G-202 conversion
July 12, 2009I recently finished modifying my main axe, a Roland G-202 guitar synth controller, installing a set of RMC bridge piezoelectric pickups in addition to the original GK-1 hexaphonic pickup electronics. This allows simultaneously controlling both an Axon-100MKII (digital, MIDI) and a Roland GR-300 (analogue) guitar synthesisers. This was to avoid resorting to trying to build…
Ellipiticalis Kemahl (Still Waiting)
May 26, 2009(c. 1994 1:09) Some off-centre turntablism in collaboration with Aaran Lodge.
Madal Solo
May 25, 2009(c. 1997, 4:07) A performance on a Nepalese Madal, a double ended drum somewhere between a South Indian Mridangam and a North Indian bayan tabla.
3:00am
May 25, 2009This was the result of picking up a cheap cast off electric guitar at an auction. I experimented with preparing the guitar by inserting screwdrivers, pens and nail files between the strings. This adapts a technique devised by John Cage to turn the piano into a percussion orchestra. Preparing the strings selected a range of…
Caribbean Wedding
May 22, 2009In March I joined Jill and many friends in Puerto Rico to celebrate Anja and Tetsu’s wedding. As part of the celebrations and ceremony, I had written the titled little piece for guitar for them that I played on the beach at sunset. I wasn’t really familiar with the guitar I borrowed & a bit…
Notions of Location
May 12, 2009This is a one minute sound piece written Nov. 1993 and presented at the 1993 Evos/PICA Soundweek. It was later performed at the International Computer Music Conference in 1996. The title refers to the intrinsic distortion of any recording technology, of contrived suggestions of different spaces that we deal with listening to any recording.
Axon Bends recordings
February 19, 2009Examples of pitch bend tracking on Axon guitar synths: Axon bends and Axon_detuned.
Ancient Ensoniq Mirage Samples and MS-DOS Utilities
December 21, 2008Many moons ago, I used to own an Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard. There are still a number of people using the Mirage, so here is a source of info for those souls still enjoying the 2 LED interface… These samples and downloads originally came from the Music Software Exchange, which retailed (for nominal shipping fee)…