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Japan Mini-Tour 14-16.09.24
Better late than never, allow me to announce my upcoming Japan dates this September. Or, as we in the bunker call it: Next weekend.
Starting off in Shibuya, Tokyo on the 14th I’ll be playing a gig at Zubar together with Log.os, DJ Topgear and Mandy at Zubar.
Next up is Osaka on the 15th, though at time of writing I’m still waiting to hear back on details. If all goes ahead as planned it will happen at Environment 0g.
Last, not least, on the 16th I’ll be playing Kobe together with Sunao Inami (Controlled Voltage), DJ Vincent Jelen, _underline, VJ cafe13 at Katakamna
Come by if you’re near on those dates!
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A Nullgerät Remixed and another morning
Fresh out on Japanese label 時の崖_tokinogake is Farmers Manual – Nullgerät Remixed, a massive remix album featuring a remix by yours truly alongside a total of 31 Remixes.
Check it out:
I’ve also recently finished the 6th track of my 12 Months of Mornings project. 13 July 2024 marks the half-point (6 tracks) of the year long project. Check it and the whole album out here:
Last not least, I’ll have an announcement about a few live shows in Japan this September soon! Stay tuned!
A Day that will live in Alchemy: 10 June 2024
12 Months of Mornings
The 12 Months of Mornings project continues, now already 5 tracks strong, during this time of year blessed with bright mornings but not always great weather. Luckily, that doesn’t have too much an effect on the ability of those おはよオーリバー (Good Morning) shots to be turned into some interesting music, which frequently even surprises myself.
In June 2024 the photo for June 10th made the cut and it eventually ended sounding like this:
So, how did it come to sound like this?
On this occasion I decided to forego some of the tools I relied more heavily upon on for some of the previous tracks, such as Photosounder, SoundArt etc. Instead all the fundamental sounds were created using Camel Audio’s fantastic Alchemy Synth. (Sadly now only available as part of Logic, as the Camel Audio was sold to Apple & the VSTi was discontinued – but luckily I still have it from when I did beta testing and it still works!)
Alchemy can load images for resynthesis into its oscillators and with that create some very unique and interesting sounds. Unlike some of the standalone programs, the waveform created via additive (fft-) resynthesis, works like a regular oscillator, can be modulated with LFOs and envelopes, is routed through the filter and VCA and, viola, you have a nice sound!
The composition was inspired/based on the picture in a loose interpretation. But I think you can still see/hear similarities with the structure of the track and the image if read from right to left (yes, let’s not always read left to right in a Eurocentric way!)
Do have a listen to this latest, and all the tracks! And if you are able, please consider supporting the project by buying the album on Bandcamp!
Do follow on Twittre &/or BlueSky where the photos are posted each morning – your likes, comments, reposts etc all have an influence on which photo gets chosen each month!
Depth Sounding
I’ve already mentioned the pre-release in my latest post and am now happy to announce that Depth Sounding (Live at Hofburg, Vienna) is out in all its Kaiserliche – & Konigliche Pracht (if you pardon my German):
The Multi-track recording of the live performance was mixed & mastered and has kindly been released by Graz based friends and label Bruitversum.
A few images from the event – me performing live, being photographed by my dad, a view of my very minimal setup and some impressions from the private view of Spacegroup Architects’ “Vertiefung (Adding Depth)” exhibition. (Photos own & dfkt)
Depth Sounding (Live at Hofburg) is available via Bandcamp:
https://bruitversum.bandcamp.com/album/depth-sounding
It’s also available via the major streaming services:
https://ditto.fm/depth-sounding-live-at-hofburg-vienna
And on youtube:
Please enjoy listening. And I hope I’ll soon be able to play more live concerts!
じゃあまた。
A New Morning after a night in the Teufelskammer, escape via Burg-hopping.
Good news everyone. Quite a few items, once again, as I didn’t manage to post about them one by one. Now there’s a lot of new music to tell you about:
A recent sign of life from my Death Librarian project that I’m very thrilled to be able to tell you about, not the least because it’s the first DL track to appear on physical media:
Teufelskammer (Devil’s chamber), an exclusive track inspired by the Teufelskammer at Austria’s Schloss Tratzberg and its surrounding story, was released last Saturday on limited edition tape and digital on the excellent Dustopian Frequencies label’s “Ghost Stories 3” compilation.
Check it out here, and if you’re quick, grab one of the remaining limited tapes! If you a player…
And then, once you’ve spent a night in the Teufelskammer (and haven’t been dragged to hell), you might wake up to another morning turned into sound.
Yes, the latest track from the 12 Months of Mornings project has been completed and is ready to listen. You can head to youtube, where I’ve uploaded all the tracks so far and will keep adding, and have a listen there:
Or, even better, go to bandcamp where you can treat yourself to owning the whole album. The sooner you get it, the cheaper as the price goes up by 50P with each new track added:
And as it’s the last day of June, don’t forget that you can still have a say in which picture is chosen next by looking at them on twtttrX or BluSky and liking/sharing/commenting for a point each. And follow for the next months, if you don’t already do. Read more about the project here and here.
May’s picture was, making for some nice variety, taken in Austria during a two week’s stay there end of May, first week of June….
… which is also a brilliant segue:
Taking us to our “Last not least” – as announcements go:
I did hint at Burg-hopping, and while I didn’t visit the Teufelskammer at Castle Tratzberg in person on this occasion, I did hop east – while in Austria – and paid an actual visit to Vienna’s Imperial Palace also know as Die Hofburg. There I did a short live performance for the private view (Vernisage) of “Vertiefung (Adding Depth)” by London based Space Group Architects at Redoutensaal Foyer.
While the private view was only open to a small audience, the live set was recorded on multi-track, carefully mixed and is now being made available to all to hear via Graz, Austria based label bruitversum. Featuring two ambient/kankyo ongaku inspired tracks originally created for a previous project by Spacegroup Architects at London’s famous Regent Street, plus reworks of samples and sound material from two previous EPs, 13 Objects and Lithophonurgia sinistra, into new mash-up versions.
Pre-orders for Depth Sounding (Live at Hofburg, Vienna) are open and the full release is on July 5th. Do head over to bandcamp and check it out, please.
As always, thanks for reading through to the end! Don’t forget to like, subscribe… oh wait, other platform. But do follow on bandcamp, streaming services, socials etc. You’ll thank me later!
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