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

Photos and Video from My Remote Broadcast to the Pacific North West Synth Fest in Seattle

Photo courtesy of Matrixsynth

On October 29, 2011 I Skyped into the Pacific Northwest Synth Fest from my studio in Boulder. In this photo you can see I was being projected in the room and there was a laptop under the projection so I could see and hear the audience take questions. I presented on Percussa AudioCubes and performed a few songs. The laptop gives you a sense of scale for the projection size. I've been working on my streaming set up so that I can broadcast high fidelity audio, hear my rig in my headphones, plus hear the other side of the conversation in my headphones as well. It all worked great!

Matrixsynth captured the last 15 minutes of my talk on his iPhone 4s. A majority of the talk is on the technical detail of using Percussa AudioCubes so to spare you from the technical details I went ahead and placed a copy of the video bookmarked to start at a musical performance of the song “I Can See Them” from the album I Hear Your Signals. You can of course start from the beginning of the video to catch the talk.

I actually started the talk with a performance of “First Orbit” from the same album. I don’t have a copy of the footage from the talk at Synth Fest, but I did USTREAM a sound check of the song earlier that weekend.

Before and after the talk, I was interacting with festival goes in the “petting zoo” room where there were all sorts of demos going on. I answered questions on AudioCubes.

 
Photo courtesy of Matrixsynth

In this photo I’m playing a new song called “Control Zone” using a Moog Etherwave Theremin (pitch-to-MIDI) and a single AudioCube to control virtual synthesizers with 6 dimensions of spatial control.

Mark Mosher
Electronic/Experimental Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Synthesist | Composer | Keyboardist | Performer

Synth Geek Blog: http://modulatethis.com/
Artist Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com

Notes and Photos from May 2011 Ableton Colorado Meetup

Last night I gave a talk on using third-party virtual instruments within Ableton Live at the Ableton Colorado User Group. I also took the opportunity to use this as a test for a new sub-variation of my live rig – a minimal clean setup with only a laptop, a Remote SL 25 Key controller, and the UltraNova synth which doubled as a sound card.

The rig performed very well, took only minutes to setup (it’s only 2 USB cables and a power cable), and sounded great. I got to play a new UltraNova patch I’m working on at high volumes using the Walnut Room's awesome PA. Based on the reaction, I’d say the sound of UltraNova surprised some people in a good way.

Her is a photo slideshow (View set on Flickr)

David Henderson was kind enough to some of the pictures above.

If you’d like to learn more about the virtual synths I presented on last night, checkout this interactive mindmap (click on the “+” to expand a branch, and click on branches to visit related web sites). The map contains synths I mentioned in the talk as well as other picks.

View Embedded Map on Mindmeister

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Official Web Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com
Listen/Download Albums: www.MarkMosherMusic.com/music.html

I Had the Honor of Being a Guest Performer at Open House for New HyberCube in the C-Cubed Studio Space at the DU Digital Media Studies Program

The Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Denver just opened  their their fantastic new HyperCube studio performance space. I had the honor and pleasure to appear as guest performer for the open house. In attendance were staff, students and guests.

This was a “lights up” performance and talk and the theme of my performance and presentation was spatial controllerism with Ableton Live, Percussa AudioCubes, and Moog Etherwave Theremin. To illustrate concepts,  I played songs from my album “I Hear Your Signals” including “First Orbit” , “Control Zone”. I also played the song “Celebration and Voices” illustrating matrix controllerism with the Novation Launchpad.

It was a fantastic experience as the performance went well, the new space is awesome, and the crowd was enthusiastic and asked a lot of great questions about the art, technology, methodology, and technique.

Afterwards, I invited some students to take the AudioCubes for a spin. As always there was a lot of curiosity about the Theremin as well.

Many thanks to Trace Reddell, Ph.D. Director, Digital Media Studies and Darwin Grosse for the invite and for encouraging interaction and collaboration between academia and the larger community of electronic music artists. What a way to kick off my 2011 with this as my first performance!

See more the photos from this event in this Flickr set.

 

Links:

• http://www.du.edu/emad/ - Electronic Media Arts and Design site with pictures and videos from the opening
• Digital Media Studies web site http://dms.du.edu/

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