Saturday, July 2, 2011

Saturday set for download

http://www.mediafire.com/?ai4hkj9jzjokmc0

FREE!!!
I hope you like it :)

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Show today at 11am SLT and news about the album.

Hey folks!
Today I am back at the Germelshausen Coffeeshop at 11am SLT!
Long time since I played in SL, so this is my first gig in 2 weeks. I hope you can make it.
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/15/218/103

In another news. By request, the mp3 download of "Deep Rooted Universe" is available in SL too!
It costs 1300L, and you get instant download of the album in a note card. No need for paypal, bandcamp, big cartel, shipping information, e-mails, etc...
You can find the vendor here:
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Oasis%20Beach/155/43/1512

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

New Video!

I love these blog posts when I can post video's with my music in it.
This one is again by Aiden Witral, as you remember he makes all those good atmospheric machinima video's in Second Life, both of static, moving life and live performances of artists.
The music is the set I did at his island last week to a audience of few people, but it was a really nice event and I was glad to play there again.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Will Wright and Brian Eno!

If you have an hour and half to spare, I strongly suggest you to check out this video with Will Wright and Brian Eno's presentation about Generative Music, Art and many other subjects. Loved every minute of it.
http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Will_Wright_and_Brian_Eno

Thursday, June 2, 2011

If you are wondering how I do all this! (PART 2)

Its been few weeks and I completely forgot to write you how I do all this!
By all this I mean stream/ play/ record my music and virtualy "send" it to your sound speakers.
As you may know, or wonder I play my music all live. No DJ'ing, no predefined or prerecorded (only for few field recordings or some audio files I might drop in). All you hear or have heard is a composition I improvised or composed on the go. Each set is a completely new song or composition that will never be repeated.
The Hardware part, I use a electric guitar or a bass plugged in my Phase 26 USB sound card which is used to record and play live guitar or bass sounds through Ableton Live. To control loops and record I use a Behringer BCD3000, a DJ Midi Controller which works perfectly for live control on what you do with the program. To play the piano, synthesizers and other type of noises I use a Korg nanoKey which is set on lower octave and a Miditech Midistart Music 49 USB Controler, which is on the higher octave. It's pretty easy to use both as you can use the nanoKey for basslines and the Miditech to play compositions or chords on the piano and synths. As you can say its all digital. Sadly can't really afford for a good analog synthesizer to play with.
On the software part, I use Ableton Live 8 together with some VST plugins I've found around. From the beginning of my set I start with a fresh New Live set, or I usually start with my "empty.als" file which contains 4 blank audio channels and 2 Midi Channels. As they are preset to work with my midi controller, this is faster way to predefine the buttons instead of having 3 minute radio silence. Audio channels are to record my guitar or bass loops, and the midi to loop and "record" the synthesizer. The music I create is pretty generative, as to say its slowly revolving around a composition or with time it develops into something different. To say its generative it revolves around the process of having many loops played alongside, as to which one is shorter than the other loop is longer than the previous. It creates this soundscape which changes with time, and you can improvise along it.

Low prices for the weekend on "Deep Rooted Universe"

Hey folks, until the 6th the prices of "Deep Rooted Universe" are lowered!
Digital Download is 2.99$
Physical CD is 12$ (included shipping)
Deal ends until: 6th June!!
http://krakovletov.bandcamp.com/album/deep-rooted-universe