First Norns | OP-1 + Monome Grid + Norns

Published on Sep 6, 2018 Lightbath

"This is my first try at using Norns with mlr. I played OP-1 into it and created four loops that I then animated using the pattern record function. I play directly with the speed mod parameter of REC 4 (the sustained note) to pitch it up and down and waver it a bit."

Soundscapes - Microfreak 3 and MLR

video by junklight

"It's been a weekend of experimentation and play on the music front. I upgraded the microfreak to get the superb new Noise Engineering algorithms. As you may have noticed if you watched earlier videos on this channel I really like the NE stuff and these additions to the Microfreak are no exception

For these soundscapes i started with an init patch although for the video I edited the initial 20-30 seconds of getting a starting sound out"

Day 202 / Getting Jeff's Bliptronome Set Up

Day 202 / Getting Jeff's Bliptronome Set Up from Charlie Visnic on Vimeo.

"For this creative thing I spent the evening with my buddy Jeff getting his computer set up to use the Bliptronome I assembled for him.

At the end of the evening we were messing around with some loops he had made in Reason with MLR.

Very disappointed with the reaction time of the Bliptronome. We could not get reliable 16th notes out of it. The fastest we could play consistently was 8th notes.

This is a short compilation of Jeff's Jam with his new loops.

This was my creative thing of the day for my creative thing a day blog at: theb-roll.com"

skinnerbox: iftah shows his new live setup

YouTube Uploaded by iftahbox on May 22, 2011

"took a while but its finally done, the sbx spaceship is ready! cliplauncher on the right monome, mlr clone + realtime step recording drums on the left monome, and on the middle an arduino based self built controller(still missing some caps for the potentiometers tho!). this is a very early demo, all done with live + max4live.

http://www.facebook.com/myskinnerbox"

Simple Things - MLR, Skulpt, Mr Hensons Piano

junklight

"I'm sure the noisy modular stuff will return soon"

The Galaxy Electric - Cosmic Tape Music - Improvised Modular Performance - A Guiding Light

Published on Jan 9, 2020 The Galaxy Electric

The Galaxy Electric - Cosmic Tape Music

"Thanks for listening! Come on a musical voyage with us where we'll send you a new song every day, a cosmic story, and a chance to earn space treasure: https://thegalaxyelectric.lpages.co/5...

Keep the rockets fueled:
https://www.paypal.me/thegalaxye?fbcl...

This is the second installment of a series of improvised modular synth performance mixed with pop elements - female vocals and mellotron.
These elements combined with a tempo synchronized looping technique provide a rich sonic landscape of cosmic texture inspired by the early electronic and tape music innovators. This music is especially inspired by Space Age era electronic music or cosmic tape music. The effects are spring reverb, delay and the occasional reversing and pitch shifting of the recorded phrase. Our goal is to combine analog and digital technology to recreate this early electronic music tonal variety in an improvised setting.

Equipment used:
Buchla Music Easel
Buchla DIY case
Buchla Clones: 266r Source of Uncertainty, 291r Dual Voltage Controlled Filter, 280r Quad Function Generator, 292c Quad Lopass Gate, 259r Programmable Complex Waveform Generator, 281h Dual Function Generator, 292h Dual Lopass Gate, LEM 3U Powered Boat, 280 Touch Activated Voltage Source
1979 Modular: Dual Algorithmic Oscillator, Digital Resonator, Stereo Microsound Processor
Eurorack: Koma Elektronik Field Kit, Erica Synths Pico EG and Pico Input, 4ms Dual Looping Delay and Row 30 Power, Mutable Instruments Warps, Synovatron CVGT1
Mellotron 4000D Mini
Roland RE-20 Space Echo Pedal
Pigtronix Infinity Looper
Onde Magnétique OM-1 Cassette Synthesizer
Monome Grid controlling MLR {re:mix Max for Live app}

Camera:
Apple iPhone X

The Galaxy Electric - https://www.thegalaxyelectric.com"

between seasons

between seasons from ioflow on Vimeo.

