Artist, Boulder, CO Synthesist | Composer | Keyboardist | Performer
Duran Duran played a great show last night at the1st Bank Center in the Denver (suburb of Broomfield which is about 15 minutes from Boulder). To put it simply, the band sounded fantastic, Simon’s voice was strong, and the mix was fantastic and I could clearly hear all the players including Nick Rhodes’s synths. I was a bit far back, but it looked like Nick was playing the gear noted in this recent Keyboard Magazine article:
Stand 1:
Korg Microkorg
MOTU MIDI Timepiece
Roland V-Synth GT
Alesis A6
Stand 2:
Roland V-Synth GT
Kurzweil K2000
Prior to the show starting the twitter hashtage #duranlive was displayed and selected tweets were scrolled on the screen. Here was my stream with a few tweets and :^)
The set list was a nice mix of past hits and new material which the smartly peppered throughout the set. The new material sounded great and included tracks such as “All You Need is Now”, “Girl Panic!”, “The Man Who Stole A Leopard”, and “Leave a Light On” which they are promoting as their next single.
The band played about two hours and finished out the set with an encore of “Wild Boys” with a bit of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax” spiced into the break followed by “Rio”. Songs missing in action from the set were “Girls on Film”, and “Save a Prayer” but I’ve seen videos of them playing these this year so I’m sure with such a large catalog they rotate songs every night.
I took some photos with my iPhone 4 and placed them in a Flickr set.
There are plenty of tour dates left in the US and then they head off Brazil then the UK. If they are heading your way I recommend you check out this show as you’ll get to see a well rehearsed iconic band at the top of their game!
