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Author: cbit on March 12 2007 Viewed 1978 times. 11 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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This weekend i played a set at a lovely local venue called Worm, there i finally met Tom Verbruggen (Toktek) who was also playing that night (i'd heard his name respectfully whispered for about a year already).
As toktek he sits at a table with two special joysticks (the blingy kind that flight simulator enthusiasts might buy) and an array of circuit bent gadgetry, other instruments, and a microphone. He introduces his improvisational set in a disarmingly humble, almost apologetic way but when he begins glitchy sparks fly.
Most interestingly for me: i couldn't work out how he was doing what he was doing with those two joysticks - and i still don't know exactly. Each twitch on those grips seemed to either trigger a blistering shower of dirty synthetic percussion or re-sample, loop and modulate audio that was already passing through the system. He made it look like a lot of fun.
During the sound check i had the chance to investigate his set up a bit more closely and he enthusiastically began explaining it to me, sadly time was too short for me to absorb it properly but an important fact that i did manage to comprehend was that the 'nerve center' was an application running on his powerbook called LiSa X.
He explained that traditionally it gets used a lot for abstract ambient soundscape work, but his set made it very clear that it can be put to stunning use for teh beatz too.
So the next day i downloaded the demo and began experimenting link it's lovely. I fed it midi from ableton live via IAC (os x's smart inter-application midi thingy) and piped the resulting audio back into live via soundflower.
As far as the SOAG granular stuttery stuff goes this is the best instrument i've found for it yet.. and the fact that it's a sampler which actually samples live is quite special too.
So: i don't yet know how/if i can incorporate it into my setup in a permanent way, but it's superfine software in any case! and i wanted to introduce it to anyone who might not have heard of it, and to do the same for toktek.
a lovely toktek track +video: link
A clip of toktek live (but the worm gig was much better ;) )
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03/12/07
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everamzah
omg excellent blog + video - thanks!! :D
03/12/07
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everamzah
how was ur show btw?
edited: Mar 12 2007
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cbit
tanks! the show went well: badly promoted though so it felt like most of the people ion the (little) room where the guys playing there  .. thats a slight exaggeration.. but you know the feeling. Enough people were paying attention to make it enjoyable though
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DrexonField
Very cool
03/12/07
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yghartsyrt
that clip looked like a lot of fun
i totally forgot about lisa.
it seems like ages since it has been last mentioned somewhere
but cheers for reminding me cbort
03/12/07
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Geddupnoise
wow that looked pretty sweet.
nice blog:-D
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wakax
sweet jesus lisa is so cool.
i already use their junxion and is really cool !
03/13/07
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Bluermutt
That's what the lovely Kaffe Matthews uses. And she usually makes empty hard drive show only using real-time sampled material.
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yghartsyrt
that software is way over my head.
or maybe i'm just not patzient enuff
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papergoose
rad.
love to see what you can do with it. looks fun.
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lematt
yeah i saw Lisa X ages ago... but, can't you make the same thing with max ?
03/14/07
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cbit
can't you make the same thing with max ?
probably (or reaktor or synthedit etc)
edited: Mar 18 2007
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cbit
ah: There was some discussion about recreating it in reaktor but it seemed it wasn't possible due to some limitation with the way reaktor handles audio buffers, don't know about max though..
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