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This weekend I decided to spend a few minutes playing with the OctaveCAT synthesizer before packing it up (part of our preparations to move). In part, I simply wanted to make sure it was working, but it is also a great instrument for improvisation.
YouTube from stretta, via matrixsynth:
A demostration of a quick monome 256 music application I wrote.
Don't miss the cat at the end.
Luna sits at the controls of the studio here at CatSynth HQ.
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This Sunday we have another great find from the Interet Music Archive (archive.org). “Synthss” by nox30 is part of the compilation Música Experimental Brasileira ( Brazilian Experimental Music ), with artists from all over the country. You can listen to more tracks by nox30 and the other featured artists here.
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Time for another “CatSynth pic”, and so we turn to our friend Mimì from polynominal:
Here we see Mimì jealously guarding her SidStation from anyone who might dare to touch it (like me).
The SidStation is a full-function hardware synth based on the SID chip from the old Commodore 64/128 – people of my vintage are probably quite familiar with these systems. The SID was quite ahead of its time feature-wise, and now it is a great vintage concept.
The last performing stop on the tour last week was Saturday in Seattle:
Not exactly the Space Needle, but still some impressive communications towers, and not too far from our venue, the 1412 Gallery:
Photo by Polly Moller
I played a solo set, which I think was the best one of the tour, musically. I look forward to hearing the recordings soon. And of course, we did our Polly Moller and Company show:
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Polly has written a bit about our performance in Seattle, including how it was somewhat sparsely attended. This was in part due to the “Much Bigger Show” that occured in direct conflict to ours, and counted much of the experimental/improvised music community as audience or participants. We did get a chance to hang out together with them at Murphy's Irish Pub afterwards, where much drink, conversation and merriment was had by all…
Just a quick note this afternoon, from Astoria, Oregon. Our second show of the tour (third, if you count 1510 in Oakland) will be here in Astoria tonight, at the Astoria Visual Arts center. And I will also be performing a solo set to open, again with electronics and my folk and toy instruments.
We have posters all over town, and a great write-up in the Coast Weekend, a local paper.
Astoria itself is an interesting little town, at the mouth of Columbia River on the Oregon coast:
The coast highway runs through and north across the river into Washington state.
Here are a few photos from town:
And here is the band at the “Astoria Column”:
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More on the performance itself after it actually happens. Also, I might go backwards in time to our show and day yesterday in Portland…but in the meantime, Polly has already journaled the first two days of our tour…
