Mark Mosher: Experimental Electronic Musician from Boulder, CO. Synthesis | Synthesist, Composer, Keyboardist, Performer

Interludes for Theremin & Blofeld + Portable Group AudioCube Improvisation System

Up till now, when I perform live I’ve been using a 100% laptop-based rig with virtual synthesizers. I’ve been considering incorporating my awesome Waldorf Blofeld hardware synthesizer into the mix for local shows and use it to do some improvisational interludes between songs. I’m experimenting with this idea and I’m currently working on a piece where I use a Theremin play multiple layers of sounds on from the Blofled. It’s going very well, so perhaps you’ll see/hear all this in a future performance.

I’m also working on a new project that would allow 2-4 people to perform improvisational music and soundscapes using tangible and spatial control with 6 Percussa AudioCubes. I’ll be sharing my methods and templates under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License opening this up to others.

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
www.MarkMosherMusic.com

Two Live Electronic Music Performance Videos for Free Music Friday - "Alone" and "Celebration and Voices"

Here are two videos for you for Free Music Friday.

Watch embedded video of “Alone” by Mark Mosher

This video has an HD version as well so check it out from your home theater using your Tivo or or other streaming box.

In this video I'm playing my original instrumental electronic music song "Alone" from my album REBOOT (http://markmosher.bandcamp.com/album/reboot name your price, enter $0 for FREE). I'm about half way through arranging and programming the synthesizers and controllers so I can add this song to my live set. I'm pretty excited about the progress I'm making on the performance so I thought I'd share a rehearsal video.

It's such an organic and textural piece, I decided to play the entire song from Percussa AudioCubes using only spatial control via hand movement. Ableton Live is playing back the pulsing drone, but almost all other elements are being played live via the AudioCubes. The AudioCubes are in "sensor" mode so placing my hand in front of a cube face plays a note on a virtual synthesizer hosted out of Ableton Live - almost like a Laser harp.

I only use the Novation Launchpad on my right to change which tracks are armed thereby allowing me to switch which synths I'm playing on-the-fly throughout the song.  At the 2:00 minute mark I start playing chords by using multiple faces simultaneously.

Watch embedded video for “Celebration and Voices”.

In this video, I'm rehearsing an original composition "Celebration and Voices" from my album I Hear Your Signals (http://markmosher.bandcamp.com/album/i-hear-your-signals name your price, enter $0 for FREE).

I'm using a Novation Launchpad and Ableton Live 8 to control the session, effects, and I’m playing melodies in real-time from the Launchpad.

Composer Notes
Even though these songs are from two different albums, the are related in that they tell the same story from two points of view.

Enjoy,

Mark Mosher
www.MarkMosherMusic.com

Composer Notes: The tale "Infected" vs "When Connected"

As a composer I like writing with a back-story and characters in mind. This helps me create emotional dynamics and gives the album context when you listen to it one sitting. I’m not going to give too much away as I’d rather you interpret the songs in your own way – but I will say that I Hear Your Signals is a retelling of the same story that I started in Reboot but from a different point of view.

The stories intersect at the songs "Infected" and "When Connected". I created this Soundcloud set so you could hear them back-to-back.  Listen to these two tracks a few times to see how these songs are two sides of an emotional coin. See you on the other side…

"Infected" vs "When Connected" by MarkMosher

Mark Mosher
Electronic Musician, Boulder, CO
www.MarkMosherMusic.com