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.

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!

In anticipation of the release of the Further East album on the 26th, I’ve cobbled together a video for the deep house track “Inbetween”. It features public domain footage I found in the Prelinger Archives of sexy Shereé doing her original tiger dance. It’s fun!

Enjoy Live Online #87: Inbetween

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on November 21st, 2010.

Alternatively, listen to Live Online #87 via play.fm or mixcloud.com (128kbps mp3 – medium quality).

Download this mix for US$ 1.33 (256kbps mp3 – highest quality):

This mix is made available under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Taiwan (more details)

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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]

I wanted Jui-chuan’s lyrics to play the starring role in the video, so I “textified” CC licensed still images I found on flickr, with the help of visual keywords that Jui-chuan provided me with. I animated the images in AfterEffects, and mixed them with some blue-screen footage I shot with a Xacti CG65 camcorder. I drew some images with blue permament marker and Emily kindly wrote the traditional and simplified characters for me. To save time, I rendered some sections and backgrounds online with animoto.

There’s a link to watch the video in high quality on the song’s YouTube page. The video is also available on Vimeo and there’s a link to download the original 150MB .wmv-file.

Unfortunately I have no pics from when we recorded Chris Bailey’s guitar for Freedom Zen, but here are Chuang Tyng-Ruey’s photos from the recording session in Taipei where we recorded Jui-chuan’s vocals and Bobo on the drums.

My good friend Viba in Taipei just did this cool acoustic mix of my track Easy featuring Sonja V. Download it for free from the link below. And do remember to check out Viba’s music, too!

Easy (Viba Acoustic Mix)