Michael Grothaus from TUAW.COM did a very nice write-up on our Machine Orchestra:
Apple and the Rise of the Machines: Don’t worry, they’re just here to rock.
by Michael Grothaus (RSS feed) on Jan 23rd 2010 at 2:00PM
Whenever I heard “robots” and “Los Angeles” used in the same sentence, I thought of only one thing: the end of the freaking world as we know it. But all that’s changed after I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at a current rise of a group of machines happening at a company called KarmetiK, and what I saw there literally rocked me.
If you’re into Macs and music and live in the LA area, I’ve got a treat for you. The world premiere of The Machine Orchestra will take place at REDCAT Theater in downtown LA on Wednesday, January 27th at 8:30pm. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend you check it out.
What is a machine orchestra, you ask? Imagine a crate full of Apple computers, musical instruments, Terminators, and cutting edge technicians and musicians. Now take that crate, shake it up, and spill it out onto a stage. What you’re left with is a group of robotic machines that play musical instruments alongside human artists – all controlled by software written for and running on Macs.
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Jan. 27th, 2010: The Machine Orchestra
The Machine Orchestra brings together custom-built robotic musical instruments and human performers with modified instruments, unique musical interfaces, and hemispherical speaker-pods. For a video preview of the robotic ensemble, click here.
The Machine Orchestra brings together custom-built robotic musical instruments and human performers with modified instruments, unique musical interfaces, and hemispherical speaker-pods. Directed by Ajay Kapur, KarmetiK founder and Director of Music Technology at CalArts, The Machine Orchestra features performances by North Indian sarodist Ustad Aashish Kahn, electronic artist Curtis Bahn, Balinese gamelan master Nyoman Wenten, and vocal synthesis innovator Perry Cook. With production design by Michael Darling. Students from the emerging Music Technology program at CalArts will be featured alongside these skilled performers, breathing new technological life into the instruments and music normally found playing in traditional World Music ensembles. This one-of-a-kind performance features new compositions melding musical tradition with modern engineering.
The world premiere of The Machine Orchestra will take place at REDCAT on Wednesday, January 27th 2010 at 8:30pm. Please visit the REDCAT site for box-office and ticketing information.
The Machine Orchestra features: Ajay Kapur | Curis Bahn | Aashish Khan | Nyoman Wenten| Perry Cook | Carl Burgin | Dimitri Diakopoulos | Jordan Hochenbaum | Jim Murphy | Owen Vallis | Meason Wiley | Tyler Yamin
This event is supported in part through Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum and the Durfee Foundation Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant.
For information about tickets to this event, please visit www.redcat.org.
My good friend Francis Preve has been kind enough to mention the MLGI in a recent interview with M-Audio. To read the full article, click HERE.
M-Audio Gives Back for the Holidays
DJ/producer Francis Preve teaches next-gen musicians—with a little help from M-Audio
It’s a little-known fact that DJ/producer Francis Preve is also a professor at Austin Community College. This Texas-based school offers one of the most comprehensive music business programs in the state—with areas of focus ranging from management and promotion to audio engineering and electronic music production. The Commercial Music Management curriculum at ACC is one of the many reasons Austin holds the title of “Live Music Capitol of the World.”
Preve—whose tracks have topped both the Billboard and Beatport charts in the past few years—is one of the principal faculty members teaching the school’s electronic music courses, which include synthesizer programming and remixing. Alumnus of his sound design classes include white-hot trance wünderkinds, Tritonal, and Meason Wiley—inventor of a set of open-source gestural laser controllers that are creating quite a buzz in the DIY tech world.
Thanks to the nice people at www.synthtopia.com for writing a few words about the MLGI. They have been very consistent and supportive of my work and I am very appreciative! To read what they had to say, click on the following link. Synthtopia MLGI Post
