There are lots of exciting happenings in the world of Progtronica at the close of the decade, one that will be looked back on as the worst in recorded music history (but more on that later). I have been hard at work preparing material for the release of my first solo ep “Progtronica – Live From Nowhere” which will be released in early 2010. The concept of “Progtronica” is the blending of sounds in an electronic music context, which stretches the bounds of what is known to be “electronic dance music” through the use of live and re-sampled drums, odd time signatures, shifting beats, and a health dose of 20th century minimalist inspired rhythmic melodic textures. My aim is to compose the music so that it can be constantly re-mixed live with no limits on the detentions of time, sound and rhythm, while keeping the all important human element that is missing from almost all of today’s music (not just of the electronic dance variety).
In this post are 2 recent live home performances: ”Progtronica – Live Extended Outdoor Edition” recorded outside on my deck under the setting sun of Long Beach California on December 20th. The second video is “Progtronica 2” which features a mix of triggered drum samples and live drumming on Roland V-Drums in a shifting 5/4 time. Both were recorded and performed using Ableton Live 8 and Novation’s new “Launchpad” a dedicated Ableton controller. All the drums are played by me live at some point, either at the point of performance, or at the beginning of composition. The other sounds are usually created from scratch using Ableton’s software instriments, or my manipulating samples of found sounds, chopping, editing, and transposing them to make melodic and harmonic phrases and textures.
Stay tuned for more info about the upcoming release which will be available for download and traditional CD purchase online through this website and all the other places where one finds music to add to their collection now days. After the release I plan to take this show on the road so watch out!
***UPDATE 9/18/2010*** as of now the “Progtronica Extended Outdoor” video has had over 12,000 views on YouTube thanks to a link on novation-launchpad.com which got picked up on a bunch of other blogs as well as lots of friends posting it on Facebook,
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