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Abletton Live, Resolume, Joomla
Monday, 19 December 2011 12:23
It's almost Christmas. And it's almost the 23rd and a special Christmas gig for my favourite dog rescue at Monroes Tavern Galway Ireland. As you can see from the post below. It's also almost a tear since EMC23.com founded the Irish Joomla User Group to support web developers coders designers and hobbyists make the most from the Joomla Open Source content management system. With regular meetings and a website One of the interetsing things now is an attempt to combine all if this into an odd experiment. We are going to broadcast triggered messages via Ableton Live and Resolume that are brought in live via an RSS feed. This feed will originate from either a twitter feed or a feed from the new Joomla platform (the framework with the CMS removed so it is run from the command line).
DJ Techbot and friends have always been at the ctting edge of technology being the first to do a resident Laptop set in the early noughties in the Blue Note Galway. Our Netlabel currently stands at roughly 20,000 downloads and Techbots minimixes stand at roughly 1000-2000 downloads each.
Congress
Monday, 21 November 2011 18:39
"Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Madra Dog Expo
Monday, 09 May 2011 14:02
The most exciting event on the canine calendar is coming soon!
Come and join us for our first ever MADRA Dog Expo fundraising event on Sunday, May 29th, 2011. We’ll have dog shows, training demonstrations, healthy hound advice, grooming tips, adoption centres, pet photography, and of course a shopping extravaganza for your four legged best-friend.
Enter your dog in one of the many show categories or let them strut their stuff on the dog walk! Send in your stories in advance for our heart warming tales category, or enter our competition and your dog could be a V.I.D (Very Important Dog) for the day!
Special guests will include Celebrity Vet, Pete Wedderburn (right); Dog Trainer to the Stars, Mary Owens of Fircroft Kennels; Friend of MADRA, Sharon Shannon, and of course our MADRA dogs and puppies.
We’ll be adding events and competitions over the coming weeks so please check back and follow us on Facebook.
You’d be barking mad to miss this event and don’t forget that all the proceeds go directly to MADRA Dog Rescue and Adoption.
The Eclectic Meme Conspiracy (revisited)
Friday, 14 January 2011 13:23
Written completely from scratch (except for all the libraries, and of course 3000 years of civilisation's knoweldge wherever we can borrow/steal) The Conspiracy Game/Novel development is now in full swing.
Anybody who has been following this sporadic blog (and those who haven't) will know we've been attempting to build a Joomla browser based game around the Eclectic Meme Conspiracy stories. For a while things slowed down and then grinded to a halt. We were using a French Open Source game which we hoped to help translate and make more multilingual friendly. Unfortunatly, we realised that the game being released was always one version behind the version the creator used online as his flagship. This meant our changes were unlikely to be implemented. Rather than fork the project, we decided to begin again.
Live radio podcast
Wednesday, 29 December 2010 00:00
This is a short edit of a radio podcast Left and I did over the Christmas.
Fixtronix
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 14:26
This is to thank Dave Smith at Fixtronix for sorting out the best logistics of getting my beloved Tascam FW1884 mixing desk fixed and thus negating any profit for himself. It's pretty rare (and rightly so) that a professional divulges his knowledge for free, but when it does happen I like to think that karma does her job.
You have a good reputation Dave, having been recommended by Paul Brewer at Boards.ie. And deservedly so.
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Julie's Tea Party
Sunday, 11 July 2010 00:00
Myself and Robin played an epic 6 hour Jazzy Electro Breakbeat set at Julie's Tea party as part of the Colours Fringe Festival.
This was our first gig together. And my first time using the APC40 live. Man, it was so smooth, so easy. Big thanks to Julie for putting the whole gig together. And thanks to the dude who supplied the USB cable. You saved the night! :-)
The Eclectic Meme Conspiracy
Friday, 30 April 2010 12:37
This is a beta of a new game and game engine being developed by Joomla Ireland and EMC23. It's based on a mafia browser game but will be expanded into a multilevel post-modern hyper universe with a heavy emphasis on creativity. The stories were written by myself and friends over the past ten years and will be starting points for various missions and will include greater depth on the characters you will meet in the game.
