Unwind Autumn Equinox live session, 2011-09-23 by nofi
From the Unwind Autumn Equinox party, bidding goodbye to Summer and welcome to Autumn. Free to download or stream.
the silent stars, sintéticos mixtape
the silent stars, sintéticos mixtape by nofi
A 20m mixtape, featuring excerpts from my recent collection of weird tales:
- calma voces v.01
- fallos v.01
- la hechicera v.02
- pequeña maquina v.01
- dispersion vectores v.03
- ruidos extraños v.01
- transmigracion planetaria v.02
Unwind: Autumn Equinox
Unwind, the popular weekly event for ambient, downtempo electronic and nuJazz music, will bid goodbye to Summer and welcome Autumn with a special party on Friday, September 23, 2011, the Autumnal Equinox.
Join residents Adejai (aka Josh Helton), Josh Elias, Nofi (aka Jeffrey Melton) and other special guests as we celebrate a summer of wonderful nights and look forward to another season. The event starts at 8 p.m. until later on the patio at CS3: Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, and Spirits.
All ages are welcome on the patio until 10pm; 21 and over with proper ID in the bar and after 10pm on the patio. There is NO cover charge.
Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, and Spirits is located at 1915 South Calhoun Street Fort Wayne, IN 46802-5261. Call 260.456.7005 for more information.
melton.drone.mixtape, 2011.09.18
melton.drone.mix-2011.09.18 by nofi
A 20m mix of recent freeform work, including electronic drones and noise, field recordings and granular textures. Free to download or stream:
- morning birdsong, grand marais, MI
- testing old instruments
- star sailing, excerpt
- front porch, fort wayne, IN
- sinister, excerpt
- core breach, excerpt
- lake superior waves on rock beach, grand marais, MI
- granular cloud, flute
- granular cloud, tabalas
- water wheel, fort wayne, IN
- granular stretch, orchestral
melton.drone.03 Ableton instrument rack
Hot-on-the-heels of sharing my melton.drone Reaktor ensembles, it occurred to me I could create something similar with Ableton’s native devices in an instrument rack. So, I’ve uploaded melton.drone.03.adg (zip archive, requires Ableton and the Operator synth instrument). I assigned the main controls for the oscillators as macros in the first instrument rack—but be sure to utilize the volume controls for each oscillator in Operator as well—and grouped controls for the filters and saturator as macros in the effects rack. I added a compressor and limiter on the end for better dynamics control.
For melton.drone.03, the signal path is Operator Oscillators 1-4 > Filter 1 (default Lowpass, but switchable) > Saturator > Filter 2 (usually Highpass, but switchable) > Filter 3 (usually Highpass, but switchable) > Compressor > Limiter
I find it helpful to create a clip with a latched note to trigger the rack (one that loops continuously inside of its start and end markers). Follow these instructions to make one:
- Make a note that starts at 1.0.0, set the note end at 4.0.0
- Set the clip start marker at 1.0.0
- Set the loop braces to – start: 2.0.0 , – end 3.0.0
This is still a work-in-progress, so please share your presets and any feedback with me. Here’s the CC license:
melton.drone.03.adg by Jeffrey Melton, aka nofi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.nofi.org.