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Moment 16: Locally grown sound

If you’re in Chicago and decided to sit out on Saturday’s events due to the snow / ice storm, come out to Subterranean listen to music by local electronic musicians and check out live visuals on the walls. Featuring Quantazelle (Liz Revision), Coyote DG, Drmlgcc, Garo, Lokua. Live Video by: Glen Stephani, The Machinist, Mason Dixon. Oh, and it’s FREE! Subterranean. 2011 North Ave., Chicago IL 60647. 21+ event.

Chicago Dorkbot: Michael Una & Quantazelle (Liz Revision) do strange things with electricity

Create Digital Music contributors Liz McLean-Knight and Michael Una will be presenting at Dorkbot Chicago this month, which falls on Wednesday, November As always, it will take place at the excellent Deadtech, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago.

[RAMP CHICAGO] Cepia (LIVE) with DJ Warp, Emulsion and Liz Revision

“With its multi-layered commingling of clanking beats and melancholy themes, [Cepia’s Dowry album] follows in the mechanical footsteps of Autechre [and] Funkstorung, … [and] the title track, where stately melodies stubbornly bleed through entangling tendrils of squawks, whirrs, and clicks, is the real stunner. A strong debut from Mr. Miller, ” gushes Textura magazine. Basking in the live-generated sounds of Cepia in Sonotheque’s top-notch Funktion One sound system will truly be a spine-tingling, moving experience.…

Im in ur LOLoweens

“Cause the LOLrus costume would have been too hard to pull off. I found all of it in shops in Wicker Park, including a set of fake nails and a iron-on t-shirt transfers for the LOL part. I didn’t want to do a black cat since most LOLcats aren’t black, so finding different colored ears was a bit of a challenge. And I ran into another LOLcat at a party, too!

IDM humor, Bollywood-style

Here’a a great little humorous website where you can insert your own subtitles into clips from Bollywood movies. Here’s a bunch that are IDM-themed. [More lol and ones by me after the jump]

Microsoft, let's just be friends. It's for the best.

So my laptop’s motherboard died, but thankfully I had done a backup a few days prior so no data was lost this time around. Seeing as replacing the motherboard would be just as expensive as buying the same computer on eBay, I opted to spring for a new ‘puter seeing as I could desperately use the extra processing power and RAM. I went first with a sexy little Toshiba with Vista on it, thinking I…

DJ Set from the Demo Swap at Sonotheque [2/2]

Here’s the second half of the set I played at the Demo Swap–it’s mid-tempo. 7. Akufen: “Heaven Can Wait” 8. Phage and Daniel Dreier: “Plumber’s Workshop” 9. Autotune: “Dirty (Phage and Daniel Dreier Remix)” 10. SLG: “Rushhour” (Bulent Gurler Remix) 11. Jeff Samual: “Fire” 13. Ellen Allien: “Washing Machine is Speaking” [Thrills] Liz_Revision_DJ_Set-DemoSwap-7-17-07-02-190vbr.mp3

The LOLrus that kicked the bucket

Everyone’s favorite LOLrus who was overwrought with grief after having his favorite blue bucket stolen has passed away (in 2005 but we just figured it out). His real name was Minazo, and we are certain that he and his bucket have been reunited in seal heaven for eternity. We will miss you. Check out my collection of LOLrus-meme photos and remember him fondly. Turns out Merzbow dedicated an album to him: Minazo Vol. 1 and…

Gustavo Bravetti's custom interactive music controllers

Check out this interview I did with Gustavo Bravetti, an artist who is really pushing the envelope in terms of what can be done with live laptop performance. Specifically, he wrote a custom driver for Ableton Live that allows you to “nudge” the tempo in a way similar to DJing with records, created controllers to affect playback with a glove or a light, and rigged up an electronic drum kit to play back synth lines…

Barbie says, "Math is hard"

In high school there were just as many girls as guys in my AP Biology and Organic Chemistry classes, but fewer hanging out and talking BBS smack at Computer Club. In college the Intro to Computer Science class was pretty balanced, but CS II showed the first signs of a noticeable gender imbalance, skewing toward guys having the majority. I’d go home after classes and log a few hours on Quake, and noticed that my…

Manual with Syntaks

OHM Multimedia Series Presents: Direct from Odense, Denmark, making his U.S. debut, Jonas Munk under the name Manual creates absolutely epic, lush electronic daydreams, as gorgeous as the sun-set and beach photos that adorn his album covers. After years of playing guitar and piano in various projects, he started to combine electronic with ‘analog’ instruments as Manual. He recently worked with Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), and Ulrich Schnauss and is also a member of the…

Interview with Liz Revision at Gearwire

Check out this interview I did with Bill Holland / Mr. Automatic over at GearWire. It’s half super-technical gear talk and half about live performance. If you read closely you’ll learn the secret source of some of my “crunchier” sounding samples. “Native Instruments Absynth, Kontakt, Yamaha PSR-85 And Quantazelle’s Live PA Rig“