Posted on 08/05/2016
It’s Aunties Birthday… You may dismiss a standard preset style arranger keyboard as only belonging at your auntie’s birthday, but in fact they can be creatively abused to generate musically interesting patterns and sounds. The various styles each generate a different MIDI output. Any old arranger keyboard can be used for this purpose. Only requirement is that […]
Posted on 06/05/2016
I have always had an interest for randomness when creating synth sounds. Some of the very early DX-7 editors for the Commodore-64 computer featured a randomizing feature that produced completely unpredictable results. Most of it was useless, but every once in a while you would come up with a sound that you had not heard […]
Posted on 06/05/2016
The sound of a person speaking is actually a very complex audio event that contains a lot of interesting evolving waveforms, transients and formants. You can use this in a piece of music, by transforming the voice and breaking it up into elements. This can be done in many ways, and you will get a […]
Posted on 06/05/2016
After attending the Midem Festival in Cannes 4 times in recent years it has been obvious that the music business has transformed into an entirely different thing altogether. Up to around the early 00’s Midem and other music business trade fairs was probably still mostly about music companies going in order to meet other music companies […]
Posted on 05/05/2016
SInce 2010 I have been experimenting with the extensive meta-tagging of music, to try to find new ways to interact and present music. For the first version (1.0) of Fluxic I created the “Expanding Meta Work“, based on this. All music here has been tagged with a very large number of attributes, which provides new […]
Posted on 01/05/2016
POP MISSILES | Songs recorded in Thai 2 Pop Missiles songs – “Restless Night” and “Photograph” – have been recorded in Thai language during the summer. These are some of the first Pop Missiles songs to be finalized, so the music was already recorded. The lyrics have been beautifully translated by Timmy Petchabun, into a sophisticated, […]
Posted on 28/04/2016
Depending on your type you may want to organize yourself to be prepared for the moment when the muse hits. I find nothing more off-putting than having to deal with technical or organizing issues in the middle of an inspiring moment when you just want to get your ideas down. Over the course of many […]
Posted on 26/04/2016
SkyNet Improvisations is the first Fluxic Algorithmic music experiment. A simple bass line is the only element that was specifically created to act as a frame. All other elements have been selected, created, performed and mixed by the computer. The final result is merely a selection of interesting and matching pieces.
Posted on 22/04/2016
In 2016 Fluxic has started doing regular, improvised live performances in the studio for a small audience. In order to reach a wider audience, the concerts will be live streamed during 2016. A 4 camera setup has been installed in the studio, that will provide the images for the Wirecast software hosted by a Mac Pro. Experiments […]
Posted on 19/04/2016
In early 2016 I acquired the Arkaos “Grand VJ” software. This Mac OSX app can run MIDI-synchronised video, graphics and images to the music. You assign clips and images to MIDI note numbers and send these numbers from your DAW or MIDI sequencer in sync with the music. You can even perform the video live on […]