Califaudio

The Beginning Is Near

2010-02-07T11:22:00.000-08:00

dear family and friends,

you're invited to a special gathering celebrating life as we know it.

tj milian

"the beginning"

american debut live performance

wednesday, february 10, 2010

6:00 pm

mater academy

7901 nw 103rd street

hialeah gardens, florida 33016

in just 3 days, i hope you'll join us for a fun night of musical and visual performance art. i will begin telling the story of my life and dreams, beginning with my conception, birth and first 12 years as a boy growing up in miami, florida.

this week we're celebrating my father's birthday. this is my gift to you, dad. happy birthday!

and wednesday is my birthday. it's my birthday, too, yeah!

the festivities begin at 6:00 pm on wednesday. please email me to let me know if you can make it. check back here soon for more info. see you soon in miami!

Launchpad Footbath Rap

2010-02-03T08:38:00.000-08:00

Japanese actress Ikeda Yukiko performs a rap song [Rapper's Delight] while Morley Robertson hacks out the bassline on a Novation Launchpad... with his feet in a warm foot bath and his legs being licked by a dog.

If you must watch more, here's Ikeda Yukiko rapping "The Message" along with her sticky iPod in a Tokyo subway and Morley Robertson spazzing out on his Launchpad and visiting the chiropractor.

youtube: tibetronica via @dannylohner

Noise Angels

2010-01-31T23:02:00.000-08:00

Noise Angels from Peder Norrby.

Graphics and Music by Peder Norrby of Trapcode.

After Effects Audio Waveform + Trapcode Particular

Wired Old Media Jamboree

2010-01-30T08:18:00.000-08:00

Wired Old Media Jamboree from jankworks:

"This was shot on a bare bones Canon HV30, no fades, no video effects except speed and resizing, no foley, no reverse, and no color correction were used (not because I'm lazy, I liked the challenge). A Zoom H2 was used for some sound, but proved to be a pain syncing with the video, so the onboard mic was my fallback. I wish I had more time to work on this, deadline had me rushing.

All sound appearing in this video plays through first at regular speed, while simultaneously linked with its original video source, before any speed was changed, audio looped, or audio was decoupled from source video. Hope that makes sense to you editors out there. There is one continuity error in this video, left there on purpose. See if you can pick it up. Also, the riff with the bells sped and slowed is a very weak tip of the hat to the breaking bells on Run DMC's Peter Piper.

This video is also my submission to Wired's media room contest... http://www.wired.com/magazine/wiredmakeover/"

LCD Soundsystem Mansion Studio

2010-01-29T03:51:00.000-08:00

clip 1 from lcd soundsystem.

by david baum

via ihavesynth

Monorocket Mission6 Modular Synth Case

2010-01-28T02:10:00.000-08:00

Tonight I put together the modular synth I'll be using in Miami.

I picked up this new Mission6 case from Shawn from Analogue Haven last night.

It was custom-built for me by Steve R from Monorocket. Thanks, Steve!

The construction is solid, and the dark red snakeskin looks great!

After a few hours of planning, screwing modules in place and patching cables like a mad scientist...

I was cranking out some super wild sounds. The delays in the new Tiptop Audio Z-DSP module are really amazing!

So good...

Z.Vex Inventobox

2010-01-27T09:32:00.000-08:00

Zachary Vex showing his new DIY guitar effects pedal creation: the Z.Vex Inventobox.

Video by premierguitar.

Coachella 2010 Lineup

2010-01-19T10:38:00.000-08:00

The Coachella 2010 lineup has been announced:

Thom Yorke????, Them Crooked Vultures, Gary Numan, LCD Soundsystem, Les Claypool, Z-Trip, Devo...

FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ's, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.

Tickets for COACHELLA go on sale Friday, January 22 at 10:00 AM through Ticketmaster. Three-day weekend passes are $269.00, plus surcharges.

www.coachella.com

Califaudio Twitter NAMM 2010

2010-01-14T00:31:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody.

I set up a Twitter account for Califaudio:

http://twitter.com/califaudio

I plan to tweet about the audio-related pursuits of the interesting musicians - artists - experimenters + dreamers of the world and beyond, along with my own adventures in music - sound + noise.

This morning is the start of the 2010 NAMM Show, the huge convention in Anaheim for all the cool new musical instruments and sound gear. I'll be cruising the show and tweeting along the way. If you're into music tech geekery... Follow!

Catch you on Twitter. You can also keep up with Califaudio through the RSS feed + email updates.

There Will Come Soft Rains

2010-01-11T01:10:00.000-08:00

There Will Come Soft Rains from Megan Feehan.

A poem by Sara Teasdale, as read in a short story by Ray Bradbury. Performed by electronic sounds encountered daily.

Toy's Opera

2010-01-10T10:21:00.000-08:00

Artist Demonstration: Toy’s Opera (Adam Kendall, Yoni Niv, Elad Schniderman) from Play With Fire.

