2007 Atlanta Laptop Battle
It’s fusion of sound design, composition and stage performance, and a chance for laptop musicians to prove their skills in battle and develop techniques and strategies.
The 2 Preliminary rounds are July 9 and August 13, with the top 4 from each going on to play in the final on October 19. Winner of the final goes to Seattle for the National Championship round, and there are gobbos of prizes to win. Go sign up now. Oh, and Logickal will be taking part in an exhibition match against another heavyweight in what should be a challenging Musickal Iron Chef Challenge.
Here are some blurry photos from my phone from NYC… More updates and a new podcast are coming soon!
Newsvine - Music, Symbolism, Magic and Manipulation
These same principles were well understood by magicians, alchemists and proponents of hermetic thought. Early hermeticists viewed the world in accordance with the principle “as above, so below”. In their worldview, all of creation was a holistic, interconnected unit, whose binding element was the principle of harmony. This principle was one which they could easily test, through the use of stringed instruments. When two strings were tuned to the same frequency, when one was plucked, the other would vibrate in what appeared to be ’sympathy’. What we understand is that the plucked string causes the air surrounding it to vibrate, which then causes the second string to vibrate, assuming that both strings have been ‘harmonically attuned.’
Hi everybody - sorry if you’re getting tired of seeing me crosspost this all over the internets…
It looks like Logickal and 3kStatic are going to be heading back to NYC for the RemixHotel NY event between May 18-20, and I’m trying to see if there’s anyone in the area with an open performance slot at a show, (house) party, art gallery, etc. on either the 18th or 19th in order to maximize the trip up from Nashville. I have a feeling that the RemixHotel performances will be pretty aggressive and beat-oriented, so it would be very nice to fit in a more esoteric/atmospheric set somewhere over the weekend, although any and all opportunities would be great!
If anyone has anything going on, please drop me a line and let me know - I’m aware that it’s pretty last minute, so many thanks in advance for even the smallest lead or tip!
A few moons past, I was asked by the Daevl.Master to participate in an experiment dreamed up by Blue Deceiver and Martin Spernau involving composition with a stringent set of parameters: all sounds had to be sourced solely from a set of five original samples. No additional instrumentation, synthesizers, what have you. I, having a particular fondness for these kinds of limitations, immediately agreed.
Well, the project is over and public now, and you can hear what I and 7 other artists and alchemists (including Sugarknife remixer and all around instigator BlueDeceiver) did with those five base elements by pointing your browser over to the DaevlMakr.com 5 Way Path page. All of the tracks are available to stream or to download, so it amounts to a nice little V/A compilation. If you’re interested in hearing what the sources were, or giving it a shot youself, the original sample pack is still available from this page as well.
I also have to echo what BlueDeceiver said about these tracks - it’s incredible how different they are from one another. To me, that’s a testament to the creative powers of the contributors - each artist’s path took those original 5 elements in some very different ways, and it’s a beautiful thing.