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"An essential element of any art is risk." -Francis Ford Coppola "Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.” -Seth Godin
In the past, an Artist would spend years learning (or unlearning) technique while honing one’s craft. Artists sacrificed...
This is a great piece by musician and Facebook's Ambient music group administrator, Neal Gardener. Worth the read!
Live Performance with Ableton Live Prep
I've been researching how to structure my stuff in Ableton for live performance. It seems to me that the projects I write songs and grooves in aren't likely great candidates for jamming in a live context. Mainly because of all the processing and vsti's that are happening. It doesn't really take much of a hiccup in your laptop to really screw up your show - the last thing you want is a silent PA and a crowd completely wondering what A$$ is behind the music stopping. Or anything related! (clicks and pops, audio dropouts etc).
I know that I'm always pushing my computer to it's potential when writing material, so I figure that the live performance has to see this significantly reduced to manageable levels - so as much as possible, I'm exporting to new clips and building new sets for these songs that have almost zero processing. I bring an outboard stereo compressor and a Kaoss Pad 3 to the shows, so I can add a little bit of pump, weight and sugar outside of the laptop, but I try to keep the CPU meter on the low side of things.
One of the things I'm interested in refining is managing song to song, or groove to groove transitions. All of my jams are separately loaded Live projects. Obviously that isn't going to fly really well, so I'm curious about loading everything into one huge project and using scenes to move through the music in Session view, where I can still improv jam with my clips and stuff. I found this AMAZING thread on the Ableton forums talking about exactly this stuff - wow :)
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=160907
So check it out if you're looking into setting up your stuff for live performances. One cool thing I found out about was ClyphX - some kind of scripting that allows you to set a clip to contain all kinds of state modifications, like bpm, send levels, devices on/off, fader levels etc... Wow! It's like a clip to setup a new song. I can't wait to dig into that.
After this week of writing is finished, (I'm working out loads of great material for Ottawa Fashion Week, which I'll then cull the best stuff from and release), I'm going to setup the live rig and start building the show. AxiomPro 61, KP3, Kaossilator, Acoustic Guitar, Monome64. Scratching the Kore 2 - I just don't have time to work out the stability issues.
Keep on banging!
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Ableton Hacking
Well - not really. :) More like just making it do what I want it to do using the features it comes with that I don't know about. I've got a couple of gigs coming up for Ottawa Fashion Week at the end of September and I'm planning to rock them both with Ableton Live as the backbone of the show. I can't recall Ableton ever really crashing on me, so it gets the job! Right now I'm currently trying to structure my set of original jams into a few big projects in Ableton that I can basically run scenes for. I've been ripping my hair out trying to understand why I couldn't map a rotary controller to the tempo box, but I just nailed that. Turned out I needed to enable the Remote setting on the midi controller in Ableton. Strangely though, unlike when you select, say, a fader in MIDI map mode, and its related blue area is "cross-hatched" with little black corner markers to let you know you've selected it, the tempo box does no such thing. So I thought at first it couldn't be assigned.... but alas... it can. :)))
In the meantime I'm cranking out jams and grooves, heavily into using Reaktor, Absynth, Massive, Alchemy and a variety of beat tools like Sonic Charge's uTonic, AD's Tattoo and SC's awesome library of breaks and beats (Tremors, Abstrakt 1&2). Dusting said tracks with some home made mouth sounds, bass guitar and general noisemaking stuff.... fun fun fun. I figure to have all my songs turned into audio tracks so I can keep the processing live to a bare minimum (crash avoidance 101). After I get a few hours of jams worked out to audio, I'm going to rip my AxiomPro61, monome64, KaossPad and possibly my Kore 2 rig all out of the studio and see what I can do with all of this off the laptop. Big question marks on the Kore 2 stability...we'll see. I've never set it up on the laptop.... hmm.....
But I'll also run the iPad2 with some audio coming from a few apps in there, plus my iphone library, so I should be able to mix and match and handle any weird glitches with another source of audio while I get things rolling again. Right? rrrrrrright...... :)))
More later!
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