"A multimedia performance written for and incorporating small moving toys and found-objects, video, physical computing, and sound art.

The miniature 5ft x 4ft stage, performative video, and interactive serially-operated devices (controlled via an Arduino physical-computing microcontroller) are the heart of the project. The rich, realistic world of HO-scale model trains is the source-material for video and audio. Cameras positioned in and around the stage feed an automated video mixer and custom video-processing software."

Plasmawaves - Auroral Symphony + Prospectives of Resonance

2010-01-07T04:25:00.000-08:00

plasmawaves from collider

"light sound interactive installation using plasma-globes which light is generated directly by sound signals and picked up by contact microphones. (more documentation is coming). Plasmawaves has been exhibited in the collective AS IF MA - 2009"

auroral symphony from collider

"project of an audiovisual interactive installation"

Prospectives of Resonance from collider

"A documentation of an Interactive Sound Installation for Sonic Architecture Course of the Dutch artist Edwin van den Heide. I wrote a software in MAX msp which used feedback dynamics in 4 channels of sound to describe an architecture trough the acoustic principle of resonating frequences in the space - NL '09"

Sound People

2010-01-05T09:20:00.000-08:00

Sound People from Sune Hede.

A demo video of the interactive sound installation Sound People in Århus 2009. It uses camera tracking and Max/MSP/Jitter. By Sune Hede, Jakob Hougaard Andersen & Helga Rosenfeldt-Olsen

Jorge Crowe: 2x + Bendito Circuito!

2010-01-04T08:57:00.000-08:00

2x (potencia de dos) from h.cosas.

Jorge Crowe's 2x [Potencia de Dos] is a DJ/VJ electronic instrument made of a simple circuit, a scanner, six speakers, a subwoofer, an overhead projector and an LCD panel from an old laptop.

Placing your hands on the scanner's touch panel triggers seven different frequencies, and each of them is double the bits/beats of the previous (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc.). The pulses excite an LCD screen to create geometric visual compositions.

BENDITO CIRCUITO! from h.cosas.

A day of circuit bending at the Toy Laboratory in Almagro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Short video documentary on Jorge Crowe by Pablo Betas, Sol Astolfi, Flor de Giovanni, Ezequiel Pereyra Lucena and María Pirsch, first year students of the Diseño de Imagen y Sonido program at the University of Buenos Aires.

Check out Jorge Crowe's vimeo channel and his blog for more.

Thessia Machado LINK: Interference - Synf + Pluck

2009-12-26T00:51:00.000-08:00

Thessia Machado's interesting instruments:

interference from link.

Interference is an interactive sculpture/instrument made with harvested electronic parts. You can modulate both the sounds and the images by shading the light on the photocells. The lcd screen (from a discarded pda) is excited directly by the voltage output from the oscillator.

synf from link.

Synf is an analog synth (quad nand and divider chip) with built-in amp circuit.

Pluck or dot matrix space resonator is a 6-string, custom-built, self-playing instrument. Each string is tuned to a frequency value corresponding to the area of each room in a NY apartment. For example: 172 square feet = 172 Hz. The strings are plucked in a rhythm based on the pattern of freckles on the artist's torso using the principle of the player piano. This assembly is mounted directly on the wall, making the room itself part of an instrument that resonates the tones of another space. In this process, the host space adds its own harmonic stamp to the sound.

http://www.thessiamachado.com/listenindex.html

Machines + The Crowd

2009-12-26T00:26:00.000-08:00

Machines from Mayye Zayed.

"This video is a part of "FUTUREيA" project as a result of the interactive video workshop lead by Renaud Vercey and Bruno Voillot with the help of Mohamed Youssef that took place at the French Cultural center of Alexandria in December 2009.

The workshop's theme was Memory and Futurism and about the creation of a interactive DVD dealing with the aesthetics of futurism within the city of Alexandria. The event was in the frame of 22° INSTANTS VIDEO Festival 2009 and RAMI."

Filmed by Mona Mahfouz
Edited by Mayye Zayed

More details: zinclafriche.org/mef/

The Crowd from Mayye Zayed.

Euphony Interactive Generative Music Installation

2009-12-21T10:55:00.000-08:00

Euphony - An Interactive Generative Music Installation from Sumit Pandey.

Euphony is an interactive generative music installation that creates sound and ambient melodies based on the webcam detection of the movement and density of people in an open space.

Built Ben Fry and Casey Reas with Processing using the Flob library for movement and density tracking. Sounds by Hans Kuder's Tiction 0.4 freeware nodal sequencer to generate music via MIDI instruments.

Video by Sumit Pandey and Anuradha Reddy at the National Institute of Design, Kala Academy in Goa, India.

Underwater Volcano Eruption Video

2009-12-20T10:11:00.000-08:00

Underwater volcanic lava eruption
youtube video via DiscoveryNetworks

Make Noise ¡Access Denied!

2009-12-20T03:23:00.000-08:00

The Make Noise ¡Access Denied! is an upcoming matrix sequencer with touch plate input built for modular synths in the Eurorack format.

