Thanks to Julian on Max:
http://julienbayle.net/2010/09/02/max-5-1-5-released/
And if you visit http://www.ableton.com/thebridge you can join the beta testing http://www.serato.com/login?redirect=/forum/area/292/joinbeta
Send me feedback!
I will be at Electric Avenue Denver this weekend in Cervantes Other Side with the Petting Zoo.
ILL.GATES is coming back – watch for invites and details after all the Burners return.
Ableton has released 8.1.5 for public download last night.
A forum thread on the release.
Mark Mosher gets all the credit for posting this way way early in the cycle. Pay him as much browser love as possible because he is too cool!
The next meet up just kicked live. The Ableton Colorado events will be hosted by Creative Electronica for greater compliance with Ableton and the ability to begin hosting events with electronic music content far outside the Ableton spectrum.
FREE and ALL AGES! RSVP via MEETUP.COM All the details are here!
Bobby Collins joins us to present the Serato environment for Ableton users in anticipation of the next (big) release from Ableton where we gain “The Bridge” to Serato.
This evening will also feature an industry mixer with an Electronic Music slant.
I / Marc will provide a short segment on the OHM64 by Livid
Chase Dobson and I will keep a beat repeat clinic in the back room that will also function as a beginner meets pro area to get questions answered or worked out.
This is a really exciting event and all the details (including sponsors) are available at http://creativeelectronica.com.
ILL.GATES this weekend!
22may2010 : City Hall
Start Time: Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 9:00pm
End Time: Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 2:00am
Location: City Hall Amphitheater
Street: 1144 Broadway
City/Town: Denver, CO fbook link
23May2010 : Ill Methodology Workshop (21+ @ walnut details Details and RSVP $50)
24May2010 :Ill Methodology Workshop (18+ @ woudl shop details and RSVP $50)
Pre pay using using this paypal address for ILL.GATES: thephatconductor@gmail.com or contact Ableton Denver with questions!
What to bring to the workshop.
Here’s The Phat Conductor:
ESKAMON: “Fine Objects” – Ableton Tutorial by ill.Gates from ESKMO on Vimeo.
Back to the post!
Brining improv back, this certainly does look interesting – improvisation is an area of great exploration and focus for m. There are a few key elements worth noting:
-The basics – “Solo over form” and “what is form” in Ableton
-As a solo artist
-In conjunction with synchronization
-In the “live band” context and how to cue and communicate these ideas as well as scripting got them in the sheet music.
This is a great article form our friends over at Audio Tuts providing a help list for the “pre-mastering” stage. A good read or at least a good scan.
Damn, fabric driven controller, no seriously – if my fashion designer wife and I collaborated for the purpose of sound this is someplace we could visit:
fabricmachine from Kathrin Stumreich on Vimeo.
The Quote from Dave Smith (classic) :
“As I always say, as a designer, if you design something digital, you spend all your time adding slop in. If you’re designing analog, you spend all of your time trying to take the slop and the noise out.”
My iPad is coming (I know, I suck, 100% hypocrisy) Rather than spam out a full page of low quality vids of demos of apps here is the Top 25 according to Audio Tuts
Oliver found some Kaoss hacking – not my thing but kinda cool.
I am out for now! More in a bit! –M
Hello all – we are proud to announce that there is a second ILL.GATES workshop available for Monday May24, 2010 at The Would Shop.
Your RSVP link via Meetup.com.
This event is 18+ so bring your (not too) little brother or sister!
Don’t forget the ILL.GATES is performaing at City Hall (map link) on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 9:00pm. Facebook Event link and the CoClubs link.
About the ILL.GATES visit and his evening at City Hall!:
ill.Gates - http://mutimusic.com - http://thephatconductor.com
[Toronto][Muti Music, Amorphous Music/Child's Play/Om Records, Addictech]
ill.Gates is a Toronto-based composer, performer and educator. Over the past 15 years, he has established a global fan base and a reputation as one of the most dynamic electronic music artists around. He regularly tours across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Gates has headlined at such festivals as Burning Man, Shambala, the World Electronic Music Festival and the New Orleans Jazz Festival. He also has cultivated a thriving creative partnership with the San Francisco-based bass music icon Bassnectar, including a chart-topping remix of ‘Maximum’ by DJ Vadim that sold so fast the duo were accused of chart hacking. Please welcome ill.Gates back to Denver for another mind blowing bass fueled performance!
EPROM - http://eprommusic.com - http://myspace.com/eprommusic
[California][Surefire, Black Acre, Cloak x Dagger]
EPROM is known for his diverse, funky and energetic sets, which cross the lines between live remixing and manipulation of hip hop and dubstep with his own obscenely bass-heavy neurocrunk transmissions. EPROM has played alongside artists like Flying Lotus, The Glitch Mob, Skream, Lazer Sword, Kode9, Mochipet, Rustie, and many others. EPROM has worked with internationally renowned MCs and has slated multiple vinyl releases in the coming year. DJ supporters include Starkey, Jakes, Bassnectar, The Glitch Mob, Rustie, Megasoid, Zombie Disco Squad, Riton, Basement Jaxx, and BBC Radio One’s Mary Anne Hobbs.
