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Oscillator Fumes – Live at Plattfon records, Basel, Switzerland, November 6th
Oct 27th
Nate, Travis and I are going to send out wiggly waves at Plattfon Records in Basel Switzerland on Sunday November 6th. More info on Plattfon here.
There will be coffee, cakes and many other guests floating in and out of the mix starting at 4PM Central European Time, 10AM Eastern Time, and a very early 7AM for those on the West Coast:
– RSVP to the Facebook event here –
In the meantime, watch our hotelroomjam from St. Louis:
Tune in to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscillator-fumes if the embed above is funky.
Oscillator Fumes
Oct 17th
Nathaniel Murphy, Travis Thatcher and I recorded and webcast a synth jam from my hotel room in St. Louis, MO on Oct 3rd, 2011. Here it is:
Happy New Year from Pronto
Jan 1st
Happy 2011 to you people! Here’s our version of “Auld Lang Syne.” You can download it if you’d like too.
Wrapping up 2010
Dec 31st
With a bit of sadness, but mostly excited liberation, we packed up the ProntoLabs this week and placed it in storage for a few month hiatus. The chilly, crappy, sweaty, noisy, complainy confines of our facility on Prince Street in Brooklyn, finally became too much to bear. A new studio situation is developing and I’ll have more to say on that when there’s more to say. In the meantime, here are a pair of videos from the last couple of days.
Timelapse of packing up:
The End Of Prince Street 2010:
Happy New Year!
Mikael Jorgensen & Travis Thatcher at The Shrine Of Native Rites For Electric Winter @ Eyebeam, NYC
Dec 12th
Travis Thatcher & I played electronics @ Eyebeam, NYC in the following installation:
“Esther Cheung & David Jimison - Shrine of Native Rites for the Electric Winter
Esther Cheung & David Jimison use technology in rituals of psychosomatic magick. The Shrine is a sacred space of the electro native. Projected symbols of a computational astrology on synthetic hides enclose an ambient electro tea ceremony. “
The Shrine of Native Rites for Electric Winter @ Eyebeam 12.11.10
Synthi Seconds
Nov 16th
Here’s a handful of videos I’ve made using my EMS Synthi synthesizer. I thought it would be an interesting limitation to only record about 60 seconds of a texture, perhaps wiggle some knobs, move on to another and then repeat the process. I plugged it straight into my laptop, so there’s no external signal processing going on. Everything you hear is being generated by this wonderful beast.
Pronto Daytrotter Session
Oct 26th
In the fall of 2009, Chris Girard, Tunde Oyewole, Greg O’Keeffe & I recorded some songs for the wonderful people at Daytrotter. You can take a listen here.
Next stop: Solid Sound Festival – August 13-15, 2010
Jul 13th
The Solid Sound Festival is a 3-day Wilco curated music, comedy and arts festival being held at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA, August 13-15th. The lineup includes:
- Pronto
- Wilco
- Mavis Staples
- Nels Cline
- Autumn Defense
- On Fillmore
- Avi Buffalo
- The Books
- Brenda
- Vetiver
- Deep Blue Organ Trio
- Sir Richard Bishop
- Mountain Man
- Outrageous Cherry
- Jeff Tweedy solo
- Numero Group DJs
- A comedy cabaret including Todd Barry, Kristen Schaal, Hannibal Buress, and John Mulaney
- A Video installation by Cassandra C. Jones
- Plus a steaming piles of amazingness
ARP in Portland
Jul 2nd
Pronto LP02 Recording Update
Mar 16th
Greetings friends.
We’ve been extraordinarily busy in the studio for the past week. Tucked in between two substantial Wilco tours, we’ve managed to eek out about 16 basic tracks for what will be “The Next Pronto Record.”
This time around Greg and I are recording with the delightful and deft Adam Chilenski on electric and acoustic bass at The Bunker in Brooklyn with John Davis and Aaron Nevezie behind the controls. This session has exceeded all of my lofty expectations as far as sounds and performances go. Pick good people and trust in their skills and instincts and you can’t go wrong.
Yesterday we had our old friend, and Pronto alum Erik Paparazzi swing by and play some excellent guitar on two songs, “Stupid Angels” and “Biz Dev.” Nice.
It’s surprising to me how difficult it is to articulate just how excited and pleased I am with the goings-on of the past week. In six short days we’ve produced a considerable amount of material that requires further consideration and microscopic evaluation. I can’t wait to get it going and finish this thing by the Fall of 2010.
Thanks for stopping by.
Mikael