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At 10:49 am +0100 22/10/01, adinda van 't klooster wrote:
I am just moving into the field of laptop performance and will start with LiSa exactly because it's supposed to be simple, I'm still to find out & currently waiting for the labtop first of all. One downside about LiSa though is that you can only have two simultaneous ins and outs, I wonder if there are any other mac programms which allow for more live channels to be sampled simultaneously.
I would be interested in doing a laptop jam once I've figured it out a little bit more. I must say though I am not a musician, I just love sound. Especially real/modified sounds because we live we these all the time anyway but are only subconsciously aware of them, for a lot of the time anyway. This subconscious 'nature' of our experience of sound makes it quite a powerfull tool. I am going to STEIM in February for a week of research and trying out - when are you performing there?
Adinda
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>From: "Chris Dooks"
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: SOUND / LAPTOP COMPOSITION / SOFT SAMPLERS / STEIM / ROCKETS / MAX PATCHES
>Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:00:29
>
>Dear Ambit folks
>
>This email is generally of interest to those making sound work - be
>it music
>or whatever - however I have to say that because of this list i did
>attend
>Cavan's rocket making workshop yesterday at the Edinburgh Royal
>Observatory
>and it was brilliant. I want to make another one....(!)
>
>I think it's great (for me especially) to see so many people asking
>about
>sound but I also agree with other comments on this list that debate
>should
>be brief and responses short.
>
>But can I ask that people posting messages put accurate subject
>headings as
>to what the mail is about - that's basic list etiquette and makes
>the list
>work best, I reckon. like most people, I am on a few different lists
>and no
>one likes to spend all day trying to work out if a message is
>relevant.
>
>OK, and now a longer message on sound stuff.
>
>1. Someone was asking about are their any lap top folks out there
>making
>sound in this way ?
>
>Sure, ME ! I worked with loads of other great folks via the net
>(Frank
>Bretschneider / janek Schaefer / Smyglyssna / Third Eye Foundation)
>from
>electro-acoustic to dance to sound art to contemporary mouse music,
>to
>academic wank, you name it ! I am delighted there are others on the
>llist
>doing this also.
>
>Well I am a musician on www.bip-hop.com (buy my new album ! go on
>!!!) and I
>use a whole host of packages on the Mac platform. I use a lot of dsp
>stuff
>within bias PEAK and PLUGGO effects in Cubase and my soft sampler is
>the
>fantastic HALion on Cubase. I have millions of soft synths and
>samplers and
>started out mainly with shareware for the lot before I went and
>bought
>packages. This is not always the kit list of choice from cold
>austere
>electronic heids. I have interest in REAKTOR / MAX and so on, having
>worked
>a little with Autechre and SND in Sheffield - both of whom are
>purists in
>this way. But i don't want to spend all day programming - I think
>the best
>software is the often the simplest (or simplest designed) - I mean,
>I am a
>funded artist who uses IMOVIE !!! most people don't believe this
>when I tell
>them that - even though I trained on much more complex systems, but
>IMOVIE
>is extremely limited and I think less choice = more freedom, more
>clarity
>and focus for a project personally. It's not ideal for everything
>and is
>useless for a lot, but regarding sound stuff, DSoundpro is a great
>FREE mac
>sampler and it's fantastic. I like to think i abuse software rather
>than
>have people sneer at the fact I am a cubase user - it's what you do
>with it
>that counts...
>
>2. Laptop Composition
>
>I am a big fan of Mego style Vienniese stuff but am getting a bit
>bored of
>that now. I suppose the current laptop classic is Fennesz's ENDLESS
>SUMMER
>which is a flawed masterpiece of sorts. I have a G3 and G4 - my G3
>is the
>black variety and I currently learning STEIM's LiSa live sampling
>application on it. STEIM is based in Amsterdam and I have been
>invited to
>perform there recently. I am currently developing ideas to turn my
>recordings into live works so if anyone is interested in a laptop
>jam,
>preferably in Edinburgh then let me know !
>
>Basically I am a sound collaborator and have made works with loads
>of
>others, but am now getting fed up with glitch culture...so that's
>me.
>
>===================================
>
>Chris Dooks
>Artist in Residence
>
>Northern Region Film and Television Archive
>
>www.tees.ac.uk/artist
>
>===================================
>
>Bovine Life
>Social Electrics
>
>Chris Dooks' debut LP featuring collaborations with
>Kohn, The Third Eye Foundation, Janeck Schaefer
>and many more all stars of the alt.electronic scene
>out in September on www.bip-hop.com and through
>all discerning retailers.
>
>===================================
>
>Reciprocess
>Bovine Life and / or / Vs / Komet
>
>Chris Dooks and Frank Bretschneider's mp3 collaborative
>album out in November on www.bip-hop.com
>
>===================================
>
>
>
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