embral
0 Two new Live dRachEmUsiK Releases
Downloads are available here
You may order the physical CD’s here
dRachEmUsiK
The last 6 years have been all about live improvisation for me. I finally came to the realization I will never take the time to recreate studio versions of the music.
Musically, I’m changing directions and it was important to document the period between 2011-2017. The plan is two release Vol. 3 & 4 in March. The recordings are unedited. Download includes album art, formatted and suitable for CD creation.
The music is free to download. Please consider making a donation.
Downloads are available here
You may order the physical CD’s here
As always, thanks for your support!
0 embral Midwest Fall Tour
embral @embralmusic #embral hits the road, playing
new music in new and old places with our pal Tim Kaiser
on most shows. And we’ll have some new merch and stuff.
Come say hi.
Tour main FB event page here.
Dates, venues, links and line-ups below
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Detroit, MI @ Trinosophes
w/ Devotional
https://www.facebook.com/events/2015944361997325/
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Chicago, IL @ Slate Arts
w/ Rasplyn, Derek Allen, Curt Oren / Rose Bouboushian duo
https://www.facebook.com/events/148659335872490/
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5
St. Louis, MO @ Foam
w/ Moonrace, Eric Hall, Alex Cunningham
https://www.facebook.com/events/1754346498206855/
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Lawrence, KS @ Percolator
w/ Tim Kaiser, Battalion of Cloudships, Tensor Sensellation
https://www.facebook.com/events/1601011099963347/
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Kansas City, MO @ Awful House
w/ Tim Kaiser, Battalion of Cloudships, TBA
facebook.com/awfulhouse69
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Lincoln, NE @ Toothblack House
w/ Tim Kaiser, The Mighty Vitamins
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Des Moines, IA @ The Fremont
w/ Tim Kaiser, TBA
facebook.com/DSMFremont
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Minneapolis, MN @ Eagles 34
w/ Tim Kaiser, Dahlheimer, Mount Curve
https://www.facebook.com/events/1398018563644138/
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 1PM
La Crosse, WI @ Old Towne Strings
oldtownestrings.com
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 8PM
La Crosse, WI @ Cavalier Theater
cavaliertheater.com
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Lafayette, IN @ Spot Tavern
w/ Health & Beauty, Matt Schneider, Wooden Highway
http://www.spottavern.com/new-shows/nov-12-health-and-beauty-matt-schneider-embral-wooden-highway
0 Week 1 of new dRachEmUsiK music
Today marks the end of the first week of actual work on the new dRachEmUsiK release. I’ve been contemplating this music and improvising for almost a year and it’s exciting to actually begin the process of bringing it to life.
Right now it’s all about core sound design for the instruments. My primary sources for the sound design are coming from what I call my “textural workstation” (first image below) which consists of four MarSynths, horndog, MFOS Sound Lab, and Koma electroacoustic field kit and my live performance rig (second image). It’s been slow going but that’s to be expected.
The sound design and instrumentation is particularly challenging for this music because I’m creating the music for real time, multi-speaker performance consisting of 16 discreet channels and 16 speakers. So I’m bouncing back and forth between sound design, composition and experimenting with the arrangement of speakers, routing and instrument placement within the speaker array.
More as things progress. Hope to have some audio examples next week.
Peace
0 Asheville electro-music festival May 5-6
Hey folks,
Join us in Asheville NC this weekend for the Asheville electro-music festival.
I’ll be playing Saturday with embral.
May 5 and 6, 2017
White Horse
Black Mountain, NC
tickets
Friday $15
Saturday $15
two days $25
| electro-music Asheville brings some of the world’s finest electronic and experimental musicians to the mountains of Western North Carolina. They will be joined by local artists for two days of compelling live music and innovative technology. Musical styles cover a broad spectrum, guaranteed to be creative and original. Live video art will accompany the concerts. |
0 2017 NYE electro-music.com Live Streaming Event
2017 NYE electro-music.com Live Streaming Event.
Tune in for the 13 hour, electro-music NYE streaming event!
Dec. 31st, 15:30 GMT (10:30am ET) to Jan. 1st, 04:30 GMT (11:30pm ET).
Join us in chat!
Celebrate the new year with live performances by 21 experimental electroacoustic and electronic musicians from around the world.
I’ll play a 60 min set as dRachEmUsiK at 00:30 GMT (07:30pm ET).
Happy New Year!!!
1 dRachEmUsiK 2017 Live Rig
I'm super happy with the dRachEmUsiK live rig for 2017!
