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Frantic Party Mix (FrantaBit Pedal Review....)

Frantic Party Mix (FrantaBit Pedal Review....) from Rodrigo Constanzo on Vimeo.

"FrantaBit bit-crushing pedal in a review turned into techno jam....

Shot and edited by Angela Guyton

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Live at the Graham Foundation, Madlener House, Chicago, IL, March 10th, 2012 ; presented by Lampo.

Update: the original video for this post (via kwf on Vimeo) appears to have been removed from Vimeo. Above is a playlist of the event from seijinlee on YouTube.

"KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN
SAT MAR 10 8pm
Graham Foundation
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place

At long last, Keith Fullerton Whitman makes his Lampo debut. To mark the special occasion, he offers the U.S. premiere of "Rhythmes Naturels," created at the legendary INA-GRM studios, plus a live modular synth improvisation.

Alors, last October Whitman spent a week in Paris, commissioned to develop a new piece for François Bayle's Acousmonium, an 80-speaker sound system designed in 1974 for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. Pierre Schaeffer formed GRM, a studio and collective, in the late 1950s to encourage the development of electronic music. Members included Luc Ferrari, Iannis Xenakis, Bernard Parmegiani, among other lions; in the late 1960s Bayle became its director. For a whelp like Keith, the residency was "a life-long dream come true." And, he says, "The piece turned out exactly as I hoped."

Here, he'll do his new work in a 4-channel mix. Here, he talks about the residency, etc.

Keith Fullerton Whitman (b. 1973, Bergen County, N.J.) is a composer and performer obsessed with electronic music, from its mid-century origins in Europe to its contemporary worldwide incarnation as digital music. Currently he is working towards implementing a complete system for live performance of improvised electronic music, which incorporates elements from nearly every era. He has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drone, drill and bass, musique concrète and krautrock. He has recorded and performed using several aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski. Today most of his work is recorded under his real name. Whitman lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

Eardrill Sequencing

YouTube Uploaded by djangosfire on Mar 19, 2012

"An analog 'sequencer patch' I came up with using mostly Eardrill Modules.

The patch is a quick demo to show it's possible to use an Eardrill "Slew" ModuleModule as a basic voltage source. This was done by patching the the Slew Out into it's In - then "jump-start" the feedback loop using an outside voltage (in this case, I used the Dlfo).

Once you have a steady voltage, you can send/split it to a bank of attenuators (I used a Verbos 254v this this time) for "tunable sequencer stages" - which are in turn sent to an Eardrill "Source Selector" module.

Now add the Pendulum Ratchet as a clock source, and you have a fully functional 4x step analog sequencer with loads of patch programmability.

One other thing I did for fun, was use a Buchla 255 as a pre-set bank of sequence transposition voltages."