ego push up

Hotel Insomnia - CT2OK, lets boost my self up a bit. Here is a record from CT2 (A Czech TV) where we played with ne I and I spoke of the Creative Commons licences. I think you wont miss it. One you see a man who has headphones in his nose there we start.

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eee – Linux based “guitar”-Theremin effector

eee-t91-ubuntustudio-effect Here is my new say “project”.  Looking for “cheap” multi-effect for my Theremin experiments I figure it out that what I do not like on computer based effect is the mouse interface. I thought it over and over and then found the small toy eee T91, a small PC with 1.33GHz processor and Touchscreen ;).

Although it’s hard to find it in a store I found one from second hand and went to install certain flavours of Linux. I have tried Ubuntu studio, then Debian, 64studio and then again Ubuntu studio I use still today (I thinking of Puppy, but I’m pretty much satisfied already).

Why I use Linux? First I like it and second with the Jack audio server I can have tiny mini delay even on this “slow”device and all the programs for free as well. Plus I can change the interface for my needs since it runs on Gnome and it’s easy to reconfigure. So it has for example such a huge sliders as you can see on the photo, without need to change a what ever program I choose… which uses the common GUI, indeed. What you can see here is a Jack audio server in the background with Jack Rack as the effector on top. It doesn’t eats the CPU that much as all others and has nice simple interface with countless effects. With such settings I have about 8.71 msec delay, I think it’s more then OK, when you thing of the way how Theremin works and what you can do with it, I think even for guitar is more then fine.

What is still in development are graphic drivers, I haven’t have time to look at and solve the way I like and frankly the built in sound card is not one of the best so there is still some noise. I think it has something to do with the Linux though, because when I switch to Windows it’s not “that” noisy. I have tried even my Zoom H4 as I sound card and the noise stays there so it seams to me the problem is kernel or something..indeed real-time in this case. And I’m not sure if I’ll go for on screen keyboard. I don’t think I really need it.

If you want to get rid of the potential hum, I never experienced with this eee you can always unplug it from DC and run it for next sweet 5 hours on battery ;]

If someone of you have any idea how to fix the noise, I’m one ear. An those who think of similar “project” the only thing I can recommend is think of a computer with better sound card. The rest is in this cute puppy more then OK…Right the screen response could be faster but I’m not going to draw on it.

ne I – on AVU Prague

Welcome in the middle of who nowhere. Central Europe, Prague, Today, AVU at 7PM until the night dies and birds starts to sing.
ne I
is here again!

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Pamelia Kurstin – Wien – 071209

pamelia-kurstin-wienWhen you see her, this freaky girl looking spitfire, you won’t believe her age and less you’ll believe what she is able to do. When she comes in front of Theremin the whole world changes. All the music is like it unwinds out of the finger tips full filling the space with the wave substance, only the tip of foot is changing the color and adds more instruments on top of already ever present waveform.
How can you describe magic? The only way is to have the direct experience, even this bit of record from the performance wont help you to understand.

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(this is a raw recording in full sound spectrum, so as usual, without at least good sound setup, you cannot expect much)

advent recordings

obal_advent_maleThis has to be published.
I’m happy to listen what we have done on 29th November on one of our scheduled live shows.
It has pretty deep sound, don’t play it unless you are are in good mood or want go deeper in your depression.

Here is a bit, the rest is here.

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Fast forward through TMP

img_0639This is just a short brief from TMP party that ends up this morning. I think I do not write much about it here, you’ll find all in the mp3 bellow. (More info on http://monkeyontheorb.org/).

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TMP party – 2009

TMP - partyThis is probably the first official announcement  (…that’s not true man ) of the new TMP party in the year of grace 2009.
19.11.2009 on Academy of Fine Art Prague.

Who? Who knows, but one thing is clear, our new formed band ne I will be there and here is a sound flayer.

Give it loop and play it loud (bass speakers necessary!).

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sounds recorded from the bike frame, composition done on iPhone (BEATMAKER)
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Stimulate your self

2046-stimul-festival-head-in-my-body-0579I know this is not about my own work, but who cares :)

Here are bunch of picture a made within the time I was shaking my body on STIMUL festival this Saturday..wait today is Saturday, then it has had to be Friday, OK it was this Friday. When I have checked all the myspaces of all the bands then the last little star become my big star. I think all of them was shiny planets. The band or two performers “Head in body feat. My sister is pregnant” where awesome. At one time she hit the bass guitar like bass guitar player won’t ever do and the sound was completely tuned wit my brain. the second band Vladislav Delay Quartetd .. is nice but too smooth and clean to me..not all part indeed but. PAN SONIC grate, I was bit disappointed they do not create the music out of analog toys, but that will by too childish to think of it this way, I’m childish …bla bla bla I know here are the pictures….click on more :>

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Důl Kübeck

kubeck-pozvankaYet another concert. I know it going to be silly to have that many concerts in my case. What can I do? Just obey the destiny.

So then, all the screams will happen on 26th September, yes this Saturday in “Důl Kübeck” somewhere in the deep mining pit of Kladno city. Here is the map.

Bike glitches

bike_glitches_smallAlthough I have posted the invitation for Ciklojizda event here already I’m back, this time with my own invitation flayer ;)

So again the event runs on 20th September, “náměstí Míru” and “I. P. Pavlova”, Prague, from Noon to 8PM

update: here is a pict from the action

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