"ambient improvisation for monome norns, ipad pro, oto bim, oto bam. semigenerative melodies and percussion patterns. weather shifts. clear skies. warm days and cool nights.

melodies, pads, and bass: five instances of audio damage phosphor 2. the main pad sound is also playing from mlr on norns; three copies running at various speeds and directions, with one pattern recorder per copy.

percussion: three instances of audio damage axon 2.

ipad: kymatica AUM is the host for all the AUv3 instruments and effects. the rozeta sequencer suite is used extensively to generate melodies and chords: three instances of collider and two instances of particles, along with various LFOs and arps to further mutate patterns and ranges. ipad audio tracks use several instances of audio damage plugins: roughrider 2, dubstation 2, and grind.

ableton live is used as a mixer + recorder, and also to send the ipad's melodic tracks to and from the oto bim + bam desktop fx units.

recorded april 13, 2019."

ambient session with iPad and Norns MLR

Published on Jun 5, 2019 junklight

"Watching Hainbach's channel and listening to him talk about practicing improvisation to camera led me to sit down with this setup and see what happened.......

Inching closer to playing this kind of thing live (still need to find somewhere to actually play mind)"

playing on monome 256 and virus snow at fm lounge.

playing on monome 256 and virus snow at fm lounge. from kero on Vimeo.

"just a little jam out in windsor on the monome 256 and virus running MLR!"

failure of the year

failure of the year from edison on Vimeo.
"simple track utilizing mlr's preset function for change ups.... electric guitar, breaks, percussion and synth bass. kaoss mini set to loop. video version, the great richie simantic will be gracing this with some vocals....soon........papervehicle homie......sting!"

bright light warm light

bright light warm light from tehn on Vimeo.

http://monome.org

improvised performance by tehn. http://nnnnnnnn.org

https://soundcloud.com/tehn/bright-light-warm-light

new monome grid. two-tone aluminum and warm white light.

a list of additional objects seen:

monome meadowphysics
monome white whale
monome switch
mannequins mangrove (x2)
intellijel quadra
intellijel springray, large spring tank
parallelogram mlrv

initially the grid is controlling meadowphysics (scattered cross-influenced clocks) and then white whale (tone and trigger sequences). using the switch, focus is moved to the macbook where mlr is running. output from the modular is sampled, transposed, and looped in many layers. all tones from the two mangrove modules.

duskfall

duskfall from ioflow on Vimeo.

"experimental ambient. live performance for monome norns, piano, and juno 106 synthesizer.

a moment of stillness on the canyon floor. a bench just off the trail. the final minutes of autumn twilight. leaves rustling and crackling, a nuttall's woodpecker trilling, black phoebes chirping, the dwindling blur of traffic at the end of the day.

three piano melodies and juno 106 pads were recorded into norns and loaded into mlr, performed on the grid. the piano and synthesizer improvisations are played as-is, then layered, relooped, redirected, and reordered. in the background is the stereo field recording of that part of the canyon.

recorded november 9, 2018."

Launchpad PureData Step Sequencer

Launchpad PureData Step Sequencer from j4s0n c4s3y on Vimeo.

"Work in progress, 8 page x 64 step MIDI sequencer, built with PureData with an "mlr" like mode. It can be driven by internal timing, or a looping midi clip to match Live's tempo. Made to work with the Impulse drum machine in Ableton Live, but could be adapted for whatever... also, maybe next I'll add clip-sequencer mode for some super choppy break biz, without needing robotic fingers. ;)"

Terraza

YouTube via evenfloyd | July 17, 2010

"Playing on the roof.

M4L
Launchpad = monomeemu + mlr aes 0.4
iPad = TouchOSC"

iPads on Ebay

bleached

bleached from tehn on Vimeo.

"monome teletype generative patch, driven by meadowphysics and walk, processed by mlr. all sound from two mangroves and a three sisters.

http://monome.org"

The Galaxy Electric - Cosmic Tape Music - Improvised Modular Performance - Into the Unknown

Premiered Jan 2, 2020 The Galaxy Electric

Also see Buchla Cosmic Drone Sessions by The Galaxy Electric

"Thanks for listening! Come on a musical voyage with us where we'll send you a new song every day, a cosmic story, and a chance to earn space treasure: https://thegalaxyelectric.lpages.co/5...

This is the first installment of a series of improvised modular synth performance mixed with pop elements - female vocals and mellotron.
These elements combined with a tempo synchronized looping technique provide a rich sonic landscape of cosmic texture inspired by the early electronic and tape music innovators. This music is especially inspired by Space Age era electronic music. The effects are spring reverb, tape delay and the occasional reversing of the recorded phrase. Our goal is to combine analog and digital technology to recreate this early electronic music tonal variety in an improvised setting.

