Renegade Lights In Your Ears

02011-11-04

Here’s a full length preview player for Renegade Lights – Release One. I’ll post a breakdown of what went into the making of my Wolf Interval track soon, but you can get the entire slice of electronic wonderland now at http://music.renegadelights.net.

Renegade Lights #1 by Renegade Lights

So much has led up to this: shows in San Francisco and Chicago, sound systems that could propel starships, radio interviews, crazy crowds, fantastic dancers and always lights beneath our fingers. It’s been an incredible journey over the course of an incredible year, with more to explore on the horizon. 02012 is looking good for this crew.

For background on Renegade Lights, there’s a brand new interview on controllerism.com with the original renegade himself, owner/operator Raja The Resident Alien.

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Renegade Lights – Release One

02011-11-01

Renegade Lights - Release One - Cover

For all ears and eyes today, a compilation of sonic and visual deliciousness. 11 musical acts creating vibrations for you from bits and bytes, one visualist pair dropping high quality video from Mr. Sting of the ever-present ellipses himself (What up, Edison?) and one cross-disciplinary code mangler merging light waves with music (Ia Mediapathic!). All of us are performers at Renegade Lights shows in San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles (Hi Dolza!). Mastered by Shawn Hatfield at Oakland’s own Audible Oddities.

I’m thrilled and honored to be in the company of these creators on Raja The Resident Alien‘s very first Renegade Lights release.

Renegade Lights - Release One - Reverse

Available now in download format of your choice and/or pre-order for 150 gram double vinyl:

http://music.renegadelights.net

Renegade Lights - Release One - Tracklist

Renegade Lights/LoveTech collaborative San Francisco release parties soon.

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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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Part Time Sucker Radio

02011-05-23

On Thursday, 19 May, I performed a Wolf Interval teaser set for Renegade Lights on Chicago’s long-running experimental show, Part Time Sucker Radio’s Streetbeat 89.3 WNUR. San Francisco comrades Anon Day and Nonagon also slapped down the jams. We came close to missing the station in all the atypical SF-style fog shrouding Chicago, but ended up turning everything out silky smooth once we were on air. It was a great time. Big thanks to Searchl1te and Jason Araujo for masterminding our appearance. Jason also snapped the shot below.

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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.

Renegade Lights: Chicago Edition - 020110520

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Renegade Lights In Orbit

02011-04-16

Last month’s Renegade Lights, our second live electronic music event in the San Francisco series, was an immense success. Attention has shifted now to the coming Chicago show, and I’ve become aware of a building expectation. In both myself and others, the question lives in every room, finds its way into the music I make, weaves between the words I write, the pixels I manipulate, the code I create. What are we building, with this dedicated group of musicians and visualists? We are accelerating; what is this rocket’s destination?

Big Hair Oh Yeah: Wolf Interval @ Renegade Lights 02 - 020110305

The show in March was a level up – we blew the doors off Il Pirata. Every musician and visualist brought their best, and the crowd responded. The place was well-attended, packed with dancers and a rowdy, appreciative audience. It drove me, and all of the performers, deep into our art and the moment. I am ready to do it again, every night.

Stripe Time: Wolf Interval @ Renegade Lights 02 - 020110305

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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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Wolf Interval – Live @ Renegade Lights 020100919

02010-10-02

Recorded live at the first Renegade Lights, held at Space Gallery in San Francisco on 020100919. A few songs were cropped for noisiness, as this edited recording is good but bootleg quality. Everyone’s having a good time as part of the ambience. The show was fantastic, the people amazing and beautiful. It was a wonderful night. I’m looking forward to performing as Wolf Interval at both the next Renegade Lights in San Francisco and a special Renegade Lights Chicago edition.

Wolf Interval live @ Renegade Lights Set – San Francisco 020100919 by Wolf Interval

Studio versions of some songs in this set will be released on the forthcoming Night’s Black Agents, some I’ll drop on SoundCloud, and some will continue to mutate and only slide into this dimension during live performance.

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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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