Ras goffa, Spring Loaded, London

Fresh from a performance at British Dance Edition 2010, ras goffa Bobby Sands is showing in the Spring Loaded festival at The Place on April 10th.

(Photo: Keith Morris.)

Max for Live for Print

Late news: our Max for Live review was published in the February issue of Sound On Sound. It may still be on news stands, and is available for download here.

By the Numbers

Nearly five years after I pondered using the Conet Numbers Stations recordings for a bit of sound art, madebyrobot a.k.a. Jon Sykes has curated a rather nice compilation of concept tracks on the theme, released by PublicSpaces Lab. Cassiel is featured with Ciocirlia (track 5).

(Cover Art by Rita Monteiro @ PublicSpaces Lab.)

Vitruvian Fieldwork

Work continues in Field on the Vitruvian-inspired software Choreographic Language Agent for Wayne McGregor's Entity piece, the latest incarnation of which will be performed in November.

Since most of our projects involve sound art, we usually obsess over CPU performance and RAM, but Field/CLA is graphics-heavy with lots of OpenGL action, so the GPU rules. This 2006 MacBook Pro is way underpowered, so we're awaiting delivery of a 2009 model, slightly faster CPU-wise but (hopefully) a revelation in terms of graphics performance.

Ras goffa, British Dance Edition

ras goffa Bobby Sands is being performed as part of British Dance Edition 2010: details here.

Memorial Lasers

We have some shots on Flickr of the laser rig we designed and programmed for ras goffa Bobby Sands (the Bobby Sands memorial race) by Eddie Ladd.

Further performances this week at Chapter, Cardiff.

Ableton to Zawinski

In anticipation of the release of Max for Live, I felt a sudden desire to program Ableton Live to be able to read mail. With a bit of help from MXJ and Jython, Live can attach to a POP3 server and load email header information into the names of sound clips. Et voila, via Vimeo and our fledgeling Posterous blog for Max for Live tips and tricks:

http://maxforlive.loadbang.net/ableton-live-now-obeys-zawinskis-law-thanks-t.

Audiomulch on Paper

Our review of AudioMulch 2.0 for Sound On Sound magazine will appear in the November issue. It is downloadable for subscribers here.

PEAL

We (by which I mean myself and Lewis Sykes, under the collective moniker of Monomatic) have been awarded the major commission for an audio-visual piece in Leeds City Museum as part of Sound and Music's Expo festival.

We've called the piece PEAL. There's a project page here and an ongoing development blog here.

Live in Print

Just over two years after we last reviewed Ableton Live in print (for Recording magazine), we've had another shot, in Sound On Sound for the June 2009 issue. And things are about to get interesting.