Satellite Of Love

Info

The Satellite Of Love is a livestream performance of one or two hours of continuous music and soundscape synchronized by Ableton Link, Midi and Din Clock. Each section should blend from the preceding section.

The Livestream is divided into sections of 10 minutes. A participant may have one of more slots allotted either as a solo or a jam project.

A participant will probably want to provide 20% to 50% new material for their slot if regular. This could be as little as 5 minutes of material each month.

A participant that does not compose or produce may wish to rehearse and partake in the jamming sections.

This is an electronic event. There is a 24 channel digital mixer.

Before hand, we'll chat with the participant about what they might bring and how they will set up.

About Us

• https://twitter.com/EMC23dotcom
• https://www.meetup.com/experimental-music-channel-amsterdam
• https://www.emc23.com/about-us

Studio

Computers

• Honey: Mixer, Ableton Recording
• Hal: Ableton, Zwobots, OBS
• Gollum: Broadcaster
• Bilbo: Webcam One, FX OBS
• Clint: Webcam Two, FX OBS
• Mildred: Ableton. OBS

Synths

• Arturia MatrixBrute
• Korg Prologue
• Moog Mother32
• Korg Prophecy
• Roland TB 03

Drum machines

• TR-8
• TR-8s
• Drumbrute
• Volca Sample

Midi Controllers

• Push 2
• Push
• Beatstep Pro
• MS 20
• Launch Control
• Traktor Dj

Setup

Ableton Link

Ableton Link is either solid as a rock or not usuable. At present it is unusuable but in the previous studio is was perfect. Reasons unknown.

Mio Midi Center

This box allowed the studio grow exponentially overnight. In conjuction with RTPmidi any program that accepts midi input can be accessed from any other daw via ethernet/wifi.

Eurorack Clock

The Mother32 has a midi in permantently connected to the MIO (see above) . So it can be used to convert midi to the WaveyLines Eurorack and/or guests.

The Music

Concept

"The Satellite Of Love orbits the planet on the edges of the stratosphere. It picks up and bounces back the signals it picks up from earth edited, remixed and recontextulised by the group of Space Composers who stole the Satellite from the Evil Bond Villian Elon Musk. The music is continous, weaving in an out of melodies, snippets, songs, operas, adverts, and TV show. the hum of the planet, the hum of the big bang. Sounds from yesteryear. We might hear a melody - just once or a groove that goes on for days.  We boldy go where no one has gone before . On a journey through Space , Time and Sound"

_{Captain Techbot}

Genres

We go for a post modern take on genres since this is not a club, club music has a limited place tho' not inconsequential by any means. We are not averse to house and techno but without the biofeedback from an audience the overall vibe is identical to any other genre. So instead we divide music along tempi. So one stream we might start with a reggae beat at 100 bpm and move towards a Rock N Roll groove at 80 bpm, followed by a non tempoed ambient soundscape before finishing with some house goodness at 120bpm.

Musicology#Documentaires_on_Youtube

Scores

The scores help move things along ensuring one doesn't get stuck in a groove. The genres are not meant to be accurately mimic'd but used as reference points. They are iterively created using google docs. Unless maybe when going for a funky vibe. We sticked to CAGED scales which benefits guitarist participants.

Scores spreadsheet

One Hour Scores For Two People

Satellite Of Love - One Hour Score For Two People

Score	0 - 8	9 - 16	17-24	25- 28	29 - 32	33 -36	37 - 40	41 - 48
No 1	Intro	stuff	Satellite Of Noise	Arp	Guitar loop	Reggae Jam	Solo	12 bar Electronic Blues Jam
Scale Tempo	080 bpm	080 bpm	D minor	080 bpm	D minor 080 bpm	A minor 110 bpm	A minor 080 bpm	E minor 080 bpm
Chords			D	D	D	Amin	Amin G C G	Emin7 Amin7 Bmin7

Satellite Of Love - One Hour Score For Two People

Score	0 - 8	9 - 16	17-21	22- 24	25 - 32	33 -36	37 - 40	41 - 48
No 2	Intro	stuff	Satellite Of Noise	Arp	Guitar loop	Solo	Ambient Jam	Acid House Jam
Scale Tempo	080 bpm	080 bpm	D minor	080 bpm	080 bpm	080 bpm	C minor 080 bpm	F minor 120 bpm
Chords			D	-	-	--	Cmin	Fmin Gmin Amaj Gmin

Satellite Of Love - One Hour Score For Two People

Score	0 - 8	9 - 16	17-21	22- 24	25 - 32	33 -36	37 - 40	41 - 48
No 3	Intro	stuff	Satellite Of Noise	stuff	Guitar loop	Solo	Ambient Jam	Irish House Jam
Scale Tempo	080 bpm	080 bpm	D minor	080 bpm	080 bpm	080 bpm	C minor 080 bpm	F minor 120 bpm
Chords			D	-	-	--	Cmin	Fmin Gmin Amaj Gmin

Second Processors

• Berna 3
• Gleetchlab
• Lore

Sources

Sources can either be prerendered and triggered in Ableton or if there is a spare laptop and soundcard, performed live.

Reason

I've gone to a kind of extreme with ReasonVST inside Live. I fill a rack with devices, each has it's own sequencer. No automation in Ableton. Use Reason LFOs, and mouse to control volumes in the reason mixer etc.Record a set in Ableton. Repeat. So tyhe Ablton file mainly acts as a wrapper holding let's say 20 wave file mixdowns of the rack. A new ablton file will have a new iteration of the rack and 20 more wav files mixdowns.

VCVRack

I download patches from Patchstorage and hack them to my own use.

Glompler

A Glitch rompler designed inhouse currenlty in VCVrack format.

Radio

A USB dongle supplies FM radio to an ingouhse VCVrack plugin

DIY Plugins

Various VST, JUCE CSound etc plugins in development inhouse

Ongaku

Performance version of Bento

Bento

Cool chatoic Oscilators in a standalone DAW by Georgio

Quadrivium

Planetasry Orbital Midi controller and oscilaoots in a standalone DAW bgy Georgio

Performance Glitcher

• Loopmix

Dj Sets

• Remixdowns
• Found Sounds
• Bandcamp Freeform Dj Sets

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