This patch is for the premier performance of “The Little Death Volume 2″ by Matt Marks. I control it with a trigger finger. It plays backing tracks when I hit specified pads. I can mix their vocals and the tracks. I can control delay and reverb. There is also some eq and compression going down under the hood. The patch is rather simple but it runs extremely lean on CPU so I can set the vector size really low. This is really key because Matt expressed the importance of low latency performance.
I’ll be running a max patch I wrote for Matt Marks at the MATA festival. Here is the bulrb:
“The second evening of the Festival is a stunning collection of composer/performers and is highlighted by two works that deal with large-scale installations as sculptural elements and massive hand-constructed instruments: Cecilia Lopez’s Mechanical Music for Sheet Metal and Eli Kezler’s Cold Pin, using a monumental collection of piano mechanisms taken apart and re-organized as a motorized, whirring, machine – in both cases, live musicians resonate and play against these giant structures. Matt Marks presents a sneak preview of his new pop opera on love and religion in America, The Little Death: Vol. 2, with Mellissa Hughes; and Kate Soper presents her gripping ten-minute microdrama, Only the words themselves mean what they say. Jacob Cooper presents the second installation of his newly-created video work, Triptych: II. Black or White.”
THE MATA FESTIVAL, an annual springtime explosion of new music, offers a bracing overview of the styles that young composers and performers are exploring right now. This year’s prospectus is dominated by indie classical works — hybrids in which classical, avant-garde, pop and world music elements are combined to yield results that are not quite in any of those languages. An opening-night performance and party at the Paula Cooper Gallery includes performances by the inventive loadbang ensemble, as well as electronic remixes of works from festival concerts by the electronica virtuoso Preshish Moments.
April 17, 2012 Opening Night Salon @ Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street New York, NY 10011
For tickets, purchase a festival pass through Roulette (link coming shortly) for $100 including VIP seating at all nights of the festival and a pass to the opening night salon.
Individual tickets for the opening night salon can also be purchased here:
I’ll be playing the tape parts in this lovely piece, tomorrow at Le Poisson Rouge. Details are here. Here is the blurb:
“One hundred years to the day of the Titanic’s sinking, on April 15, 1912, Le Poisson Rouge will present New York’s only centennial anniversary performance of Gavin Bryars’ ambient elegy “The Sinking of the Titanic,” for orchestra and electronics. Performed in-the-round by the venue’s house band, Ensemble LPR, along with regulars from the Wordless Music Orchestra.”
Improv tonight in L.A. at Home Room! I’m looking forward to playing a short set that doesn’t involve sheet music or 1,000 presets. Check out the venue listing here:
I just arrived at the clubhouse in Rhinebeck NY to record Zeena and the Adorables. The studio is beautiful and has some incredible stuff in it including: a mellotron, a rhodes, a leslie, a jukebox that plays 45′s, and 1,000 other cool things yet unexplored. I can’t wait to record! Check out the studio here: http://www.clubhouseinc.com/main.html
Ayako Kataoka/Shayna Dunkelman
