Finally i finished to cut:
(created from STE-000 2.wav)
15:30 – 21:13
21:33 – 34:21
(created from STE-000 3.wav)
1:01 – 23:01
36:59 – 44:04
four more berlin tracks
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Author Archives: roger
Berlin 2019 — track no. 3
the third track (= min 0 – 6:34 from from STE-000 2.wav)
Berlin 2019 — twotracks
The first two track from yesterday (created from STE-000 1.wav)
Macumbista FuzzTone SoundBox
A little detail about yesterday’s jam: we were using a Macumbista FuzzTone SoundBox – they are built in miniseries by Dennis Holzer and are real monsters in sound and playing. Here is a small snapshot: Fuzz Box and lumanoise v.02, a light controlled analog synth, which was also used in the jam (details to lumanoise v.02)
The files of the jam will soon be available here.
the first four tracks +1 +3 +6
A rough cut and mix of the material from the first half hour:
+1 / 31.07.2019
+3 / 11.8.2019
+6 / 18.8.2019
Remembering Holger Czukay
Holger Czukay (24 March 1938 – September 2017)
Steps to an easy online #1000tracks
Yesterday morning i had some time to think about how to implement our #1000tracks in an easy way online.
My first idea was to do the administration of files online with WordPress on board tools. Realizing that its not possible to add tags to media files in a standard WordPress install i found a plugin, that allows to do that.
So the WordPress media library could be our file repository.
Currently there is an upload limit to our media library concerning the size of a single file. There is a way to bypass this (basically: upload via ftp, then pull in the files to the WordPress media lib) – but it is possible to lift the upload limit (i just have to check if it works via .htaccess, a php-ini file or maybe via the WordPress functions).
Then i had the idea, that the basic Schnitzler concept (using a cassette-player for each track) could be implemented easily in the browser: just add the audiofiles to an HTML5 audio player, one player for each file, and start playing, by pressing the play and pause buttons and increase or lower the volume. Because there is a limitation to one file that can be played at once on a site, the audiofiles have to be implemented each to an iframe. Depending on the browser you are using the player offers some nice add ons: e.g. the player, that comes with firefox is able to loop files and to switch the tempo: 0.5x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x
One more problem if we are using the audioplayer that is integrated to the browser: after loading the site all players start to play immediatley.
I think there should exist a javascript based audioplayer, that offers more possibilities across platforms: e.g. to stop the player onLoad, to loop automatically, to switch tempo and maybe more … If we decide to go this way i’ll do some research. This could be a good one: https://howlerjs.com/.
The process of creating the single player pages – which then are put together in a site with iframes – sureley can be setup so that this can be done in an easy and comfortable way.
Vision for the future: soundsets (a subset of the 1000 tracks) can be generated and stored to a website; to do a concert all you need is a device, that is able to open websites (e.g. a smartphone) and a (fast) internet connection; #1000tracks concerts can be done all around the world; everybody can be the musician …
Here http://www.elektrodomestika.net/1000-tracks/ i prepared a very basic example. Maybe you want to lower the volume when checking the example, because all audioplayers start playing together 😉
home studio up and (nearly) running
thanks to Pablos help (who spent the whole day with me, working in my room) i’ve been able to start the setup of my homestudio. removing mountains of “elektroschrott” (electrical scrap) mixed with dust and ashes that i’ve been collecting on my second big desk, literally for years … now the machines are in place, nearly ready to run:
there’s missing the cabling and i realized, that my mixer didn’t like the years without mixing (and the dust, of course) … but a start is made, and my motivation is still high 🙂
i had to check out my new sound toy: a lumanoise v.02 (a light controlled synth):
aside from that i did a little research concerning playing music together live and online – which could be a nice highlight as you suggested to keep the motivation high for the 1000 tracks … i found some starting points to free software that could be explored further:
ohmstudio — source nexus — jamulus — jammr
Remembering Mika Vainio
A great tribute to Mika Vainio on residentadvisor.net – with an overview of his works at the bottom of the page.
I am sad.
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I got one idea for a way of collaboration – inspired by the work of Conrad Schnitzler. I had the idea to take one of his basic principles on which he has been working his whole life: in his early works in the seventies he started to work with several simple cassette players. Each one served like a track in a mixer. It was possible to influence two basic parameters: play/stop and volume. In his walking performances alone (as 3-track mixer) or together with another musician (another 3-track mixer) or with several musicians (each one playing one track), as you see in the stills from the videos:
He was working in producing 1000 different cassettes (= tracks) to be played in this way in a concert (but didn’t finish the 1000).
So my idea is to work (with digital means) in a similar way: produce 1000 tracks that can be played together. I did some work in Ableton and prepared 8 tracks, mixing them (with some more parameters than just play/stop and volume) and recording this mix:
It would be very easy to create a setup for a lot of tracks (basically this can be done in each sound editor who is able to handle multi tracks).