Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Rainbow Serpent 2011 - Ascension Engine Review

ASCENSION ENGINE 2011 @ COSM DOME 

ZERO POINT (Darren Curtis) 2011 Set

Well Rainbow Serpent 2011 was crazy. Ascension Engine was stepped up to the next level by Scott Baker - visual and musical mastermind ! This year it was held in the COSM dome a 11 meter dome flanked by 4 small domes with Visual Art by some of the best Artists in the world including the Master of Spiritual Art - Alex Grey. His art flanked the celling of the COSM dome (named after Alex Grey's NYC Sacred Temple)

Friday night and Sunday Night was the 'Ascension Engine' my set came in after ABRE OJAS (Scott Baker) http://abreojos.net - such a amazing modular synth and Live Musical Synthesis of his new work 'Chakras' - check it and support his amazing work.

HERE IS THE DOME WE PERFORMED IN - COSM DOME!







2:30am Monday morning was ZERO POINT (Darren Curtis) 

PART 1: Musical Aspect

First was the use of Seb's Toriton-Plus: (Lazer Controlled Water Device)




So the lazer light was effected by the water and I used the power of breath to control different elements in Ableton Live, by effecting the wave ripples in the water which in turn modulated the lazer light. Thus this device was mapped to MAX/MSP:

Here is some pics of the MAX/MSP patch so basically I add set different mapping to trigger a whole array of samples in a organic way in 'Live' - most of this of this Seb's programming by the way (thanks) - but I do understand how it maps lol. and the bottom section is my own coding for triggering samples




I use frequencies attuned the science of RA see http://ramusic.com/ which is placing A @ 424 Hz

I also used binaural beats based on 2hz to 8hz - attuned to harmonics of 424 Hz 

I also did live Harmonic Toning. 

The adaption of the Live piece will be released on the upcoming CD 'RA'