Collaboration Chronicles : Three unique live performances were
recorded over the last year each differing stylistically.
A fourth set again unique in style and content was recorded 2007.10.13
during our performance on WRUW 91.1 in Cleveland. We are very excited
about this latest direction and feel like it is what we were looking
for all along. This will be our direction as we to retire into the
studio for the winter season to record our debut studio album. This
evolution in sound has also prompted us to reconsider our
collaborative project stage name and have decided to simply go by
"Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry".
Below are the three downloadable performance recordings that led up to
the current state of our collaborative direction.
Date : 2007-12-08
Location : Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Arts : CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA
Description : Performing as Databasis Basics this was our first
collaborative live performance. Stylistically this performance falls
primarily within the vein of "minimal" techno. Neither of us having
laptops at the time, the performance was done off of one single core
computer running a single abelton live set displayed on two 19in flat
panel monitors. For control we utilized several controllers between
the two of us including a Novation X-Station, two Evolution UC-33s, an
Evolution UC-16, an M-Audio Trigger Finger, and two custom painted usb
qwerty keyboards. The soundsystem and monitoring situation was crap.
It was an interesting learning experience to say the least.
2006-12-08-Databasis_Basics-live@ClevelandMOCA
http://spec.dev.experimedia.net/live/2006-12-08-Databasis_Basics-live@ClevelandMOCA.mp3
Date : 2007-02-10
Location : High Tek Soul @ The View presented by Tek-Know? :
CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA
Description : Performing as Databasis Basics again this was our second
collaborative live performance. After our performance at MOCA in
December we made a drastic stylitic shift almost without realizing it.
We simply started playing with different ideas and went with the flow
during our "jam sessions" and ended up with the following sound that
combined several influences from Autechre style electronica mixed with
some dubstep aspects. The day of we ran into many hiccups starting
first thing in the morning. Being a cold winter static filled day two
power sources on two different pc's went on the fritz. Jason had
recently acquired a dual-core laptop and the plan was to play on two
synced machines. After the hardware failures Jeremy went out,
purchased a dual-core laptop that day, set it up and installed the
necessary software. However with our desktop machines on the fritz I
had no way to get my data off of my internal SATA drive. After
calling some friends and local stores our final solution was to stop
at my place of employment on the way to Cleveland and throw the drive
into one of the SATA compatible desktops to retreive the data. It was
crazy...we were tweeking the laptop, installing software, the whole
ride up, and even at the venue we had to use their net access to get
one more peice of software that slipped our minds. To our surprise we
managed to get everything together to go through with our performance
although when it came time to perform we had lost communication to one
of our outboard synths requireing us to cut out a couple tracks we had
hoped to perform. All in all another great learning experience.
Sound was pretty good...our heavy low end parts had the place shaking.
2007-02-10-Databasis_Basics-live@HighTekSoulCleveland
http://spec.dev.experimedia.net/live/2007-02-10-Databasis_Basics-live@HighTekSoulCleveland.mp3
Date : 2007-09-14
Location : Opening for Thomas Dolby @ The Tangier : AKRON, OHIO, USA
Description : Once again a shift in style further towards a more
experimental electronica sound. Also a name change to Spec.Dev. This
was actually the second time we had performed this set under the new
guise. The first time being at Tek-Know's ReVision at the Lime
Spider. However we only managed to record a short period of that set.
A strange show indeed opening for Thomas Dolby and at an upscale
joint. The sound was fantastic though...a fantastic acoustic
space...the best we had played on yet.
2007-09-14-Spec.Dev-live@ThomasDolbyAkron
http://spec.dev.experimedia.net/live/2007-09-14-Spec.Dev-live@ThomasDolbyAkron.mp3
NOW..........................
Date : 2007-10-13
Location : Live on WRUW 91.1 FM Case Western Reserve's radio station :
CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA
Description : Our latest style shift has taken us even further into
minimalistic experimental sounds utilizing an even larger amount of
found sound field/phonography recordings due in part to our growing
interest in the works of classical experimental and musique concrete
pioneers such as Luc Ferrari, Pascal Comlade, Pierre Henry, Francois
Bayle, Stockhausen along with modern experimental counterparts such as
Alva Noto, Nurse With Wound, Daniel Menche, Richard Chartier, and many
more. Out of all our performances this one by far was the most
relaxed, rewarding, and natural feeling performance experience thus
far. The monitoring situation was great and content wise we were very
happy with the results of this new direction while listening to the
recording during the car ride home.
We are not prepared to share this recording publicly yet as it will
function as the basis of our studio album(s?). We will however be
performing a very similar set on 2007-10-18 at The Grog shop in
Cleveland opening for Digitalism. This will be our last performance
for the season before focusing our attention towards strictly studio
based efforts.
A crazy but educational first year working together.
||||||Additional download : Ableton Live Machine's used for the MOCA set.
http://spec.dev.experimedia.net/kit/dbbMachines.zip
contains two ableton live .adg files.
These are the two main machines we built and used at the MOCA set.
dbbBassMachine.adg is a bass machine with a bunch of arps, note
lengths, two instances of operator, and some fx to tweek and get some
funky, crazy, and dissonant bass lines out of....its pretty diverse
and tweekable. Toggle between different arps lengths, speeds, and
note lenghts to get crazy variations on the same pattern.
dbbDrumMachine.adg is a crazy drum machine we built that has 8 or 9
impulses in a rack. Just build a kit into each impulse and use the
pitch knob in intervals of 12 to dial between the drum kits. Then
each kit has midi muters too. Just dig through the rack heirarchy to
discover some crazy tweekability and control. The random function is
nice for adding some breaks to the beat. With pitch you can offset
your sounds at non multiple of 12 intervals for some interesting
breaks as well. Excellent machine for live beat tweeking. You can
turn a single midi drum pattern into several different beats and
rhythms by just turning various knobs.
http://spec.dev.experimedia.net
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