I've been wanting to add a touch panel to my synth rig for some time so I'm very much looking forward to the release of this one.

via analoguehaven

Cue-bert

2009-12-14T11:03:00.000-08:00

Introduction to Cue-bert from Noah Liebman.

Cue-bert is a mixing console concept developed by the Sound Experience Team at the University of Michigan School of Information for the Interface and Interaction Design course.

The Cue-bert mixer is a hybrid of a multi-touch screen interface and a traditional analog style mixing surface with faders, buttons and knobs. The user interface design is geared toward live sound reinforcement with an emphasis on sound for musical theater. The prototype is based on the 32x8 Tascam M3700 console.

What's the next step in the future of mixers?

Underwater Music Festival

2009-12-13T14:11:00.000-08:00

25th Annual Underwater Music Festival
by digitalislandmedia

The 25th Annual Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys at Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, 6 miles south of Big Pine Key in the summer of 2009.

A Beatles tribute band consisting of the submerged Fab Four of “Ringo Starfish,” “John Lemon-shark,” “Paul McCarpney” and “George Herringson,” accompanied by backup singer “Mako Ono,” rocked the Yellow Submarine in the waters of the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States last year.

The festival was founded by radio newsman Bill Becker. Local radio station WWUS 104.1 FM stages the event for Scuba divers and snorkelers who want to add a little music to their underwater adventures.

Florida Keys artist August Powers has sculpted a variety of aquatic musical instruments, including sea guitars, keyboards, clambourines, manta-lin, the drumfish, the sea-phan flute and the Fluke-a-Lele.

Underwater speakers were donated by Lubell Laboratories based in Columbus, Ohio. The speakers are suspended from boats to audibly reproduce the symphony under the sea.

I wonder what the fish think...

Skinny Puppy + Baseck @ Club Nokia LA

2009-12-12T06:06:00.000-08:00

Skinny Puppy played a killer concert at Club Nokia in LA Thursday night.

This was Skinny Puppy back as a raw 3-piece band: Ogre - cEvin Key + Justin Bennett on drums. It was the last night of the In Solvent See tour, and Ogre took his aggressions out on the stage props at the end of the show.

The industrial pioneers tore through a great set list spanning a major chunk of their 25-year-plus career. It was a good mix of the old classics + new favorites. They dug deep into the catalog and played some really cool songs I hadn't heard live before.

Ogre was in true form on the mic and in his theatrical stage presence. His white costume was camouflaged at times like a cool screen for the projected visuals covering the stage. cEvin Key rocked Roland JP-8000 + V-Synth keyboards along with drum pads and a couple Logic laptops. Justin Bennett was awesome on Tama drums.

Baseck was the first opening act. I'd seen the tail end of the opening set he played before Otto von Schirach a while back and was hoping to catch of full set of his someday. It was a welcome surprise to find him opening for Skinny Puppy when we got there.

Baseck was on fire Thursday night, screaming into the mic, mad scratching on the turntable, chiptuning tricked out Game Boys and freaking out on a bunch of noise toys:

2 x game boy colors w/ prosound mod
4 x jose torres bleep bloop non usb white cartridges running little sound dj
2 x loud objects noise toy
1 x bug brand board weevil
1 x ipod beatz drum machine
1 x vestax pdx 2300 mk2 turntable
1 x rane ttm 56 mixer

The second act was Vverevvolf Grehv, which apparently is the solo project of one of the guys from the Faint. I couldn't get into it. Dude could play, and he had a sweet PRS guitar, but it came across as too wankfest. I'm thinking a band to back him up would have made a big difference.

We got to meet Ogre - cEvin Key + Justin Bennett at the after show party. The Skinny Puppy band members were in celebration mode, having just finished the tour on a real high note, and were super cool.

Danny Carey + John Frusciante were at the show, too. Good times.

Skywalker Ranch

2009-12-12T02:14:00.000-08:00

Skywalker Ranch from Philip Bloom.

Skywalker Ranch filmed by Philip Bloom on Canon 5DmkII conformed to 24p + Canon 7D shooting native 24p. Timelapse done using stills.

Skywalker Ranch is the 4,000 acre working ranch that houses the headquarters for George Lucas's Lucasfilm and Skywalker Sound.

Music: Venus by Gustav Holst.

Visit Philip Bloom's blog for details on the production of this beautiful video.

via Unidentified Sound Object

Abbey Road Native Instruments

2009-12-10T02:59:00.000-08:00

Native Instruments and Abbey Road Studios have partnered up to create an upcoming line of software instruments that capture the Abbey Road sound.

Abbey Road Studios youtube video tour courtesy NativeInstruments.

Korntved R1 Analog Audio Video Effect

2009-12-09T05:28:00.000-08:00

R1_audio_distortion_video_effect_box from KORNTVED.

R1 analog audio video distortion effect box.

music: come to daddy [little lord faulteroy mix] by aphex twin

www.korntved01.com