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Creating Sweeps and Swells with Reason’s Thor Synth [Tutorial]

moshang — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:42:57 +0000

I’ve been using Reason to create sweeps and swells for my MLO sets, and I thought it would be a good subject for a first tutorial.

I’m using Reason 6.0.2 in the vid, but the Thor synth has been around since Reason 4.

Ode to Shruthi-1

moshang — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:38:21 +0000

Here’s something I made to show off the Shruthi-1 a little more, made with 100% Shruthi-1 preset sounds. Love this little box!

What Comes Around – a self-remixing album for Android smartphones

moshang — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:39:45 +0000

I have just released a new full-length album called What Comes Around. It exists only as an app for iPhone and Android, and it remixes itself on every listen. Listeners also have the option of turning on the microphone and letting the app mix in environmental sounds. Have a listen to the free version doing its thing below.

What Comes Around [Free] – First Iteration by MoShang

For iPhone and other iOS devices, first download the free RjDj host app. Both the free and full versions are available as additional download from within RjDj. Alternatively, get the free version or the full version from the RjDj website.

For Android, get the 5-song free version from the Market here, and the 14-song full version here.

Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome!

Here’s a video of What Comes Around doing its thing on a walk in the park.

I’ve managed to thank two of them in person on this forum, but again a huge thanks to the creators of the free software that makes this album possible, Miller Puckette (Pure Data), Peter Brinkmann (libpd), and Chris McCormick (PdDroidParty). I’ve left details of my process on this forum (towards the bottom of the page). Big thanks also to Robert Thomas who helped me make the album available on the RjDj Network.

A Farewell In The Evening Rain [NEX-5N Video Test]

moshang — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:02:30 +0000

I thought I’d do a a quick video experiment with Sony’s NEX-5n. Shot handheld on a cloudy day in Intelligent Auto mode with the toy camera filter selected. Shot in 1080p at 60 frames a second – edited an slowed down by half in Windows Live Movie Maker and exported as .wmv. I’m looking forward to getting a Hague mini motion-cam to use with this camera – should make for much smoother video. The soundtrack is A Farewell In The Evening Rain off my Further East album.

Dark Star

moshang — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:33:36 +0000

I got a new toy today in the form of a Doepfer Dark Energy – cute as a button! I made this demo for it to see if I can get my head around it. Hey, I think I can!

MLO#24 vs Electric Sheep

moshang — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:11:56 +0000

A big thanks to David Carboni for tipping me off to the cool synergy between my tunes and the hypnotic visuals from the Electric Sheep screensaver – or rather, “collaborative abstract artwork” as its creator Scott Draves describes it. In short, rather than just displaying the visuals each computer running the screensaver forms part of supercomputer and renders individual frames for these spectacular animations. Even better, the resulting visuals are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 (USA) license, meaning I am free to make this mashup with my music.

For this video, I grabbed some rendered animations from Sheep Packs 3 & 7 and dumped them into animoto.com, along with an extract from Live Online #24 – cool timing, since animoto.com has just added the video uploading feature in the last couple of weeks.

This mashup is similarly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 (Taiwan) license and you can download the original animoto renders here:

MLO24-ELECTRICSHEEP.mp4 [high resolution - 139MB]

MLO24-ELECTRICSHEEP_DVD.iso [image for burning a DVD - 322MB]

MLO24_ELECTRICSHEEP.3g2 [320*240 cellphone version - 17MB]

Emma & Yi Interview

moshang — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:56:46 +0000

Emma & Yi are from Australia and are taking part in the Taiwan Best Trip contest organized by the Taiwan Tourism Bureau. They wanted to focus their trip on music and dance around the island and I met them at a tea house in Taichung last Friday for a short interview. Unfortunately, they had some technical issues, so we re-did the interview via Skype. Want to help Em&Yi out? Vote for their Sounds of Taiwan trip at the website above.

Live @ The Wall – video

moshang — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:36:02 +0000

Here’s some video evidence of me performing at the launch in Taipei.

Machinima

moshang — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:17:29 +0000

I’ve just made a playlist of machinima(s) (what’s the plural?) of me performing in Second Life. Most recently SL resident Aiden Witrial has made a whole bunch of me at various shows. I want to thank Aiden and the other producers for taking the time to do this – it’s been a great help in getting word out about the tunes.

Get Comfortable – 10 song video playlist on YouTube

moshang — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:05:54 +0000

I’ve uploaded 9 new music videos to YouTube to make a complete 45 minute video set. I used to use these videos in the past as my backtrack and background visuals at live performances, but I think you’ll enjoy them as is.

The tracks in the playlist are:

Smoke (Chill Dynasty)
Comfort Zone (Chill Dynasty)
You Bowled Me Over (Made In Taiwan)
Dragonbeat (Made In Taiwan)
Waiting for the Bus (Made In Taiwan)
Gentle Beauty (Chill Dynasty)
Kurubi (Unreleased)
And She Swung (Chill Dynasty
Soli (Chill Dynasty)
Djagbe (Unreleased)