I’m super happy with the dRachEmUsiK live rig for 2017! The new iPad Pro is powerful enough to be able to handle hardware and virtual instruments and processing in real time without a laptop or external mixers. The entire rig can be carried on to an airplane and takes under 15 minutes to set up and break down. Amazing. Cables, DI are stored in the side pocket of the EWI case. All I need from the venue is a single mic stand.
Composition and Pre-production work is being done mostly in Cosmosƒ Saturn and MetaSynth
Hardware:
*iPad Pro, 128 GB
*Zoom U-44 Audio/MIDI Interface
*SoftStep and MIDI Expander
*EWI, analog output
*MarsSynth MSB2
Software:
*Kymatica AUM (mixer), Sector, AudioShare and AUFX
*ApeSoft processing
*LoopyHD
*Addictive Synth
dRachEmUsiK 2017 live rig set up
dRachEmUsiK 2017 live rig packed
Road brief case 1
Road brief case 2
EWI and SoftStep case open
0 Electro-music Festival 2017 is moving to the Midwest!
SAVE THE DATE! TELL YOUR FRIENDS! electro-music Festival 2017 is moving to the midwest
SAVE THE DATE! TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
ELECTRO MUSIC IS MOVING TO THE MIDWEST
2017 will be the first e-m held in Indianapolis, Indiana. August 4-6, instead of MEME (the Midwest Electro-Music Experience), The Irving Theater will host experimental musicians from the United States and all over the world.
The Irving Theater
5505 East Washington St
Indianapolis, IN 46219
August 4-6, 2017
For over a decade, people have gathered together to listen to and perform experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music, to swap gear and ideas, and to find like-minded life-long friends under the umbrella of electro-music.com. These gatherings have fostered an eclectic and diverse community of musicians and makers, improvisers and composers, amateurs and academics. The strangest thing about the electro-music community? That this might be the first time you’ve ever heard of it.
For the past six years, the annual electro-music festival has been held in Huguenot, NY. As of the last day of 2016’s electro-music festival, the upstate New York days have been uploaded to the archive.
Stay tuned for more info as things develop!
0 Bob Bucko Jr. w/ dRachEmUsiK & Adam Riviere Live in Indianapolis, Oct. 5th
Bob Bucko Jr. w/ dRachEmUsiK & Adam Riviere Live in Indianapolis Oct. 5th
Bob Bucko Jr. Absolute Endings Tour with dRachEmUsiK and Adam Riviere
Wednesday, October 5th
Playground Productions, 5529 Bonna Ave. Ste 10
Indianapolis, IN 46219
Doors at 6:30
Music 7-10
All Ages, Cover $5.00
0 Music for the Tacopocalypse
Tacopocalypse - Live improvisations by urbster1, dRachEmUsiK, onewyaness, jmtta
SOMEHOW I figured now was a good time to get the Tacopocalypse music out into the universe.
Tacopocalypse was recorded on 5-19-2012 at Bela Dubby in Lakewood, OH. Bela Dubby was a wonderful art, music, food venue that closed the day after this recording. It was replaced by a Taco place. At some point during the night the closing of Bela Dubby was referred to as The Tacopocalypse.
The two tracks on the release are group improvisations done by Aaron Urbanski aka urbster1, Adam Holquist aka onewayness, Charles Shriner aka dRachEmUsiK and Jason Breitigan aka jmtta.
This is a free download.
New Release: Mirrors to the Bonfire
onewayness + dRachEmUsiK Mirrors to the Bonfire Release Date: 08.29. 2016 onomastic records | MCSD NetLabel
onewayness + dRachEmUsiK
Mirrors to the Bonfire
Release Date: 08.29. 2016 onomastic records | MCSD NetLabel
Mirrors to the Bonfire, the latest collaboration from the critically acclaimed duo of onewayness (Adam Holquist/Erie, PA) and dRachEmUsiK (Charles Shriner/Indianapolis, IN), replaces the exuberance and emotional optimism of their last full-length, 2014’s Immeasurable, with emotional ambiguity and complexity, swapping comfort and joy for unsettling, but ultimately rewarding, drama and melancholy.
Mirrors to the Bonfire is a series of meditations on human feedback and the powers of interpersonal interaction. The three long tracks sculpt a polished narrative of conflict and resolution that cycles in and out of warm nostalgia and dark, uncharted territory. Dark analog drones and electroacoustic concrète clatter give way to extended melodic duo explorations for acoustic guitar & electronic wind instrument.
Mirrors to the Bonfire is available as a physical CD or digital download from onomastic records and MCSD NetLabel
