Jazzy Twisted ECLECT-RONICs

[FORMAT]

Hey any of you into jazzy electronica mixing live musicians and whatever machine-aided stuff you are dreaming up? I've been into this for quite some time and know lots of people in the DnB-related scene who do that but what about techno-stylee people?
I am well into this stuff with my project called Format... Always looking for partners in crime...


FORMAT

[jamyna]

Hi Format.
I have spent the last few years writing sequenced music and arranging parts for live instruments including gutiar, trombone, cello, bass and vocal. Just recenetly we recruited a drummer. We call this collective SpynaWorkshop.
I cant really describe to you what it sounds like, you just have to hear it really. We are playing a gig tomorrow night 5/4/02 at "The Spitz" London!

[FORMAT]

Great... only that I'm from Munich and its too dear to go there for just one gig...
I'm doing a segment of interesting and/or hard-to-get electronic stuff for a San Francisco radio station - if you're interested to be featured on there drop me a mail....

Regards,
FORMAT

[Ava]

i saw a great jazz band last week - the creative jazz orchestra. 10 piece band with normal jazz stuff, pedal steel guitar, rhodes or suchlike, cello, accordian, turntables/cd player, and laptop/effects/sampler. it was reaally good , they played wonky jazz, quite cartoonlike in places, with some crunch electronic beats and synths.

i want to try and make some more 'techno like' music, but with bass and acoustic guitar and melodica. and samples of wooden things hitting together.

[FORMAT]

Ava,
This idea sounds pretty good - live techno. how are you making music right now and how would you go about realising a live project?


Regards,
FORMAT

[FORMAT]

Ava,
This idea sounds pretty cool - live techno. how are you making music right now and how would you go about realising a live project?


Regards,
FORMAT

[FORMAT]

Ava,
This idea sounds pretty cool - live techno. how are you making music right now and how would you go about realising a live project?


Regards,
FORMAT

[Ava]

Sorry format...

just read your reply. At the moment i am not really making music, due to having lots of work, it being sunny outside, and not having an audio interface for my new mac. before this i was doing mods and xms. live techno would be like a few people playing percussion and stuff, maybe a bass guitar or something and some people with electronics. not really thought it through but it sounds like it would be fun to give it a go.

when i get my audio interface and a mixer so i can mix my synth, drum machine, computer and gameboy, i am going to try and make some wonky style techno with lots of changes and funk. and also some more abstract stuff. i'm going to use logic and max/msp i think (don't like reaktor)

[piscaries]

closest things i've seen to this idea were alexi delano spinning mostly beat tracks while a live bassist improved over it, and then i saw another dj accompanied by two latin percussionists. alexi's thing was amazing, but the latin percussion thing was a bit rough. imagine a dj and 2 drummers all trying to stay in sync. yeah....

i think it is feesible though. just look back to all the good 80's bands like erasure, omd, depeche mode, etc.. that was all pretty much live techno. at least for then it was. even newer acts like the prodigy had some amazing live stuff. when i saw the prod a few years back, they had a live drummer banging the shit out of himself and the drums. fun stuff. i can't imagine it would be too difficult to throw some v-drums, a guitar, a bass, a keyboard, a sampler, and a singer together to make live techno. i'd be game if i could only find others near me. oh well. i suppose i'll settle for a solo world-domination tour.

[rmr]

Some people in Glasgow are involved in something called "Superscientists from nowhere" mixing decks, desks and live instruments..they've done one gig which seemed to go down quite well, and some live internet radio things last year..one of which I dids with them (ironically they said it was the best one, of course they didnt tape it!) they have another coming up this month...its kind of a live PA plus type thing I suppose..it will be interesting to see how it develops...

[FORMAT]

rmr,

do the superscientists from nowhere have a website? I shall be very interested to find out about your activities as I'll be travelling Scotland in August, and if I knew about what is going on and when, I'd like to witness one of these events.... If you don't mind just reply or send notifications to format@gmx.co.uk

btw, I'm from Munich...

FORMAT

[rmr]

They dont have web site..I think they plan to a perform every two months...I'll keep you up to date however..