in Electronic Music
This video introduces the new series of Eigenharp tutorials that I’m going to record. They will be short and very focused, just one or two minutes to explain a specific feature or approach.
If you have any requests for topics that you’d like me to cover, don’t hesitate to get in touch to suggest them to me!
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration, Tutorial.
– January 25, 2011
John Newman has recorded a very useful video that shows the possibilities of the Eigenharp Tau regarding changing scales and tonics from different keygroups. Nice work!
Posted in Configuration, Controllers, Tutorial.
– January 21, 2011
Toaster told me that he used the Eigenharp Tau for his latest record The Banging Process, released on BandCamp. The songs “Amen’t” and “Hovercraft Angels” in particular are filling with Eigenharp goodness, check them out:
Hovercraft Angels
Amen’t
Last month he also recorded a YouTube videos showing all the gear used for “Hovercraft Angels” while playing it live.
Posted in Song.
– January 13, 2011
On December 1, 2010 Steve H and Jordan Rudess held a masterclass and performed live at Purchase Conservatory of Music where they premiered, among other pieces Steve H’s algorithmic generated composition Echos of a Dream.
The instruments and technology used included:
More information on Steve H’s website.
Posted in Controllers.
– January 13, 2011
Jordan Rudess explains about his background as a musician, where he wants to go to and how the Eigenharp fits into the whole picture. Great artist feature!
Posted in Controllers.
– January 11, 2011
Merry Christmas everyone!
I recorded this after fine-tuning a little improvisation in the spirit of this snow-filled holiday season.
This is the last video that I’ll make where the recording is done by the same computer as the one I’m playing with. It seems to introduce too much additional overhead, causing crackling at CPU-intensive parts.
Hope you enjoy it nonetheless.
For those interested, the technical stuff:
Posted in Controllers, Live, Song.
– December 25, 2010
EigenZone has been quiet for a while … the reason for that being that I was very busy recording, mixing, producing and mastering my band’s alternative pop/rock debut album.
This is mostly a traditional vocals/guitars/bass/drums album, but there are some synth parts and they were all played on my Eigenharp Alpha using various software instruments (mostly Omnisphere and Kontakt)
You can listen to it here:
If you like the music, I’d appreciate it if you could share this address with your friends and family: http://music.flytecase.be
Thanks for the support!
Posted in Controllers.
– December 7, 2010
We’re there! The 1.1 line of EigenD has been promoted to stable and everybody in encouraged to upgrade to it. This is the result of 10 months of user feedback and optimizations to the underlying engine and overall architecture.
Registered users can download EigenD 1.1.23 from the Eigenlabs website:
http://eigenlabs.com/downloads/releases/state/stable
Here’s an overview of what’s changed since 1.0:
Work on the 1.2 line has been ongoing for several months now and unifies both the Mac and Windows releases which will now happen simultaneously. The 1.2 line is going to introduce a lot of new features and I’ll post about them in the coming weeks.
There’s seriously cool stuff waiting to get out to you … stay tuned!
Posted in Controllers, Software.
– October 21, 2010
Eigenlabs recorded a very nice artist feature with Dino Soldo, he really gets to the soul of the Eigenharp and explains it perfectly. He’s currently touring with Leonard Cohen and has played before with Lionel Richie, Elton John and Beyonce.
It’s probably the best testimonial of an established artist yet!
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration, Live.
– October 21, 2010
Many changes and improvements have gone into EigenD since it’s initial 1.0 line. This has been available through the 1.1 series of testing releases. Version 1.1.20 was just released and if there are no show-stopper issues, it will be promoted as the new stable EigenD release next week.
This is the time to download the EigenD 1.1.20-testing release, give it a good spin and let us know if you run into any problems. We’ve done a lot of testing on it, but of course end-users often find edge cases that we didn’t experience first hand.
Registered users can download it from:
http://www.eigenlabs.com/downloads/releases/eigend-1120-testing/
The changes are too numerous to list, but they’re described in the 12 page release notes.
For my own performances the 1.1 line has been a lot more stable and powerful than the 1.0, so I do recommended that every Eigenharp user jumps on the new version as soon as possible.
Enjoy!
Posted in Software.
– October 3, 2010