live performance. semigenerative ambient. cascading tones and textures. reworking material from a song on my upcoming album.
four stems are sampled into the orthogonal devices er-301, one per audio output/track. each sample has been divided into many small slices. each playhead is independently scrolled through those slices by CV from the first monome ansible (running the cycles app), which is performed by rotating the encoders on the arc.
the second ansible, running meadowphysics, generates cascading gates, two per er-301 track, that trigger playback of the slices selected by the first ansible + arc. each row on the monome grid corresponds to one gate being sent when the countdown reaches the far left edge, which is reset to a random position within its row according to the range chosen on the grid.
the qubit mixology is used as a live performance mixer to bring the tracks in and out of focus, and also as an effects send to mutable instruments clouds. mannequins cold mac is used as a stereo VCA return, as the mixology lacks a send/return volume slider. a few clouds parameters are slowly modulated using isms’ builtin LFOs, offsets, and VCAs.
this is my first time using the er-301, which is intended to be a central part of future songs and sets. the goal is to explore live performance possibilities, after experimenting with what this workflow might be like in a previous video, cloudsurfing (vimeo.com/ioflow/cloudsurfing). setting up a semicontrolled environment, and watching songs emerge over time. occasionally interacting, but also sitting back and just letting surprises happen.
