Back To The Pudel - Hamburg 7 September 2008

I haven't been to this place in 9 years or so, and I'm amazed that it's still going. So here you go - I'll be dj-ing at Hamburg's finest nano-club, the Golden Pudel on Sunday 7 September 2008. I also have 2 gigs lined up for October 9 and 11 as part of a festival, but I'm not supposed to reveal anything until the organisers do.

Berlin 2 Aug - time slot change

Yo, apparently I'm now playing from 1-3 am tomorrow. Once again, it's at:

Club Maria
Maria Am Ostbahnhof, Stralauer Platz 34 / 35, An Der Schillingbrücke, Friendrichshain, Berlin.
1 - 3 DJ Cylob
3 - 5 Rob Hall
5 ... Adam X

I've been doing more to my program, as usual, and I now have a set of functions that skip around in the track to create real-time "edits" and fills. It sounds mental! If you are in or around Berlin, don't miss this gig, especially if you need something different to minimal techno.

DJ Cylob @ Braunschweig 12 July - MP3

You know the score...

PART 1

PART 2


This time, the visuals worked like a charm, along with a few additions. The real-time stats have been improved, and the visual representation of DJ-ing activity now includes when the effects are patched in. See it for yourself in a couple of weeks in Berlin!
Music-wise this was a mostly solid selection with the odd wacky moment... I had a mishap halfway through when the Monome became unplugged, which meant I had to then restart my program, playing a track off iTunes in the meantime. That didn't seem to ruin things too much though.

DJ Cylob, 2 Aug in Berlin, Deutschland

EDITED

Please refer to this later post:

http://cylob.blogspot.com/2008/08/berlin-2-aug-time-slot-change.html

Got Googled

I don't know if this is new or old news, but standing around on a nearby street in Berlin one morning early last week, I was passed by a slow driving black car, complete with roof mounted cameras and a Google sticker on the side. So when the Berlin street view comes out, as it surely will, look out for me staring grumpily at the van with my arms folded, wearing a yellow t-shirt and black jeans. Unless they've perfected their face blurring technology by then, of course.

DJ Cylob - Braunschweig, Deutschland - Samstag Juli 12

First booking of the new era.

Sat July 12, doors 21:00
Abteilung für Sonische Forschung @ HBK (Univ. of Arts), Braunschweig
the venue adress is: Johannes Selenka Platz 1, Braunschweig
lineup: Cylob, DJ Donna Summer, DJ Sci

Ich wohne jetzt in Berlin

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Record Collection Must Go!

I have job lots of old school hip-hop, techno and electro vinyl that need to go before I move. Below are the links to the ads. If you mention this blog in your reply I'll give you a healthy discount. Buyer collects from west London!
I will not show you into my inner sanctum, nor am I selling any mega-rare white labels. Keep an eye here, I will update the status of the lots, and note when new ones go up.

[update] gone!

New Performance System

(thanks to the Polizøn Crew for the vid.)

So this is how it was in Madrid, with my own visuals patch running on a second laptop. The pretty patterns are reflecting the status of buttons on the Monome, the text scrolling at the top is showing track titles, below that is the beat count (ie the number of beats so far) and the text at the bottom is showing things like the BPM, Process.elapsedTime (if you are an SC person you will know what that means) and various rave instructions ("time to make the floor burn" etc.)

Shame it stopped working after about half an hour! It just goes to show, you should always test a system as it will be used. I shan't bore you with the details, but next time it will stay the course, if there is ever a next time... (P.S. I'm perpetually available for discotheque duty.)

Berlin

Here is the news: I'm moving to Berlin, initially for 6 months. I'll be landing on the 1st June, so if you live there and want to be my friend, drop me a line.

Madrid Gig Streaming?

I can't guarantee anything, as I don't know on which part of the website it will be available, if at all. However, I've been told my gig in Madrid tomorrow night (Thursday 8th May) will be streamed live here: http://www.centralmusical.es/.

Legend

Computer Music issue 126 / June 08

Flyer for London 17 May

PolyRow

Did this a few days ago, a new sequencer for the MMS - PolyRow, inspired by the PolyMachine in ixiQuarks. Nothing much to listen to, just proving the concept as usual.

Cybersonica Conic Social London 6 May Flyer

My demo starts at 7.30. Info at http://conicsocial.cybersonica.org/.

Bangface appearance time

The weekend schedule is supposed to be above top secret, so I hope I won't be shot for letting on that I'm playing tonight / friday night 7-10 PM in the "Queen Vic" (aka Room 3) see you there!

DJ Cylob - London - 6 & 17 May

The gigs are coming in thick and fast for May! Here's a couple, both in London.

The first is a Cybersonica event on Tuesday 6 May, where I'll be demonstrating some of the music making software I've been working on, and my use of the Monome. More info will appear here: http://conicsocial.cybersonica.org/.

The second is a Flesh Dunce mini-rave in South London, for which I'll be DJ-ing with my own system, possibly incorporating a little live beat jamming:

Flesh Dunce presents CYLOB and TRENCHER
@ The Bunker Club
46 Deptford Broadway SE8
Saturday 17th May
Entry £3.00
myspace.com/fleshdunce.

Cheers

I'll say it again, thanks very much if you sent me a donation on the back of my recent digital EP release. I really appreciate it, but more to the point, it does actually make a big difference in terms of being able to pursue my musical activities. The good thing about having a blog is that you can see this process for yourself.

Flyer for Madrid

The mean and moody picture is by Emma Jane Richards. It looks like some studio pose but it's simply from my Bangface gig in December 2006, under red and green lights, as I was looking to one side trying to work out which knob to twiddle (hence the hard stare)

Anyway here is the official flyer for Madrid, and it contains all pertinent information:

POLIZØN presenta - por primera vez en Madrid a CYLOB
en un DJ set especial de 3 horas

+ Polizøn DJs

Jueves, 8 De May De 2008
Sala Ritmo y Compás / Conde de Vilches, 22
Metros: Diego de León / Cartagena / Avd. América
Entrada: 12 euros con refresco / cerveza

Más información: polizonlive@gmail.com

MMS - Chord Sequencer

Demonstrating the creation and storing of chords, editing individual notes for velocity, tuning and sound variation, editing a separate group of these parameters for the overall chord, and then sequencing these chords. Sorry the harmonies I came up with aren't very nice to listen to, I was concentrating on showing the features and keeping everything in frame.