in Electronic Music
SF MusicTech Summit 2011 Eigenlabs trade table, a set on Flickr.
I had the unique opportunity to be part of part of the 2011 San Francisco MusicTech Summit, both as musician, demonstrator and panelist.
Here are some pictures of the trade table we set up for the Eigenharps.
Posted in Controllers.
– May 12, 2011
Roger & Ingrid Linn on Eigenharp Alpha, a set on Flickr.
Roger and Ingrid Linn tried out the Eigenharp Alpha when I was invited at their home.
They both had a lot of fun. Ingrid picked up the modeled cello very quickly since I tuned the Eigenharp exactly the same way, with just an additional string.
After this, Roger and I spent a few hours building custom setups, creating synth sounds and generally adapting in various creative ways … great times!
Posted in Controllers.
– May 12, 2011
Our panel at SF MusicTech Summit 2011. Sadly these are only the first 34 minutes since my SD card was full after that.
We ~ Roger Linn, Ed Goldfarb and Geert Bevin ~ presented the LinnStrument, the Continuum and the Eigenharp. We demonstrated that we’re now at a tipping point where electronic musical instruments are every bit as expressive as traditional instruments.
After that we go into an interesting discussion and debate about the subject with audience Q&A.
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration.
– May 10, 2011
The main body of the Eigenharp software is now Open Source software, released under the GPLv3. If you are interested this enables you to develop Agents, help fix bugs and contribute to the ongoing Eigenharp project.
There are a few things *not* released under the GPL.
The main source code and needed binaries can be found on Github. If you’d like to contribute code, we do need you to agree to our Contributors Agreement. This is derived from the Canonical one used for Ubuntu projects (by kind permission of Mark Shuttleworth). You can download it here.
All details can be found on the Eigenlabs wiki.
Posted in Software.
– May 8, 2011
Yesterday evening, Roger Linn, Ed Goldfarb and me presented a ‘new instruments’ clinic at Stanford CCRMA. SynthMe recorded a video of the event. Tonight we’re doing this again at Berkeley’s CRMA but with SLABS instead of the Continuum.
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration.
– May 6, 2011
I’ve prepared a reinterpretation of Koyaanisqatsi for our San Francisco Eigenharp tour from May 5-10.
Koyaanisqatsi holds a special place in my heart, it’s one of those musical pieces that never leaves you, it stays deep inside you with all its beauty and nakedness, forever. My father introduced me to it when I was a little kid, it’s a real shame he passed away before I was able to play it for him myself. He would have loved it. Nonetheless, this is dedicated to him.
I think I managed to capture the essence of Koyaanisqatsi, let me know what you think of it.
I you like this performance, you can download the lossless audio file from SoundCloud for free.
For those interested in the technical parts:
Everything is played on the Eigenharp Alpha and recorded straight from the audio interface output without any mixing and just a little bit of mastering. I’m using the SonicCouture’s Glass / Works instrument in a four-part multi-timbral setup in Native Instruments Kontakt. Each key individually controls pitch, velocity and the resonance of the convolution filter cut-off frequency (which creates a faint scraping-like sound).
The vocals are done through the DPA microphone that’s clipped onto the breath pipe and plugged into the Eigenharp Alpha. It uses the built-in Eigenharp Alpha pre-amp and is routed through a series of Audio Unit effects in EigenD for pitch shifting, stereo spreading, EQ and compression. I’m monitoring directly from the headphone output of the Eigenharp Alpha with my Etymotic ER-4P earphones.
The single instrument cables carries all the information, data and audio, in both directions.
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration, Live.
– May 3, 2011
There are lots of Eigenharp events coming in the following months.
Next week there will be a series in San Francisco together with Roger Linn and other novel instrument players/creators. Afterwards, there will be more in England, Belgium and France.
This is your chance to see an Eigenharp in person and to try one out if you feel like doing so.
Check the dedicated event page out here:
http://www.eigenzone.org/events
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration.
– April 28, 2011
David Harvey has been working on a visual action-based manual for the Eigenharp Tau and it’s starting to look very good.
Check it out at: http://www.teamsandtechnology.com/download/Tau.pdf
David is looking for input from Tau players to improve it, let him know what you think about it!
Posted in Controllers, Tutorial.
– April 14, 2011
Dragica graciously took the effort of recording my Friday demo at MusikMesse on the Steinberg booth. Hope you enjoy it even though the quality is only that of a cell phone camera.
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration.
– April 10, 2011
My interview on Steinberg TV during MusikMesse 2011 where I talk about the Eigenharp and Cubase 6 Note Expression.
Posted in Controllers.
– April 9, 2011