S.P.E.C.T.R.E. - http://basslabmusic.com - http://facebook.com/spectrebeats
[Denver][BassLab, True Movement, Daly City, Dirty Circuit Records]
S.P.E.C.T.R.E. brings a diverse mixture of bass heavy music combining glitch hop, dubstep and beyond with a flare for the unexpected. His seamless blending of styles and tempos and on the fly mash-ups has made him a crowd favorite in Colorado. Co-founder of the BassLab crew, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. has built a large following from the infamous Jungle Labs warehouse parties, regular nights at Denver’s Beta Nightclub, and his mixtapes on the Temporal Fusion podcast. Recently S.P.E.C.T.R.E. has signed with Propa Tingz’ True Movement label and released the Bad Girls Go To Hell EP which is currently in the top ten charts on addictech.com
A few things happening this weekend, there is no excuse to not listen to some kick ass electronic music or learn!
First we have Steve Nalepa (nah lay pa) hosting a Master Class. Here is a post with the full details.
Saturday May 1, 2010 from 1pm-6pm at The Lucid Gallery (719 W 8th Ave Denver, CO 80204). The cost is $100. I will be helping out for the day.(Facebook Event). Steve is also part of RE:UNIFIED FIELD (below)
Denver Noise Festival
Friday: Doors at 6:00pm Noise at 7:00pm
Saturday: Doors at 3:00pm Noise at 4:00pm
RE:UNIFIED FIELD Presented by SONIC BLOOM and EC [FBook]
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 8:00pm
Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom & Cervantes’ Other Side
You knew this was coming, I try not to drop too much iPad stuff, hoping the absolute best will trickle back. But this is a start, file under “we saw this coming and I am excited to see where we can take this…”. (thanks to DHenderson for helping find this Synthopia article.
midiPad in action from kai on Vimeo.
Also – Ableton announces compatibility with the Novation’s SL Mk II series . See the SL products and more at this very red novation page.
Finally – this is super fun from Laura Escude.
“Pororoca” music video from Laura Escudé on Vimeo.
Ableton Denver in conjunction with Basslab Music are proud to announce that ILL.GATES will be conducting a master class from 6 to 10pm on 23May2010 at the Walnut Room.
Second Date added!! 24May2010 – details here.
You can RSVP here via the meet up group and pre-registration is available via email transfer or paypal to : thephatconductor@gmail.com
Cost $50 / person or “Bring 2 and get in for free” (pre-registration required for this offer) or a special discount for our members. Details at the end of this post.
Ill.Gates : THE ILL.METHODOLOGY
“I went from finishing a tune every six months, to finishing one or more a day, and I can teach you to do the same” – Ill Gates
Ill Gates is the new moniker of Canadian breaks producer The Phat Conductor.
He’s been producing music with the likes of Bassnectar, Si-Begg and a ton of others and has put together a brilliant lecture/workshop which can increase your skills and productivity massively in all sorts of areas by making you more efficient and teaching you how to not only write tunes, but to complete them and make them high quality.
Like many of the emerging US/Canadian glitch-hop scene, Gates favours Ableton live for performance and production, and he will show you how to set up racks (combinations of instruments and effects presets), “Sampler 128’s” (pre-loaded banks of samples which massively speed up sound selection for your tunes while at the same time giving you much greater control in sound design), use of Ableton for live performance/DJ sets, and techniques to get your creative parts of the brain to the forefront, so that you get to finish songs quickly without sacrificing quality, while keeping your music fresh.
WORKSHOP LAYOUT:
On top of all this, he’ll give you a pile of his DJ Templates, racks, custom effects, remix parts and course notes.
This 4 hour workshop has been getting incredibly positive reviews and feedback from producers in north america wherever it’s touched down – it’s pretty fair at only $50, and if you’d like to attend but can’t afford to, just find 2 friends who can, and you’ll fly for free (applies to pre-registration only).
This is a rare chance to learn techniques and tips from a world class producer who’s not only putting out wicked records, but has been smashing audiences around the world with killer sets played to big crowds at such festivals as Canada’s legendary Shambhala, and the US Burning Man festival more recently.
Feedback so far from Aussie attendees has been 100% positive, with a couple so far even paying extra AFTER the workshop finished – I kid you not.
Don’t take my word for it though… If you want to hear about a past workshop, and how much it affected those who attended (one of whom flew across the continent) you can read up here:
Admission Includes:
Also: if you’re broke, you can get in FREE by pre-registering two people who pay the full price.
PRE-REGISTRATION payments via email transfer or paypal to : thephatconductor@gmail.com
Pre-registering ensures entry/seating and also allows you to get a head start on the documents and templates.
Reduced rate for late comers but the most important information is within the first hour.