If you are interested in game design, interface and graphic design, audio, or scriptwriting, and wish to participate in this project then email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
You can test the game here
Steinski in Galway April 16th
Monday, 22 March 2010 14:49
Steinski is quite simply the godfather of cut n paste. He's also got an encyclopedic knowledge of music and presents a show on WFMU. (a link in my favourites). I'm guessing not only is he a huge influence on everything I do, but on all the djs I listen to. From Coldcut, to Dj Shadow, this guy is owed a huge debt. He played 903 last year and it rocked. And now he's using an APC 40! Wicked.
Taken from Steinski's site.. www.Steinski.com
April 11 – 17 I’ll be playing assorted dates in Ireland; Dublin, Galway, perhaps Cork. Keep an eye on the ChoiceCuts website for more definite info as the dates near.
Steinski (Ableton Set)
Looking for co-conspirators
Friday, 12 March 2010 17:27
We are looking for collaborators for several online projects we have on the go. If you like our work, pop in to the EMC23 Facebook Page and say Hi. We are looking for games programmers, graphic and interface designers, script writers, animators, and audio artists and technicians.
If you live in or around Galway, we are also considering some Live multimedia events, so if you are a laptop jockey or a digital artists give us a shout.
Live Internet Radio Rig: Techbot and Left23
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:00
With the minimixes in full swing, and proving popular enough, we are now turning our attention to live internet performance and collaboration.
We'd be interested in meeting up with programmers, interface designers, and visual script writers from Galway over the coming months, to see what kind of project we could create with internet streaming in mind.
This is our most permanent set-up to date. It took a few months of experimenting with combinations and configurations.
What I've essential got hooked up are:
- 2 laptops (Mother and Mildred)
- the APC 40
- a Fatboy controller
- a M-audio Black Box (adds amp to any of the synths inputs)
- a JP 8000 (doubles as a midi controller for any virtual synth)
- a Novation Bass Station
- a Korg Prophecy
- a mini Korg 700 (I bought from the analog synth meister - Mal Meehan. Mal has just finished a DVD documenting JJ Perry, the legendary French synth guru).
Gone are the 2 Korgs (they both need repairs), the FW 1884, Hal the Desktop, the equalizers, the drum machines, and the Carnival Sound module.
Facebook Studio Photo Gallery
Monday, 08 February 2010 18:46
This is my collection of photos going over the years. I've a few more I need to scan and upload. Some are back when I had a studio in Dublin, but most are of my last place in Galway.
You can tell the difference because the equipment moves from being recording based, to DJ-centric.
And of course there's the dogs.
Famous APC Owners
Saturday, 22 August 2009 01:53
My addition to this excellent interweb meme. Click on the image to jump to the Original APC fourm thread
Kid Beyond on Ableton
Saturday, 25 July 2009 18:35
Although I've had ableton Live 5 for over a year now, it's only in the past few weeks that I've been totally converted from my older sequencers.
Titles for tunes
Saturday, 25 July 2009 18:32
My tunes bear little relation to their titles and I'm running out of ideas. Anybody got any suggestions?
The Prize is You get to name a tune
Techbot in Space
Blog of The Killob
High Joe
Yogi run a mile
CcMixter
Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:57
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
www.ccMixter.org is a community music site that promotes remix culture and makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative works. Visitors are able to listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in a variety of ways including the download and use of tracks and samples in their own remixes. Most sampling or mash-up web sites on the Internet stipulate that users forgo their rights to the new song once it is created. By contrast, the material on ccMixter.org is generally licensed to be used in any arena, not just the ccMixter site or a specific contest. The ccMixter site contains thousands of samples from a wide range of recording artists, including high profile artists such as Beastie Boys and David Byrne (musician).
Some ccMixter sound files might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Each submission is marked clearly with the license that applies to it.
How do you do, UTM?
Saturday, 04 July 2009 14:36
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/06/30/analog-juno-60-and-what-junos-labels-should-really-say
As seen in CDM checkout UTM's excellent vid for the How do you juno?
