this is an unedited, hastily mixed live recording. made during a rehearsal of new material for 2021/2022 live shows.  all music improvised using max/msp.

tracklisting:
0:00 fures
4:39 wowub
11:12 junk tropics

at.live 2021-06-18 rehearsal jam (tracklist: fures / wowub / junk tropics)

Bitcrushed crazy frog

https://soundcloud.com/kaidiak/alberto-balsalm-150-bpm/s-lkpZNPfvhwu?si=31121ea4bf9f48178e0fa9a9550ca7a7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm (Kaidiak Cover)

New piece I debuted at a recent live set in ATL and then finished in the studio. Most likely forthcoming on a new VLSC experimental and ambient music comp. Chords are Cherry Audio Eight Voice run through amp sims and heavily saturated Valhalla shimmer verb, other voice is the Make Noise DPO with lots of lovely hard synced FM and waveshaping through the ModDemix and QMMG. Plus Valhalla Delay and Verb. Cover art by The Glad Scientist's AI worker bees buzz buzz.

Inner Orbits

Starting to explore microtonal possibilities with the Max for Live microtuner device. Started out with some simple diatonic explorations and ended up returning to Ptolemy's Intense Diatonic scale which I had previously used as part of my Cartesian Meditations series of Eurorack videos on my YouTube channel. Back then I just looked up the hz of the notes in the scale and used the unquantized outputs from Rene and tuned each step manually. Microtuner makes it way easier and I am looking forward to exploring more complex xenharmonic scales. The other exciting thing about doing microtonal stuff in Ableton is that I can explore polyphony much more easily. This patch is Operator with some delay, chorus, and reverb. I originally had the project file for this just called Ptolemy, but after seeing The Glad Scientist's lovely AI art for it, I decided to echo the title of my original modular piece, Ptolemy's Dream, with Medusa's dream. The stone, or perhaps the one whose gaze beholds a petrified world, dreams of lightness.

Medusa's Dream

The term "brain rot" dates back to Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden, but in the digital age, it has become Oxford University Press’ 2024 Word of the Year. With people averaging nearly seven hours of screen time per day, brain rot is defined by the publication as the result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging, with a particular emphasis on online content and social media.
 
Usage of the term increased by 230% between 2023 and 2024, and Eric Schumacher, professor of psychology specializing in the study of cognitive control, talks about how brain rot is spreading and how to stem the tide.

Generating Buzz: Understanding 'Brain Rot'

Legends

Performed by Equiknoxx
Mixing Engineer - Aleksander " Mothashipp " Molak
(Western Jive, Poland)
Mastering Engineer - Nick Sinna (Futureworks, Manchester, UK)
Distributed by Rubadub
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EQUIKNOXX - BROOKLYN

Lyrics: 

Somewhere deep below
juggernauts rule
and I swerve out of control
I was once a dreamer
but then we took the path
of the screamers
down here
nothing is clear 
because of the throne

Now that you know 
let love grow
now that you see 
what it all here means
let this be thrown 
into the breeze
let this plan be seized 
now that we know what this means

somewhere deep below 
juggernauts rule
and we find ourselves in seas
I was once a dreamer 
but then we were decived 
by the screamers 
and we're 
all in fear
keep us safe
it doesn't have to clear 
but now we all know

Now that you know 
let love grow
now that you see 
what it all here means
let this be thrown 
into the breeze
opperation seized 
now that we know what this means

and the spies
the lies and the lord of the flies
they have too much gear
and here
the things that you said
they're like lead 
in my head 
the hellish fires and glows 
I know i know 
that this is giving us 
an ugly shade of paint 
an ugly shade of paint 
and now we know 
we won't let it go
we see the truth like a tall spruce
cause now we are wide awake

Awake

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/ccl

A re-imagination of a mixtape I never finished.

I started putting the pieces of this mix together in early 2018, and stopped after a head injury that made listening to music painful. These songs have gotten me through some of my darkest times, I hope this trip can provide you with some solace in 2020. 

Re-imagined, reorganized, re-edited songs, personal recordings, voice memos, bits of books...from “before,” from now. 

Recordings and music from: Amazondotcom, Ash Ra Tempel, ASMZ, Barefoot, Babyfather, Beautiful Pea Green Boat, Beat Happening, Carmen Maria Machado, CCL/Cecu, COH, Cocteau Twins, The Congos, Drome, The Durutti Column, Echium, Faye Wong, Freeway Fusion, Graham Lambkin, Jana Rush, Jake Muir, Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere, Koñca Taniec, Kelsey Lu, Kuedo, M. Geddes Gengras, Madteo, Miles Davis, Mark Van Hoen, Mark Clifford, Nat, Sky High Diamonds, Second Woman, Siete Catorce, Sun Araw, Tricky, Ulf Lohman, Vince Watson, Wilson Tanner

NCR

DJ Scarecrow

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