Tonight is time for.. a cycling 365 post. Here goes a take from a study about Ligeti polyrhythms using the max for live patch by Bruno Gallo. Thank you Bruno. Ligeti polyrhythm #2 by Rui Gato

Today is time for some new gear. Thanks to mister André Pinto, i got infected with the Korg MONOTRON virus. I was hoping to get a MONOTRIBE, but, unable to find one, i got the MONOTRON instead. What a small beast it is! It’s already a legend for me, and also my second acquisition in the realm of true analog. And it will not be the last for sure… So, here are two snippets from today’s improv session one, with the MONOTRON and the THEREMIN on track one, and the MONOTRON and a looper on track two: Monotron #1 by …

Here is a more intricate use for the Synapse middleware by Ryan Challinor; this time, i’ve mapped my left hand X value (relative to my body) to a MIDI pitch shift; my right hand Y value (also relative to body) to MIDI notes, ascending; my right foot Y value to note release time; my left foot ‘kick’ (Z axis fast move) to toggle a pulse oscillator on the synth; and my left hand ‘punch’ (Z axis fast move) to toggle the MIDI pitch shift. also my right hand Z (relative to body) is mapped to a send for the memoryman …

today i’ve spent one hour of my day experimenting on Euclidean Rhythms, and recorded a snippet of that ongoing work: Euclidean1 by Rui Gato   with this experiment i’ve decided that, just like i do with my cycling activity, i should start giving a part of my day, every time i have the opportunity, to exercise my experimental and improvisation capabilities. Right in the same way i do exercise my bike riding every time i can, for one hour or so. so i’ve started the cycling ‘365 project, in witch i will keep posting snippets of music and whatever appears, …

TONE SCIENTISTS + GUESTS (Rui Toscano, Rui Valério) + (Fernando Fadigas, João Paulo Feliciano, Rui Gato, André Pinto, Augusto Sanches) 23 de Junho – 22h Concert without electro-acoustic reproduction. Instead of speakers, the musicians wear headphones. There were a pair available to one element of the audience at a time, and a confortable chair. Concept by the Tone Scientists (Rui Toscano, Rui Valério). Thanks to the Scientists for the invitation, it was really nice to play tonight! [nggallery id=1]

  This is a small experiment on natural user interface, using a kinect and synapse middleware by Ryan Challinor. Tomorrow will post some music made with this system, it really becames expressive after a while. edit: here it is. Carpal tunnel relief (bit) by Rui Gato

today my electro-harmonix memoryman stompbox got back to life, after i’ve discovered that the problem was a fried up diode in the protection circuit at the power inlet. a small drop of solder solved (temporary solution) the mutism of the blue man, remaining operational hopefully until next thursday for live manglings @ Quadrum Gallery. here’s a recording from yesterday’s solo improv session @ the studio, to celebrate the beginning of the Summer (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere). Needles and FM with piezo and modAxis theremin bass dub with soundrop (to celebrate the summer) by Rui Gato

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