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Hello - I am looking for an Eigenharp performer in London for an event at an art gallery. Please could you get in touch with me directly if you are interested/know of anyone who you would recommend. My email is azadeh [at] lync [dot] events

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This weekend I played in the Brisbane Synthesizer Orchestra.  This was my setup.  Also in addition were many modulars, a Buchla Music Easel, new Roland modular gear, a Dark Energy II and more.  The entire thing was recorded and filmed, so hopefully the footage goes up online soon. https://www.flickr.com/photos/37718515@N05/20814510338/in/album-72157655046459479/

This weekend I will be hosting a meeting with PMC as "center of all attentions", with a window to the Atlantic Ocean - Sines - Portugal. 6 persons-musicians-developers and many Controllers/instruments  2 Haken Continuum Fingerboard 3 Eigenharp Alpha 5 Eigenharp Pico 1 Eigenharp Tau  1 Madrona Labs Soundplane many synths some analog and even a modular under same roof...

By popular request, this is a live recording of my performance at City of Refuge UCC in Oakland on Saturday. The story behind it is that Gina Pond's new church start-up project, Between The Worlds, was doing an Easter Saturday vigil service. She unwittingly asked me to provide the music. I think what I did was about as far from what people normally ever hear in that church (i.e., Grammy winning professional grade gospel!) that you can probably get. Anyway, this is genuinely a live recording, straight from the mixing desk, just a bit of mastering, so what you're hearing is exactly what I was playing. It's all live, improvised, no backing tracks, no sampled phrases, played real-time on an Eigenharp Tau. Synthesis was via Ableton Live, MAX, Battery and Reaktor running on a Macbook Pro. The bass solos were played live on the Eigenharp, with the sound coming from the Trilium VST plugin. It's long, moderately demanding, and is best listened to by telling your brain to shut up...

Hi folks, Just a heads up. I'm going to be performing live Eigenharp in Oakland a week from tomorrow (Saturday April 19th from noon until 3pm). The venue is City of Refuge UCC, 8400 Enterprise Way, Oakland CA. My other half, Gina Pond is taking over City of Refuge UCC in Oakland on the Saturday afternoon of Easter weekend. Her blurb for the event is here: http://btwchurch.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/holy-saturday-service-april-19-12-3-pm-at-city-of-refuge-ucc/ On my (Mage of Machines) side, I'll be performing live Eigenharp for (nearly) 3 hours, and hopefully recording a live album in the process. I'll be doing my usual weird combination of looping, generative music and live improvisation. The event is part ritual, part meditation, part music, with the idea that people can drop in and out anywhere within the three hours. I'll be playing cycles of one hour, but being my usual self I'm unlikely to repeat myself, so I'll aim to put together a recording by editing toge...

I will be Eigenharp playing (Alpha) at the Open Ceremony of EOC / ETOC 2014 - Palmela, Portugal DançArte - Vertical dance Sunday 13th April http://eoc2014.fpo.pt/index.php/en/news

Here's another option that I've been considering to travel with the Tau, a Chapman Stick soft case. Does anyone have one of these to try the Tau with? http://www.stick.com/accessories/cases/

Interesting fact, the Tau is apparently perfect for air travel. No problems at all to ask for carry-on reservation. Its length doesn't exceed a bass guitar and its width and depth are much smaller. It's also a lot lighter. I'm planning to carry it around in a regular bass guitar gig bag (already tried, perfect fit), which will be a nice improvement over the instrument case that I use for the Alpha. http://www.eigenlabs.com/product/tau/

Extremely busy passed weeks - Next DançArte show... 11 october - "Centro do Mundo" www.mm.passosecompassos.pt (Sorry still only Portuguese) Will be "deconstructing" this place - bandstand - 4 dancers and various moments with my Alpha; just that!

Last year private Luxembourg event...

Transforia - From my live set at Electro-Music Festival, Huguenot, NY, September 2013. https://soundcloud.com/simple-not-simpler/transforia-live-performance-at

Here's an improvisation between Paul Harriman, Geert Bevin and myself (Randy Brown).  Three Eigenharp players meeting on the East Coast of the US for a unique music festival.  Never playing together before, they met and enjoyed the music, playing off each other's riffs and ideas.  A once in a lifetime musical experience.  One which I hope to get to share again. https://soundcloud.com/simple-not-simpler/eigenharp-trio-electro-music

Improvisation between Harrison McKay and Randy Brown at the 2013 Electro-Music Festival in Huguenot, NY. https://soundcloud.com/simple-not-simpler/harrison-brown-at-em2013

Some more Picts from EM2013.

Glowing Paul Harriman performing at Electro-music fest 2013

From earlier tonight. Originally shared by Tim Roberts Looks like this was the weekend for gigging with the eigenharp.

Decided to play Tau for my main set at electro-music fest 2013 in NY. Last weekend, worked out a few details on my pieces and realized I didn't need to use Alpha. This is fine with me as I'd like to baby it for awhile longer. ;) Plus, it will be good to show the different instruments to attendees. Paul Harriman will be there to show Alpha. I'll have Tau and Pico. So everyone should get a good look at all three. I'm doing a collab set with an electronic percussionist. May just use Pico to pay bass and sonic/rhythmic patterns. We'll see. Really looking forward to this event.

Live action shot of a man in a hat.

Picture of my setup at IndyMEME.