Renegade Lights Kickstarter – The Final Countdown

02011-08-29

I have a Wolf Interval track on the coming Renegade Lights compilation release. It’s an 11 track double vinyl and download featuring songs from performers at Renegade Lights events in San Francisco and Chicago: Dolza, Nonagon, Raja The Resident Alien, Mend, Anon Day, Jeekoos, Searchl1te, Spacewülf, Edison, Ellul and myself.

Included in the download will be videos from Renegade Lights visualists: Mattbot, Mediapathic and Cstng-Shdws.

All tracks are now in the genius hands of Shawn Hatfield at Oakland’s Audible Oddities for analog mastering. Shawn has tricked out waveforms for Twerk (his own fantastic project), Amon Tobin, ESKMO, CEX, Modwheelmod, Proem, Noam Chomsky and Cullen Miller, to name just a few luminaries in his extensive client list. This compilation is going to sound amazing.

Raja, the alien behind Renegade Lights, has made a Kickstarter for the release. He’s blown through his funding goal already, but I know he’ll be ponying up the rest from his own pocket. If you’d like to support independent electronic artists doing it our own way, pre-ordering the compilation in vinyl or digital form is a good way to do so. At certain levels there are fancy images and extra tracks, too. Kickstarter pre-orders close Monday Aug 29, 20:27 PDT, so now is the time!

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Renegade Lights: Chicago Edition

02011-04-18

On Friday, May 20, 02011, I’ll be in the midwest to drop a Wolf Interval set at Transamoeba Studios for Renegade Lights: Chicago Edition. Running from 21:00 to just before dawn, this is going to be an amazing show – San Francisco meets Chicago in an epic feat of audience levitation via massive soundwave. If you’re within a state or three, get in touch and we’ll hook you into the secret navigation signal.

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Renegade Lights 02 – 02011 03 05

02011-02-18

Renegade Lights, our Left Coast music massive, will be dropping round two on San Francisco audiences at Il Pirata in Potrero Hill on the first Saturday in March. I’ll be playing a Wolf Interval set around 23:00, between Nonagon and Edison. Monomes will be out in force, along with all other manner of blinking button and lights, abstract audio and reconstructed beats.

The show runs from 21:00 – 01:30 on Saturday, March 05, 02011.
Il Pirata is at 2007 16th Street, San Francisco, California. It’s a great place for electronic music and friendly hang outs.

21:00-21:30 Blankethead
21:40-22:10 Raja The Resident Alien
22:20-23:00 Nonagon
23:10-23:50 Wolf Interval
00:00-00:40 Edison
00:50-01:30 Anon Day

Visuals are again rocked to n+1 by Mattbot, Mediapathic and CSTNG-SHDWS.

I’ll be working some new material into the set, and have added Livid’s Code to the controller pool, an 8 x 4 pushbutton encoder swarm. Bit crush elbows: activate! With the Code, Monome 256 and touchAble on the iPad all providing real-time control over Ableton Live and Max for Live, Wolf Interval sets have become very hands-on.

Renegade Lights 02 flyer front
Renegade Lights 02 flyer back

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Cypod Vision

02010-09-22

DJ Cypod attended Renegade Lights, captured some short video clips of the performances, and graciously uploaded to YouTube. This video is from about a third of the way into my Wolf Interval set. The darkness perfectly showcases the gorgeous photon stream Mattbot and Mediapathic were spraying across the wall behind me.

If you head over to Cypod’s place, you can also check out clips for two of my comrades in the Renegade grid: Raja and Schplingidy.

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Renegade’s Delight

02010-09-21

Renegade Lights went off beautifully, and not just in terms of logistics. Everyone played amazing sets, taking over the room one after another with their own particular mojo. Schplingidy, Dolza, Raja, Visinin, myself, Nonagon, Edison: seven artists traveling very different maps of the same lush world.

Mediapathic, Mattbot, Colin and Justin of CSTNG-SHDWS worked wicked magic in the bending of light beams to their wills. While sound and vision can arguably exist independent of each other, when melded together with intention and daring they become much more dangerous than the sum of their parts.

The show was dedicated to Olive St. Julien, daughter of our brother in buttons and lights, Joel St. Julien of Ellul. Olive chose the day to make her grand entrance on this globe, and all of our art was enriched by her new presence on the planet with us.

A variety of media records for the evening seem to be in Schrödinger’s box at the moment. Here are some grabs from a video of my own Wolf Interval set. In the first two shots you can see some of the amazing visual work from the hands of Mediapathic and Mattbot acting in concert.

Mattbot and Mediapathic in their visuals cockpit performing a fifth order summoning on demonic entities made of light. Containment grids everywhere.

This fourth shot shows the minimal controller setup I used: a Monome 256 paired with an iPad running touchAble. I’ll be adding one more piece of dedicated hardware to this setup shortly: Livid Instruments new Code. The MacBook Pro they orbit is loaded with Live 8, a custom engineered Max For Live ecosystem and the captured souls of machinery from cities across space and time.

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