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purplebird7
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 18 Location: Nebraska
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject:
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Here are a few songs, most of which I played at the 2010 Kansas City Electronic Music Festival. Thanks for listening in to the live stream. All of us performers appreciated your online presence. We were always aware that you were there.
The whole set uses a Nord Modular (first generation) keyboard, Future Retro 777 analog synthesizer, Jomox X-Base09 analog drum machine, and Korg ES-1 sampler to generate sounds, plus a Boss delay pedal for effects. A Roland MC50mkII sequences everything.
The song Hope utilizes a spliced sample of Hindu devotional music from a Lonely Planet CD. This beautiful song had a strange time signature with seven beats per measure and alternated from a downbeat to an upbeat on every other measure, making it difficult to loop! (I ended up cheating and inserting a beat of silence to make it 8 beats per measure.) I do not know what the words of the song mean, but I added a vocoded part of my own toward the conclusion of the song. To me, the message is that all religions seek the truth, and we will not know why anything is as it is until the end of our lives.
The song Monster is a humorous commentary about the effect of technology and automation on our lives. We no longer deal with people directly. Where is the humanity in our daily interactions? Yet, we enjoy the speed and anonymity of this new style. In other words, we are responsible for what we have wrought, good or bad.
The song KC keeps with the mood of that great Midwestern metropolitan area, Kansas City, which is in both the states of Missouri and Kansas. This lively city has a tradition of blues and soul music. This song uses Hip Hop Acid Loops from their old DJ series. It was a lot of fun to make.
The song Vegetarian was written for a performance of a 2007 festival in Lincoln, Nebraska that celebrated both electronic music and vegetarian food. It was named V.E.A.L. (Vegetarian Electronic Arts Lifestyle) by its promoter, who played a big Moog modular synthesizer and a Theremin at the event. A Japanese artist conducted a symphonic group, and a modern dance group performed, too.
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mrcold
Joined: Jun 18, 2009 Posts: 187 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:59 am Post subject:
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sweeeeet
by the way... You ROCKED in KC!
/me sees everyone roboting |
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purplebird7
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 18 Location: Nebraska
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:16 am Post subject:
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Thanks, Cody. It was great fun playing for you guys. Next year, colored lights and a fog machine? JK. |
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kkissinger
Joined: Mar 28, 2006 Posts: 1353 Location: Kansas City, Mo USA
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:30 am Post subject:
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Your set in Kansas City was great. Hope to hear many more! _________________ -- Kevin
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mosc
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Joined: Jan 31, 2003 Posts: 18195 Location: Durham, NC
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MusicMan11712
Joined: Aug 08, 2009 Posts: 1082 Location: Out scouting . . .
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:53 pm Post subject:
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Thanks for sharing these--they rock!
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purplebird7
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 18 Location: Nebraska
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:10 pm Post subject:
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I'm so glad you like them. I wondered how my music would fit in at a primarily ambient and experimental music festival. I qualified as the "variety act!" No matter what I do, every time I sit down to compose, when the Muses come to call, they are wearing dancing shoes. That was the fun thing about the festival, everyone had something unique to offer. |
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D.MiƱoza
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Joined: Jun 15, 2009 Posts: 376 Location: CowTown, USA
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:33 pm Post subject:
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purplebird7 wrote: | Next year, colored lights and a fog machine? JK. |
and a couple marshall stacks for cody, kevin and me _________________ *****************
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blue hell
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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:06 pm Post subject:
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listening to the vegetarian synth invasion on the radio now, nice! _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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