mad scientist drummer
At the end of my tour in October, I went to Cluj, Romania. I was invited by Deutsches Kulturzentrum Klausenburg to play a solo concert at Boiler Club, which is located in the basement of the Fabrica de Pensule, a nice place with lots of studios and galleries in one old factory bulding. The night [...]
After jamming with a friend’s Boss RC-20 I decided to integrate live looping in my setup. Since I haven’t found any device that completely suits my needs as a drummer, I started to build my own looper device: the Loopdeck. It’s a portable device that fits into a 19″ rack and runs a minimal Linux [...]
I will play some more open air shows in Germany this summer (update!): 21.06. FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE Greifswald 25.06. LOCALIZE – DAS HEIMATFESTIVAL Potsdam 30.06. FUSION FESTIVAL Lärz 09.07. ORWOHAUS FESTIVAL Berlin 29.07. BREEZA FESTIVAL Altdöbern 30.07. SUN FLOWER FESTIVAL Freiberg 13.08. ODERBRUCH OPEN AIR Fort Gorgast 10.09. LIEDERLAUSCHEN 4 Berlin 14.10. NÜRNBERG.POP Nürnberg [...]
This time I will try to explain how my MIDI drum trigger system works. As you might have seen in the videos (or live), I am trying to control as many functions as possible using my drumsticks, thus creating an interactive electronic instrument around my drumset. While it will take a larger number of posts [...]
It all started with the MIDIbox64 I built back in 2003. I needed a physical controller for some freeware drum machines running on a Windows-laptop, and decided to build one myself using the manuals and schematics you can still find on Thorsten Klose’s uCApps website. It is based on the MIDIbox Hardware Platform and uses [...]