junklight Set from Lines Community live event (10 May 2020)

Published on May 10, 2020 junklight

"The Amazing lines community put on a live event over this weekend & I took part. Got to say livestreaming is a lot more nerve-wracking when you *know* you have an audience :-)

I went with a more maximal setup to give me more options and places to go - and playing this back I realise I could have played for a lot longer. My do a few more sessions on this rig before tearing it down. Feels like I. could do with a hardware mixer too - push is nice but too much mode switching.

The modular is being driven using a Monome Teletype script that acts a bit like the Double Knott, Gesture Arcade setup -in this case using the TXi knobs to generate the patterns - buttons would be nicer but needs must.

The looping is driven entirely by my forthcoming app (I release software as "Pagefall" ) using only the "Fripp soundscaping" side of things although I've got rate quantisation turned on too which I thought worked nicely on the loops (although I was a bit heavy handed a couple of times switching rate - as I was on one of the piano notes at the end -nerves and hands shaking !!! :-) )

Thank you to the Lines community for running this and go and check out some of the other streams - there was so much good stuff being played."

Live music from junklight

Published on May 8, 2020 junklight

"Some improvised electronic music"

Waldorf XTk

Bandcamp Is Waiving Fees for Artists Today!

In case you missed it, Bandcamp is waiving artist fees for the day. This means 100% of any purchases made on Bandcamp today will go to the artist. If you were holding out on picking up some music there, today is the day.

A ton of our supporting members have releases on Bandcamp. Be sure to check them out on the member page here. You'll find links to their Bandcamp sites.

Thank you to everyone who supports the site! :)

P.S. You can also check out the SYNTH ALBUMS label for posts featuring releases over time.


Update: Below is a list of supporting member Bandcamp sites. Check them out! :)  P.S.  If you are a supporting member and have a Bandcamp site not on the list, feel free to send it in.  Email matrixsynth@gmail.com.  Note this is for supporting members of the site only!  It takes some work to do this and run the site, so this is a member perk only, sorry.  :)  That said, if you do want to support the site and you sign up I will of course add you to the list.

https://nomansisland.bandcamp.com

https://omricohencomposer.bandcamp.com

https://petermmahr.bandcamp.com/

http://greaterthanu.bandcamp.com

https://alfonse.bandcamp.coma

https://verstaerker.bandcamp.com/

https://junklight.bandcamp.com/

http://ngarjuna.bandcamp.com/

http://vicmodcray.bandcamp.com/

https://ianrichter.bandcamp.com/

https://jamesnewman.bandcamp.com/

https://axondefecto.bandcamp.com/

https://fizzingfunksters.bandcamp.com/

https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/snyth

https://timecontrolledorganism.bandcamp.com/

https://artificialnoise.bandcamp.com/

https://moognase.bandcamp.com/

https://magicandsteel.bandcamp.com/

https://parmusic.bandcamp.com/

https://nobotake.bandcamp.com/

https://themanitou.bandcamp.com/

https://chronosmusic.bandcamp.com/

https://circuit3.bandcamp.com/

https://lecorbeau-poisson.bandcamp.com/

Exploring Relabi with Monome crow , norns , ipad & modular

Published on Apr 30, 2020 junklight

"Relabi - the self erasing pulse! I've been a intrigued by the idea of this after reading this essay http://www.johnberndt.org/relabi/Rela... - escape from the grid and all that.

This week I've been exploring it - if you follow me on twitter then you'll have seen an audulus patch and the an early incarnation of what you see here. The Audulus patch migrated into the Monome crow and from there into the Norns where it is now driving 4 separate voices - two on the ipad and 2 in the modular - where the crow drives two Noise Engineering oscillators - the Sinc Iter and Cursus Iteritas using the envelope language built into the crow.

This setup shows why Monome gear has found a home at the heart of my music making equipment - the ability to build an instrument quickly and easily - this entire script was written just to explore these ideas - the grid gives me a lot of control over different paramters & crow lets me unite the ipad and the modular."

Improvisation with iPad, Norns & modular

Published on Apr 27, 2020 junklight

"This is the same setup as I used for the Lines community set last night but a calmer and more focused set."

Live music from junklight

Published on Apr 20, 2020 junklight

Live music from junklight

Published on Apr 18, 2020 junklight

Update: one more just went up: nice piece

Nijuman no Borei

Published on Apr 18, 2020 junklight

"Been meaning to upload this for ages and then I noticed my namesake had uploaded his version.....

Rescore of the very powerful film by Jean-Gabriel Périot called Nijuman no borei (200,000 phantoms) - the rescore was done for the Dark Outside and rather brilliantly the various versions were all projected onto a screen next to a river with headsets to listen to the soundtracks

you can see my namesakes take on it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiAVi..."

Live music from junklight

Published on Apr 16, 2020 junklight

Live music from junklight

Published on Apr 15, 2020 junklight

"Some improvised electronic music"

Soundscape with Islands & Cality

Published on Apr 13, 2020 junklight

"A bit of a 'software I've written' special this one - Islands running on the Norns and also Cality on the ipad - Also with Zeenon & Eventide blackhole...."

Live music from junklight

Published on Apr 11, 2020 junklight

"Some improvised electronic music

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/?ref=wq3w8"

Live music from junklight

Published on Apr 7, 2020 junklight

"Some improvised electronic music"

Live music from junklight

Published on Apr 3, 2020 junklight

"Some improvised electronic music"

junklight Live Stream

Published on Apr 1, 2020 junklight

"At least no dogs joining in today! been a busy day so just setup something simple. Been listening to lots of Andrew Chalk over the last few days because he's started uploading his stuff to bandcamp (check it out!) and also Bulbils - both are likely an influence."

a little soundscape with Islands for Norns

Published on Mar 17, 2020 junklight

"Made with the script for Norns I released at the weekend

https://llllllll.co/t/islands-0-1/30234

a multi-timbral FM engine played with Monome Grid"

Kria for Norns, Ipad (Zeenon, Aparillo, Quanta)

Published on Jan 29, 2020 junklight

"I made a new release of the MIDI version of the Kria sequencer I ported to Norns and thought I'd better give it a try out."

Improv with Keystep , Skulpt & Microfreak

Published on Jan 18, 2020 junklight

"Inspired by a few comments in the very enjoyable Mylar Melodies 'why we bleep' podcast with Adrian Utley"

Improvisation for Virtual Ans, Otis and Una Corda

Published on Nov 13, 2019 junklight

"I've not made much music of late - happy to let things gestate and present themselves when ready. However things are starting to brew!

This is part of an improvisation in preparation for a longer piece I'm working on - which hopefully will see the light on this channel soon"

an ambient groove - Modal Skulpt, Norns MLR , iOS Zeeon

Published on Sep 26, 2019 junklight

"I've been busy on other things & haven't made a video in a little while but watching Os from expert sleepers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNV8d...

& chords of Orion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppDeq...

doing live sets spurred me into action!"

simple things - Ioniarics , Meadowphysics , Aparillo, Zeenon, Eurorack

Published on Aug 22, 2019 junklight