Stephen is hard at work, transferring old recordings of Nagamatzu from minidisc (sourced from original cassettes). You can find them at their Bandcamp page but I wanted to highlight this one in particular, which is the first time we played live. We used the Ferrograph Logic 7 reel to reel recorder for backing tracks, with various guitars and Dave Campbell’s jet flanger (thanks Dave!).
Jo Farrell did a reading of a short text written by me after the first track (thanks Jo!).
In this experiment the Korg SQ-1 sends CV sequences to the Decadebridge ‘Sn’ synth and Matrix Mixer. The audio from Sn goes into the Orgeldream ‘Eoten B’ for destructive filtering, then on to the Jomox T-Resonator II and Zoom MS-70CDR for modulation and reverb. My Eoten B has a custom filter which was added a few years after the main build – it has various modes and reacts very well when a good/hot signal is fed to the device.
In a move away from computer generated music and software synthesizers in general, I have adopted some new methods, or perhaps more accurately returned to methods I used back in the early 1980’s.
Live processing of tape based source recordings, CV control of the Passive Operator and much left to chance, as opposed to pre-programming.
I’m looking forward to many happy and unrepeatable accidents in sound.
I’ve been trying out various ideas for S.E.T.I. live performances and the latest one is the KOMA Elektronik BD-101 IR sensor controlling Error Instruments Passive Operator (‘Insane Drum Synthesizer’ in small print). The audio goes out of the BD-101 into the Novation Circuit Mono Station for filtering and to accompany the Mono Station’s drone sequence.
Happy to report that S.E.T.I. will play live (hardware set) on 9th March 2024, with some great acts. The first S.E.T.I. live performance since November 2019 at the Wroclaw Industrial Music Festival.
S.E.T.I. will not be performing at the below due to personal reasons. EX-ORDER will fill the slot on the evening.
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