Artists A.Squared: Extend the Voice A capella music places the human voice front and center. It throws out instruments and synthesised sounds leaving vocals in a raw form or layered in lush harmonies. The Yale University students who make up a capella group A.Squared are taking the paradigm, and pushing it in an experimental direction:...
Events Ableton University Tour Are you looking to use Live for your degree? Or maybe you'd just like to explore music between classes? Get hands-on with Live 9 and Push during the Ableton University Tour. Throughout April and May the Tour will be visiting dozens of schools around the world. At each stop Ableton...
Events Moogfest 2014 Ableton Workshops If you’re in Asheville this year for Moogfest don’t forget to swing round the Ableton workshops held across three days at the Masonic Temple venue, 80 Broadway Street. When: Thursday, April 24th 12:30pm - 1:30pm Where: Masonic Temple - Downstairs Live 9 Tips & Tricks with Mike Huckaby Mike Huckaby...
Artists Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory: Instruments & Setup We recently filmed Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory as they prepared to perform Terry Riley’s “In C” at London’s Barbican Centre. Curious to learn more about the electronic and acoustic instruments involved in this collaboration, we filmed in-depth interviews with Hendrik Weber (Pantha du Prince) and Heming Valebjørg...
Downloads Puremagnetik Effect Racks: 200 Racks for Sound Sculpting Available Now With the RackPak series, the sound designers at Puremagnetik have explored a diverse range of sound manipulation possibilities using Live’s effect devices as building blocks. From crunchy guitar amp modeling to wild, glitch-filled delays, Puremagnetik Effect Racks collects these Racks - over 200 in all - in one Live Pack....
Artists Decap and Brady Watt on Push & working with Ski Beatz In hip-hop history, Nashua, New Hampshire, doesn’t hold much of a candle to New York City. Two sons of Nashua, however, are making a soulful impression on New York hip-hop. With Ski Beatz as mentor, the likes of Curren$y and Jay Electronica as collaborators, and with Push in their arsenal,...
Tutorials Get That Swing: Drum Programming Tips Are your drums feeling a bit too stiff? Sometimes, that's an asset - plenty of classic electro is built on machine-perfect rhythms. But it's not for every case, and, often enough, you need a more "human" feel to your rhythm. That's where the tutorials in this post come in -...
News Drumdrops A Fistful of Drum Kits - Three Diverse Kits with Character, Plus Free Hybrid Drums A drum kit might be an essential kind of sound, but no two kits sound alike. Sometimes you need gentler taps on the drums, other times you want the smack of an overdrive kit. A Fistful of Drum Kits by Drumdrops presents three different kits, each for a different range...
Artists Tom Demac Goes Against the Clock with Push Time pressure can bring out amazing results from an artist - just ask Four Tet or Certified Trainer Michael Greig. With the series, "Against the Clock", FACT Magazine challenges musicians to make as much of a track as they can for 10 minutes.
Artists Watch: Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory “I don’t see my role as someone who gives direction,” says Hendrik Weber, aka Pantha du Prince, in our new short documentary. “I filter the sound from each musician.” Coming from a background making electronic music as a solo artist, it was the sound of church bells that first piqued...
Tutorials Free Webinars and Tutorials from Warp Academy If you're looking to learn more about Live - at any level - then you'll definitely want to check out the upcoming free webinars and currently-available free tutorials from the diverse instructors at Warp Academy. Featuring Certified Trainers Isaac Cotec, Vespers, Jake Perrine, Ian Gallagher, plus more experts, Warp Academy...
Artists Improvisation and Experimentation: Wesseltoft Schwarz Berglund With backgrounds in jazz and electronic music, Bugge Wesseltoft, Henrik Schwarz, and Daniel Berglund have individually established themselves as masters of cutting-edge improvisational music. Working together as a trio, the musicians find inspiration in experimental collaborative techniques.
Artists Push at Universities - Inspiring Performance Videos It's been inspiring to see the beautiful performances by Push players, as they've come to master the instrument. A couple recent videos from two different Universities show how musicians have made nuanced, effecting music with Push. First up, musician and biologist Omer Eilam performs "Electronic variations on a Bach Chaccone",...
Downloads Free Music from Cutting-Edge Controllerists of Warper Party For nearly a decade, Warper Party has served as a regular showcase for cutting-edge music, visual art, and performance in New York City. A number of premier controllerist musicians have played Warper Party - and many of them also appear on Comp #1, a new free compilation from the collective....
Artists Free Music from Tim Shiel When solo musician and Gotye-member Tim Shiel composed the soundtrack for the iOS game Duet, he designed one long piece of music to accompany the evolving gameplay. Telling us of his goal with the soundtrack, he reflected on designing music with a "fluidity and movement [that] often *feels* like it's...
News Darwin by Flatpack: Adapt, Evolve, Mutate Whether you need an epic sound for a beat, a deep pad for a techno track, or a suitable grandiose sound for cinema soundtracking, there’s plenty of opportunities to take advantage of lush, evolving sounds. Like its namesake, Darwin, a new Pack from Flatpack, is all about evolution - filter...
