Spent 6 days on a soundstage at Shepperton Studios preparing tour visuals with agreatteamoftalentedpeople for the Peter Gabriel New Blood Tour and I was coding the sound reactive visuals using Processing and the hugely useful Toxiclibs) building on my earlierwork.
The visor screen from “Boy In The Bubble” (Fan shot video)
The visor screen from “Mirrorball” (Fan shot video)
The rear vertical screens on “Apres Moi” (Fan shot video).
The rear vertical screens on “My Body Is A Cage” (Fan shot video).
Recently spent a fantastic 6 days on a soundstage at Shepperton Studios preparing sound reactive tour visuals (with Processing) for the Peter Gabriel New Blood Tour with agreatteamoftalentedpeople. I had a great time and produced some work I’m very proud of. Some videos of the concerts have started to appear on YouTube including the work I did for the rear vertical screens on “My Body Is A Cage”.
I started messing around with sin/cosin based grid manipulation a few days ago and posted the results on Flickr along with an abstract of the code and equation I used to generate the images.
Resonate is taking over the Masonic Hall in Frome on Wednesday 9th of July as part of the 2008 Frome Festival. This promises to be the biggest and best Resonate so far this year.
My second ever performance of my wonky downtempo live show with added spicy visuals… If you are in the area it would be great to see you there.
Been doing a little testing and preset design for the FAW guys for their new synth, Circle.
I have to say it’s been a delight to use. Very intuitive and lovely sounding with some very unique features that make getting oddness out of this synth a breeze.
Came up with this track in a few evenings and it’s 100% Circle. The only other bits are a touch of Reverence (Audio Damage reverb plug in) and the built in Ableton Live compressors and EQs.
It’s not often you get to meet a legend, but working at Real World you get more than your fair share.
Not long ago I was scared half to death by Robert Plant when he excused a sneeze in my office when I thought I was alone and obsorbed with code and today I got to meet (again) one of the kingpin producers in my world, Adrian Sherwood.
Adrian is at Real World Studios mixing a project for Little Axe - one of my favourite Real World artists - and I was there trying to capture some moments on video for the forthcoming EPK but during some downtime we chatted for a moment about music production and he offered up some top tips and my boss, York Tillyer, captured the moment when Sherwood laid down the knowledge.
Been off work sick over last week and so finally get round to doing a proper version of this mashup (ugh!) I used to do live when I was a DJ.
2 Serge Gainsbourg tracks (Initial BB and Bonnie & Clyde), a Royce Da 5”9 Vocal from a bit of vinyl I bought a few years back, two little audio surprises at the end and a dollop of boom bap.
Annoyed Kylie has nicked the same B&C loop I’ve been using for years but hey ho - Life, as they say, sucks.
Preview it above in the flash player and if you like you can get the 320k DL below.
Nice short checklist from Chris Randall at Analog Industries. This one’s my favourite.
“Hey, I think this track needs some percussion.” Sigh. Nobody but percussionists can actually play percussion worth a shit. See #3. If you own a studio, and you want to increase your hourly billing, just leave some maracas and a tambo lying about the control room.
