#43

got into her raster release --really nice

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#44

So maybe a first meet at Noon Friday in the American Tobacco Campus lawn near the water tower thing?

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#45

I’m at Moogfest. Looking forward to Sarah Belle Reid in a little bit.

#46

Sounds great! See y’all there

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#47

Thanks for the tip. SUPER dope.

#48

So can we also use this thread to discuss things we have seen? I’ll start it off with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. I greatly admire her work, but honestly it’s not really something I would listen to for pleasure. I was hoping she would be playing a truly live set, but I suppose that is a naive expectation.

She obviously had tracks playing in Live or something, synced to visuals (another reason to have a defined set), and then layered some live modular, vocals and triggering over the top. This is NOT to diminish the skill and artistry involved at all. The sounds were great. Awesome use of bass too.

So all-in-all very impressive…but I’d still love to hear her just jam on the modular in a minimal fashion for an hour instead!

Bonus content: looked like she had one of those fader thingies all the cool kids are making.

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#49

What the heck, I’ll keep going!

Author and Punisher. Brutalism! Down the same cul de sac as Surachai, whom I love. A&P has a more limited palette, but what he does use (hypo-distorted guitar/bass/synth thingie, which he modulates with a gigantic, custom over-engineered metal joystick through two gigantic ampeg bass cabinets!) sounds fantastic. Impressive use of space, pauses, and timing change-ups.

Jon Hopkins DJ set. Big T-storm rolled through, so not many people at the venue. JH actually strolled by me and I got to shake his hand and express my undying admiration. He was very sweet. His DJ set was really cool, but I’m at the point where straight DJ sets hold nearly zero interest to me. I’m much more interested in some sort of performative aspect. Curious to see how he pulls off his main set on Saturday.

Main take-aways–nothing new here–live music is now primarily BASS music. There must be emotional immersion.

Off for a quick work-out and then I’ll see some of you at noon. I have the silly long reddish (grayish) hair in the stupid man-bun.

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#50

See you guys in an hour! Me = beard, glasses, white Sumac t-shirt.

#51

I’m not here but just found out some of this fest is live streaming too. thank you internet :raised_hands:

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#52

Live streaming on now:

#53

Author and Punisher did a walk through of his devices and how he performs. Talk about making our cute little Monomes seem quaint! Hahaha. Really impressive performance rig he’s created. Pretty sure they were Live Streaming his presentation…

#54

Tonight’s plan: emptyset, Caterina Barbieri, Jon Hopkins. Possibly others, but that’s my main plan. :grin:

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#55

Richard Devine at 5?

#56

Oh yeah, that too! I just meant performance-wise.

#57

after party tonight with me, nick hook, and great locals slums, treee city and lady fingers if anyone wants to come - 12:30 to 3:30am upstairs at 305 e chapel hill street. password is apparently ‘we want Oprah’ for some reason. come say hi!

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#58

I mean, who…doesn’t want Oprah? I guess?

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#59

That was ridiculous. #richarddevine

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#60

everytime i listen to her work i always find myself thinking of Terry Riley and i wonder what her take on Riley’s earlier work is. This leads me to another thought. Have you all noticed that current electro/modular artists are putting out three and sometimes four records a year? I mean it must be super nice to get that work out there but i wonder is this just labels cashing in on their popularity and that of the vinyl rejuvenation or do they really have 5 albums of work each year to release? Again maybe i am being a curmudgeon and was raised with the one album a year vibe and of course technology has changed enabling more releases but in my old fashioned artist mentality it kind of removes some of the intrigue related to it

#61

John Hopkins Live. I love the man’s music, but just playing your record with some visuals is not engaging. Sorry.

Caterina Barbieri. Loved it. Kind of the simplistic, beautiful counterpoint to Author and Punisher. A little too minimal after a while. Pretty much just arpeggios with one or two voices. But much more performative and really well done. Classy and good vibes.

#62

Jealous. Hope to make it one year.