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livepatch

On friday 11 february I played a set at Bosch Acousmatic. Apart from the usual tape stuff, I ran my set through a pd patch on my netbook. This went very well.

The evening was opened by The Acoustic Electric Chamber Orchestra. TAECO are Steven Vinkenoog and Frank Baijer who play guitars, balalaikas and toy microphones. The room and silence play a large part in their music. The set they played last friday was truly mesmerizing.

My set included more synthetic tones. I started with a drone which returned later in my set. I also used unprocessed field recordings to contrast the processed noisiness.

My usual rollercoaster of feedback loops was completed with a Pure Data patch. Pure Data, Pd for short, is Max/MSP’s half sibling and is an impressive piece of Free software. My patch isn’t very impressive but worked very well and the bits and pieces it was built from are available for download here.

Unfortunately, I forgot to switch on my Zoom H2, so no recordings. NOOOOOOO

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live MedMudisms added

radiophonic workshop flyer

On december 2nd I played live in Etalage De Derde Wal in Nijmegen during the Radiophonic Workshop evening. Bertin‘s Korg MS20 spiced things up a bit.

Other attendees were Frans de Waard (Beequeen, Kapotte Muziek, Zebra, Ezdanitoff, among many, many others) and Cotopaxi (Fyoelk, Moemlien).

Recording added here.

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USB soundcards on Debian and Ubuntu

To my frustration, I noticed that my trusty Edirol UA-25 refused to work properly on Ubuntu 10.04. I spend quite some time tracking this problem down; eventually I found out that USB soundcards are moved down in priority.

The result of this are, among other things:

  • Jackd won’t start
  • Pd won’t find the soundcard
  • Mixxx won’t start

In other words, no end of grief.
On Ubuntu, this started from 9.10 on (and because of this, also affects Pure:Dyne), on Debian this affects Squeeze.

Fortunately, there’s a simple solution!

On Debian’s bug-tracker, I found the following simple fix:
in /etc/modprobe.d/ create a file called local.conf. In this file, add the lines

alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=0

Reboot, or do sudo alsa reload and you’re done.

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new videos; now with added youtubes

I decided to temporarily use youtube as a host for my videos. Saves server space and is easier to link and embed. Also, the HTML5-style links don’t seem to work too well from a remote server.

Oh well. I don’t really like it but it works.

Videos here. The direct download links to the .ogvs are still there for the flash impaired.

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MedMud live @ Tape

I did a short gig at Tape, in Arnhem, sept 24 2010. Tapes, 2 delays, short wave radios.

(camera: Mark Kuijpers)

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i edit video, too

Short impression of the Zirkus 8Bahn dance-festival, sept 4, 2010, Arnhem

Music by:

  • Jazzsteppa
  • Brandt, Brauer, Frick
  • Wilcoo & Pindu
  • Luke Slater
  • Aux Raux

Camera: Pako Tan

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videoglitch


MedMud – Cartilage (direct download)

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microaccoustic


MedMud – Bal-impuls(direct download)

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sounds from space, visualized

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back, and stuff

Looks like opnemer.org is back up. Hopefully, it’s back to stay.

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