Wednesday, March 17, 2010

steve adams' dark forest trio live @ hemlock tavern s.f. 02/21/10

steve adams' dark forest trio @ hemlock tavern s.f.  by  organofqwerty
steve adams: alto sax
scott amendola: drums, electronics
john hanes: laptop, electronics
jazz is referenced. so are the flintstones. 
i used some some great stuff i grabbed from ubuweb, including "via (48 dante variations)" by caroline bergvall, "night birds" by sainkho namtchylak, a little bit of signifying monkey, and a walk-on by kurt schwitters. 

Monday, March 15, 2010

dreambira

organ of qwerty : dreambira from organofqwerty on Vimeo.

music and video by john hanes (except for the shangri-las bits). video shot on iphone 3g with qik video. music recorded and mixed on live 8.1.1 with liberal use of max for live devices, including ml.grainfreeze, ml.circular.doppler, fp.granulate, and a bunch of pluggos. video edited on imovie '09.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

jo(h)n+aurora live @ ivy room

free improvisation recorded live at the ivy room, albany ca. on 01/25/10.
jon raskin: saxes
john shiurba: guitar
aurora josephson: voice
john hanes: drums
there's eight tracks here - hit the fast forward button to advance.
<a href="http://organofqwerty.bandcamp.com/album/jo-h-n-aurora-live-ivy-room">jo(h)n+aurora1 by organofqwerty</a>

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

solstice overtone drone


my laptop set at polly moller's "long night's moon" concert at the luggage store gallery. the only sound sources were overtone-singing vocal samples of cary sheldon and an iphone recording of a small bell.
thanks to cary, polly, rent, c.j., matt, suki, michael, and amar.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

skronkathon 09


steve adams and I debuted our lloopp duo at this year's skronkathon at 21 grand. many thanks to tom duff for organizing and recording.






Wednesday, May 20, 2009

prepared


john finkbeiner: prepared guitar
john hanes: prepared drums
recorded live in the green box (my tiny home studio) 05/04/09






Saturday, May 16, 2009

macs'n'saxes


klaus filip and noid, the creators of lloopp, my sound mangling app of choice (free, open source, based on max-msp) were in town for the cycling'74 conference, and I helped get them a gig (4/20/09) at the luggage store gallery (thanks to rent romus for making it happen). they invited me to join them for a set and suggested i invite some non-laptop players to join us. i grabbed steve adams and philip greenlief. here's the result: