Yesterday's gig was a blast. I hadn't played on stage for about nine years, and only after I finished did I realize that it was actually my debut as Sitka.
I recorded my set, so I'll upload it a little later
"Released on 1st January 1994, Robert Hood’s ‘Minimal Nation’ saw the pioneering Detroit producer distill techno’s futuristic intent, creating a stripped-back, raw, and percussive record that became a defining work of the minimal techno sound."
As you sit with your cyberdeck in front of the dataterm, trying to hack the corpo building, you realize that you are missing the right music. Suddenly, you remember that you downloaded a few audio files from an artist in Berlin from the old-net, an artist specializing in the perfect music for netrunning sessions.
You upload the tracks to your cyberdeck and let yourself be immersed in the digital world by the driving beats and pulsating synths. It's time to start your hack and infiltrate the corpo system - with the right music in your ears, you are unstoppable!
Video from my last live set at Iklectik online now: https://youtu.be/1EfWWZHavuI?si=2QSbyFI_MK6x02xE
I included various new devices and builds in the performance, some of which worked better than others.
worm gear long-loop percussion
new modular synth sound sources (slight bugs)
magnetic tape record (minor failure)
multiple webcams for projection and documentation
strobe light kick drum trigger via rotator cuff (mostly ineffective)
Enjoyed the performance though, great atmosphere in a packed room - nice you can see folks dancing in the video. A great send off to Iklectik's Waterloo space (this was the penultimate event there).
Last night I went to see Ex-Kraftwerk Wolfgang Flür perform. Peter Duggal was his warm up act. It was an amazing night with friends.
I stepped more than three times my daily step goal last night dancing!
I brought Wolfgang's Machine one album today and Peter's CD last night. The merchandise stand was cash only so I didn't have enough to get Wolfgang to sign one of his albums or t-shirts 😪
Throwback to building big speakers in 2011-12 and hiring them out to bass nights... Sometimes I miss the way the serious bottom end would vibrate my entire body, but on the plus side I get a lot more sleep these days.