Equipment used:
Buchla Music Easel
Buchla DIY case
Buchla Clones: 266r Source of Uncertainty, 291r Dual Voltage Controlled Filter, 280r Quad Function Generator, 292c Quad Lopass Gate, 259r Programmable Complex Waveform Generator, 281h Dual Function Generator, 292h Dual Lopass Gate, LEM 3U Powered Boat, 280 Touch Activated Voltage Source
1979 Modular: Dual Algorithmic Oscillator, Digital Resonator, Stereo Microsound Processor
Eurorack: Koma Elektronik Field Kit, Erica Synths Pico EG and Pico Input, 4ms Dual Looping Delay and Row 30 Power, Mutable Instruments Warps, Synovatron CVGT1
Mellotron 4000D Mini
Roland RE-20 Space Echo Pedal
Pigtronix Infinity Looper
Onde Magnétique OM-1 Cassette Synthesizer
Monome Grid controlling MLR {re:mix Max for Live app}

Camera:
Apple iPhone X

The Galaxy Electric - https://www.thegalaxyelectric.com"

Aman Amun - Scapegoating

YouTube via ilidz.
"Download Scapegoating and others songs from Waxing for free:
http://amanamun.bandcamp.mu

This is documentation for an interactive-art piece I call the munome which I am using as the backbone of the Aman Amun performance.

It is meant to be a conceptual exploration of taking something that is open source (the monome) and making it even more flexible and open. The monome itself is only a grid of buttons, but this very simplicity also opens up room for almost endless functionality. For this piece I have virtualized this instrument in Max-Msp and added ways to dynamically control it both functionally and visually.

Note that this is only a small fraction of what the Aman Amun performance entails, but it illustrates some of the other ideas I am actively experimenting with. The performance seeks to explore the gradiated region that sits between "live performance," "djing" and "vjing." The monome is clearly an instrument, but the use of pre-recorded samples is very reminiscent of the practice of Djing rather than live performance. The active control of the visual display enters the realm of Vjing, but the visual information (as you will see more clearly in future documentation) is largely controlled by the music itself.

Technical Details:
The Munome is running MLR and tr256 alongside Reason for the drums sounds. I am using Johnney Lee's Wii Whiteboard to take the performance from behind the computer screen and place it out in front of the viewer.

I apologize for the video, audio, and performance quality. Expect more of all of the above in future documentation when time and equipment permits it. Thanks to midimeek, stretta, tehn, and the others of the monome community for helping make this possible. Thanks to Eric Marty and the others of the ARTX Dept. @ UGA for help with equipment and technical details. More to come.

http://www.amanamun.com
http://www.monome.org
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/project...
http://www.cycling74.com/"

Mash test

Mash test from StevieRaySean on Vimeo.

"mlr clone

6 dynamic length buffers with copy&paste, mute group, direction and pitch shortcuts.

loop pedal style recording. mute buttons record when their sample isn't playing. up to 1 minute per loop. additional loops quantized record start/stop and lengths.

didn't quite get the levels right on the live guitar.

release soon... still buggy

_mash!"

love my beard monome_mlr

love my beard monome_mlr from Nick Ciontea on Vimeo.

"Howdy people ..

Here is my first monome video. 1 month in Hope you enjoy.

Tips, criticism, and comments welcome.

I am using the "external audio in" on my little phatty with an expression pedal to sweep the ladder filter and use the LFO.

myspace.com/​nickwearstshirts
myspace.com/​tuesdaydelectation"

From the Sock Drawer // monome_mlr from Nick Ciontea on Vimeo.

"All out moog going into my monome with mlr_Aes Edit 0.3. Loopin it up and given it a bit of mashin with the pattern recorders. Using my midi keyboard to control the group volumes. Hope you enjoy. Comments and criticism encouraged. Thanks for watching!
sendspace.com/​file/​b8uany link for song download
canon hg20
monome.org"

i wish i was a finger ninja from Nick Ciontea on Vimeo.

"well i tried.. not too great but whateves........
i need more practice with getting my fingers flying

MLR-V is not my favorite but i do like the slice playback mode. back to aes"

SKINNERBOX HANDS

Published on Feb 7, 2013 iftahbox·58 videos

2x2 action
http://www.facebook.com/myskinnerbox

Skinnerbox, monome & Minimoog.

"'live control' on the right monome and a self written 'sort of realtime' mlr clone on the left one... both m4l patches"