Paris Treantafeles: Web Visuals and More
Full Size Poster with more info is HERE.
Saturday Sept 13th, 2008 Baltimore will be having a Synth DIY/Circuit Bending/Chiptune Festival - wow - lots going on!
In the evening there will be chiptunes show featuring musical acts:
With visuals by:
Where:
The Hexagon 1825 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD
If you are in the Baltimore area, come check us out!
Thanks to a great ebay purchase of 99 cents, I now I have Gameboy Camera!
Using this along with the video output adapater means…. live Gameboy Camera in the mix!
At SxSW I borrowed one of these from Receptors and it turned out to be a great addition to the set - so hoping to do the same again in some upcoming shows.
Yes, that’s me and yes, that’s a Re-Format The Planet movie poster in the background 
Hopefully you are still planning to attend the Aug 30th Pulsewave!
And now for some updates…
First the bad news… Goferboy will NOT be performing. This saddens me greatly since I was so looking forward to hearing his version of “Take on me”!
Now the good news… instead, noteNdo who we all know for his great circuit bent visuals will be performing an audio set!
And one more update regarding my set….
For those of you who pay attention to such things (and you know who you are!) my set will feature dozens of BRAND NEW EQUATIONS making heaving use of ANDs and ORs.
Not only equations but I’ve added two new step functions to my look up tables! Much math goodness for your enjoyment
So.. once again - August 30th, 2008 at the Knitting Factory - all info is here!
Due to the popular demand, BlipFestival Reformat the Planet will be on Pitchfork.tv for another week! I think that means somewhere around the 29th of Aug?
This has been a great opportunity for people to view the documentary and has raised some questions!
Yes… I have received questions from friends and family who have until now only heard about all of this. So… here’s a mini FAQ regarding my little appearance in the movie…
Q. I thought you used hand held consoles. What’s up with the laptop?
A. Right. When the interview was done I was making the transition and didn’t have anything to show and tell on a hand held. The following year at Blipfestival I only used hand helds - a GP2x and a Gameboy Advance.
Q. Yo Mr. Open Source! What’s with the Mac? What’s that software you are running?
A. Calm down my friend!
The software is Pure Data which IS open source (and multi platform).
Again at the time of the interview my POS HP laptop died badly (where I was running Debian Linux) and I had to borrow the Mac which by the way, runs Pd just fine.
Q. Are you always so gay?
A. No, sometimes I’m much gayer.
Q. Are you always so punk?
A. No, sometimes I’m much punker.
Q. Are you really THAT OLD?
A. No, sometimes I’m much older!
Oh WHERE has Summer Gone!
What could be a better way to end the Summer and be in cool anticipation of NYC Fashion week than this month’s Pulsewave? Organized by the most stylish man in chiptunes Natty Adams, this event is a not to be missed chiptune fashionista affair - so dress to impress! (i KNOW you can do better than me, scrambling for a clean t-shirt and jeans!)
Music by:
Visuals by:
Date (one more time): AUG 30, 2008
Time: 9:00 PM
Location (NOTE THIS!!!):
Knitting Factory Old Office (i.e. the basement)
74 Leonard St (Between Church and Broadway)
Hope to see you there!
Many people have asked me when and where they can see the movie Reformat The Planet - a documentary by 2 Player Productions about the first Blipfestival, the chiptunes scene, etc.
Good news!
For one week (starting today I guess) - it can be watched online (the whole thing) at Pitchfork.tv
Enjoy it while it’s up there!
Shameless self promotion: my graphics are featured throughout (back when i was doing everything with Pd instead of consoles but still…)
When I was in Hawaii, my friend of many years Timothy Hendricks (23 degrees) generously gave me his TR-909 (of course I still consider it a LOAN). Tim and I have done a lot of music together back in the day. Reggae and House. His group 23 Degrees tore up San Francisco in the mid 90’s.
Not only do I love the 909 sounds (think Acid House!) but it is of the time period that it has MIDI plus Roland Sync and…. Trigger Output! I love triggers because I use them to control other analog devices. Although you can sample all the sounds, I find that there’s things that I can do with control voltages and triggers that I would never have come up with in a strictly MIDI set up.
So… as a welcome to my new house guest (the 909), I have set up my gear and will start recording some new tracks soon I hope!
Here’s some pics:
From left to right… Top is a Moog Prodigy, below is a Moog Source. Next is a Korg 770. Behind that is an ARP 2600. In front of the ARP are two Obeheim modules: a SEM and an analog sequencer. In front of these is a Roland 606 drum machine (two triggers out!). Below is a closer pic of these:
Below are some effects, a StudioMaster Mixer and monitors.
Left is an Akai S-950, top of the keyboard stand is a Casio CZ-1000 and below a Yamaha DX11
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