This highlight from my recent live show is one I'm particularly happy with!

Accidents of the good kind!

It starts with quite a dancey section and then moves through a couple of nice melodies and into a fast but really atmospheric section which I stumbled on by accident!

Sometimes when improvising live something unintentional happens and I just go with it and even amplify that element to explore it. In this case it was the very fast arpeggiated melodies that start around 1 minute 3 seconds into this clip.

I actually didn't mean to dial in such a fast rhythm but when I did I liked the sound of it so let that happy accident lead the music!

You can see me running with it and continuing in that vein with the fast rhythms and building on them for several minutes to create a soundscape with very little percussion.

The result is something quite different to what I normally create. I rather like it and I think I will continue this experiment in my next set and perhaps create a track to release around these ideas.

Planning vs Creativity

Though I plan the actual patch (the way the modular is wired together) with great detail, I do design it in such a way that it incorporates randomness and allows for happy accidents like this one.

My job when playing live is then to guide the machine and perhaps pick up on things and highlight them as I did here.

In this way the planning stage where I set the patch up uses the organised part of my brain but the actual show can be mostly using the creative/feeling site of my brain (if nothing major goes wrong that is!)

Win a cassette mixtape and Sony Walkman!

Whilst I'm here, in case you didn't see it already I'm currently running a competition to guess the number of cables I have for my modular! The prize is a mixtape cassette that my new track "The Dreamer" is on PLUS a newly refurbished Sony Walkman to play it.

For full details and to enter check out my post here: https://peakd.com/music/@tdctunes/win-a-sony-walkman-and-escapism-mixtape-vol-2-on-cassette

Catch the next sow live!

I'm playing live on Brixton Radio, Twitch and VIMM every Monday at 9pm UK time and I hope to see you at one of my future shows!