#moldover

[liamtmlacey]

Recently I’ve been privileged to be helping musician and controllerist Moldover on an exciting new project. More details coming soon...

[jennteechukphotography]

Moldover at Outdoor Vision Fest Santa Fe University of Art and Design Santa Fe, New Mexico April 29, 2016

[enoquecarrancho]

Working things out for the show at Broken City, this Sunday from 6-12pm. Moldover and Selci in effect! Come hang with us. #yyc #brokencity #moldover #selci #breadnbutta @oscill8collective

[ignacio11]

How music instrument innovation works

I might be a little late to discovering artist Moldover and his approach to guitar, but, alas, I can’t help to raise my hand and point out how his journey, as told in this video, illustrates the way instrument innovation happens (guitars in this case).

There’s always been a “chicken or egg” debate about how musical instruments are developed, whether manufacturers develop innovations and push them to musicians, or if musicians themselves dream up unheard-of sounds and then push to develop new instruments. Of course, it is both, I think. And the Moldover example is a beautiful expression of musicians/artists doing what they do, freely playing and dreaming up of ways to make sound and mold it into something musical, and in the process inventing new instruments and gear when the artists’ vision requires it.

Has Moldover’s Robocaster guitar and Guitar Wing taken off and sold like pancakes? Probably not, I would imagine; they are not hanging all over the product wall at Guitar Center. Our mainstream reaction typically insists that music and instruments stay natural, un-tinkered with, authentic, ‘real’ (like, not ‘electric’). I’m sure the mainstream had the same reaction when tinkerers like Les Paul made the electric guitar (’why would you want to tinker with the beautiful acoustic sound of the guitar?’), and today Les Paul guitars are a standard bearer of what electric guitars should be (along with Fender Stratocasters and others, and with the help of guitar amplifiers of course, the other half of guitar sound).

[odysseyeurobeat]

I made my first video in a series of tutorials I'm making, "Budget Controllerism"! This week's episode covers some affordable controller options.

[kickstarter]

Project of the Day — A new album from Moldover packaged in a playable circuit board instrument

[codame]

CODAME Featured Artist: Moldover

Hailed by over 1,000,000 YouTube viewers as "The Godfather of Controllerism", Moldover is a new breed of music icon. Combining the charisma of a rock star, the mad genius of a basement inventor, and the radical inclusiveness of the DIY internet generation, Moldover is "literally throwing away the rule book and reinventing the wheel" (Remix Magazine).

See for yourself at the 5ENSES experience at the CODAME 2013 ART+TECH Festival (Nov 1-2).

[2012burningmanmusic-blog]

Published on Sep 20, 2012

Moldover wields new music-making machines and unleashes the devastating power of NEW SONGS! With more than 30 events in 20 cities across the US, The Super Villain Tour is nothing if not... exhausting! Watch this video for a preview of what's to come, and peep complete details here: http://moldover.com/quicklinks/live.html. Edited by Matthew Levine, shooting by Emmanuelle Trépagny, James Peaceful, and Anthony Soler.