Discounts are available for existing users meaning users registered before the date of this post on one of these three areas:
ABLETON LIVE WORKSHOP: TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES
FOR COMPOSITION, PRODUCTION AND LIVE PERFORMANCE
Five Hour Intensive Ableton Live Workshop in Denver, CO taught by Steve Nalepa.
Saturday May 1, 2010 from 1pm-6pm at The Lucid Gallery (719 W 8th Ave Denver, CO 80204). The cost is $100.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Ableton Live is a dynamic and empowering tool for every stage of the musical process, from composition to production to live performance. Whether you are a producer or dj, sound designer or composer, the versatility of Ableton Live makes it the ideal tool for both beginners and experts alike. This workshop is an opportunity to learn from a veteran Ableton Live expert who has been teaching this software to the biggest artists in electronic music for years. Please bring a pair of headphones and your laptop loaded up with Ableton Live, as there will be a series of exercises. You can download a free 30 day working demo from www.ableton.com
The workshop begins with a brief overview of the capabilities of Ableton Live, followed by a series of composition and production techniques. There will be Live demonstrations and practice exercises with step by step instructions that cover the entire songwriting process, exploring a variety of different approaches. Topics covered include crafting beats, getting the fattest drum sounds, writing
melodies, creating basslines, using EQ and effects, experimenting with sound design, sidechain compression, arranging, mixing and mastering.
The workshop also addresses a variety of ways to utilize Ableton Live for Live Performance, providing you with an overview of the various strategies while delivering a plethora of tips and tricks culled from the instructor’s many years of working with and performing alongside the most innovative performers in the world. Learn how artists like Nosaj Thing, Adam Freeland, Flying Lotus, [a]pendics.shuffle, Bassnectar and The Glitch Mob set up their live performance documents. Some artists use Live to DJ complete songs while adding real time dub and glitch effects, others prefer to break their songs out into stems, building up their compositions on the fly so their performances have more room for improvisation. Live is great for loop recording, and it even features video now so you can rock audiovisual sets.
There are an almost endless amount of possibilities with Ableton Live, even more so now that it integrates seamlessly with Serato and MAX/MSP. This workshop will fill your head with ideas and leave you truly inspired. This is a complete overview course aimed at bringing new users and experts alike to a new level of understanding of this incredibly powerful piece of music software.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Steve Nalepa (Chapman University Conservatory of Music, 1320 Records)
LA-based electronic musician, multimedia artist and mad scientist collector Steve Nalepa is one of the world’s foremost experts on Ableton Live. Working for years with M-Audio/Ableton, Nalepa provided VIP support and software training for a multitude of high-profile artists and producers. Nalepa has produced tracks with such legends as Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders, performed with the LA Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and shared the stage with some of the
most revered electronic musicians and video artists in the world. 1320 Records released his triple album Flatlands in May, the original compositions accompanied by a collection of music videos and remixes by an all-star cast of luminaries including The Glitch Mob, Deru and Nosaj Thing. Nalepa is one of 100 artists featured in Visionaire 53: Sound, his song Flatlands joining original pieces from David Byrne, U2, Lalo Schifrin, Danger Mouse, Yoko Ono and more on five 12” vinyl record picture discs packaged with a portable record player inside a specially produced domed case. When he’s not in the lab, rocking international dancefloors or hosting Ableton Live workshops, Nalepa can be found teaching Ableton Live, Logic, ProTools and Reason to the students in his Principles of Music Technology classes at Chapman University Conservatory of Music.
Mark Mosher started off the evening with a presentation on Percussa Audio Cubes. Here’s a little video via David Henderson.
Percussa Audio Cubes are essentially a reactable physical world interface for controlling data. They play very well with Ableton, but the control can be ported to any digital information.
They sense light, each other, and orientation. So the possibilities are endless. Feel free to contact Mark via Modulate This for info or to learn more (he has written extensively on the topic and the archives include an interview with the creator of the cubes.
They are a fantastic interface and well worth the $200 per cube (pre-discount). Do NOT pass these by as a viable interface!
As for Cache Flowe, well, Justin did a total kick ass job on presenting. He will be back. I also see him joining us in teaching an intro class on Processing.org usage.
I could go on and tout the presentation but instead I thought I would tell you what I did when I got home after the meet up.
I downloaded the software here is the flow(e):
And we have visual. Granted that was a straight line. But it really was that easy.
The day job for me is programming, so I understand what they are doing. The integration with Ableton – well, that is another thing all together.
That is where the class comes in! Stay tuned for details on that adventure. Our intro to processing will be a free class and happen at our Lab down south.
There is a gallery from the evening here. Or you can see it locally here.
Justin / Cache Flowe is an infinitely talented musician and programmer. But you DO NOT need his level of knowledge to make the magic happen. This stuff will be blowing up – video integration is already here, we just need to get all the various elements talking. Cache Flowe did all the leg work already – we can learn form his experiences.
–M
