The Journey into Live Modular Synths, a talk by Mylar Melodies
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- čas přidán 26. 09. 2018
- Here's a talk I gave about making a live modular improvisational system, and the many tips, tricks and lessons I've learned along the way so far. It's a bit of a brain dump of insights I've been picking up over the last few years, then a quick demo (plus we chat about some specific modules), and questions. Hit me up in the comments if you have some yourself!
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Great video! I agree with the "practice like it is a real gig" advice, but it's a specific type of practice, helps with endurance and learning to let go when you screw up, but at the same time, I believe it is also helpful to have other types of deliberate practice sessions during which you work on a very specific aspect of your live that you want to make better. Like for example a special type of transition that you want to nail every time, some tempo change routine, make your sound evolve in a certain way. Those kind of moments can be improved with repeated specific practice, and will certainly help during the longer sessions
“Don’t just fill the sound spectrum like a big sausage” = Favourite piece of advice ever :)
Very interesting... I saw William Basinsky this weekend. He stood there in front of a mac for an hour and played loops from Ableton (I think) thru a distortion mixer - but it was amazing. He was so assured of his right to be there, made us listen and engage through his confidence. Gave meaning and value to ambient for me, as a live form.
I could spend the rest of my life listening to you talk about modular synths. I got into modular after watching your review of the akemie’s castle, bought one, and built a system and am now deep down the rabbit hole. You’re the man!
Really respect the openness you have in talking about your modular journey, very helpful for others messing round with this stuff! Thanks
Man! Your videos about modular and performance are amazing and so informative! You totally sold me on the DFAM in your other vids. Keep doing what you are doing. Fantastic. Your ability to take a subject that can appear fairly impenetrable up front and make it accessible is a gift. Keep it up!
It's your enthusiasm that went a long way towards turning these tools into the specific tool I needed.
DJ SHADOW still one of the best shows i have ever been to, total performer, i remember him in his MPC heyday and the shit he pulled on stage via MPC linked to lighting, mind blown
This was the best talk yet that you've given on live performing! Fantastic.
that voice ... you are my personal morgan freeman of eurorack ;D i bet even listening to you reading the telephone book would be awesome xD
I have never listened so intensely to any talk before! You have a lot of responsibility for my modular addiction! - So thank you! - BTW, On your rig update some time ago, you talked about DI and you did not understood why sound engineers insist on use them. Here is the awnser: The main reason is to make a unbalanced signal - a ballenced signal. (Allso: The most stageracks have only XLR in, so a DI converts the jack to XLR aswell, AND most DI have a ground lift, so you can use the DI to deal with hum aswell) Like you pointed out in the video, not all DI are the same, so bring your own (high end) one is a GREAT advice, so thanks for that! :D
Great talk! I've learned a lot from watching your videos and podcast and would love to attend one of these talks. For the last 6 months I've been exploring modular, slowly building a 3u 104 hp skiff piece by piece. The system I had in my head in the beginning and how my current system actually turned out are completely different. Even the way I play it is completely different than how I imagined I would use it. I set out to build the groovebox of my dreams and ended up with an instrument I had never imagined possible. Besides drums and percussion, I can't think of any other musical instrument in existence that offers the player both the empowerment of determining it's functional design and an almost infinite flexibility of how it's played.
Thanks for all your enthusiastic lectures on modules. Good to see your face, looking as sympathetic as you sound. You are a brilliant teacher and as you seem like a patient and welcoming person I hope some kids ever get the chance to learn something from you to.
A looper pedal has become my definite safety net! Im sending different sections of my system, and sending it back into a filter and my aux reverb, so very easy to make nice changes and progressions without stoping the sound or having to loose your patch
This talk is so excellent. I got so much out of it in terms of workflow and live approach. And I feel much more confident about my upcoming gig where I’ll be doing modular for the first time live.
That was brilliant - really didnt feel like an hour went by there.
Just stumbled on this whilst checking out your playlists. Brilliant talk.
Fantastic talk, and inspiring! Thank you for sharing this.
Cheers for putting this up Alex, LOTS of useful info and things to think about even for non modular peeps. Don't try and do too much, you won't enjoy it and neither will your audience, amen.
Really interesting. 'Just slow down', great advice. Wish I could achieve this (in life as well!). Great post.