Mark Mosher: Experimental Electronic Musician from Boulder, CO. Synthesis | Synthesist, Composer, Keyboardist, Performer

Recording of My Radio.Electro-Music.com Halloween 2011 Online Streaming Concert

Yesterday I performed a live set for for the Halloween 2011 Online Streaming Concert over at Radio.Electro-Music.com. This 29 minute recording (CC-BY-NC) is a high-fidelity stereo capture from the stream in it’s entirety so get those studio headphones out or play on kick ass system!

You can listen on the embedded player below, on SoundCloud or download the mp3. Pass it on :^)

MarkMosher: Live Halloween 2011 Radio.Electro-Music.com Concert by MarkMosher

Note that the intro was re-recorded later that day as I forgot to turn on the stream recorder till I was 45 seconds in – doh. The rest of the audio is from the actual stream with one edit to remove 30 seconds of dead air when I experienced a minor issue.

Set List:

1) "Welcome to the Inferno" Sound Design Cue from Inferno Haunted House (recording)
2) "Mad Carnival" Sound Design Cue from Inferno Haunted House (recording)
3) "Icy Caves" Sound Design Cue from Inferno Haunted House (recording)
4) "They Walk Among Us" from REBOOT (recording)
5) "I Can See Them" from the album I HEAR YOUR SIGNALS (performed live on Percussa AudioCubes)
6) "Before We Wake" from forthcoming album (performed ive on Theremin pitch-to-midi with AudioCube )
7) "Dark Signals" from I HEAR YOUR SIGNALS (performed live AudioCubes, keys, Theremin, Tenori-On)
8) "Celebration and Voices" from I HEAR YOUR SIGNALS (performed live on Launchpad grid)
9) "Infected" from REBOOT (recording)
10) "Intercept Transmission" structured improvisation (performed live on Launchpad grid)

Thanks

• Paul Harriman from Electro-Music who encouraged me to get involved with their online community and also pointed me in the right direction for tools in this regard. Paul you don’t know what you started – lol.
• Jack Hertz for organizing the concert, creating a cool poster, for helping me to test my rig and for taking the time to teach me how to manage connections and hand-offs to electro-music’s ports.
• Gregg Cannady who was kind enough to loan me a Theremin for the show as I broke mine just before the show (long story)

Studio Changes to Support Live Streaming of Audio and Video

This concert, and my audio/video broadcast from Boulder to the Pacific Northwest Synth Fest (talk and performance on Percussa AudioCubes) is the culmination of about 4 elapsed weeks of work to reorganize my studio space to accommodate this sort of performance. Part of that is investing the time to become very comfortable adding another layer of elements to manage while I perform live – so lots of rehearsal.

While this concert was audio only, checkout this sound check I broadcast live to USTREAM. Watch the embedded video below or watch the video on USTREAM. I really get the lights going at 3:16 :^) I plan on doing a lot more live online performances so if you want to get notified sign up for my newsletter. I’m thinking about doing some behind-the-scenes videos for those who “Join the Crowd”

Happy Halloween!

With all that I’ll just wish you a safe and happy Halloween!

Mark Mosher
Electronic/Experimental Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Synthesist | Composer | Keyboardist | Performer

Synth Geek Blog: http://modulatethis.com/
Artist Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com

Third Performance Added for This Weekend - Beaming Into Pacific Northwest Synth Fest

I’ve just added a third performance this weekend. I’ll be beaming into the Pacific Northewest Synth Fest in Seattle from Boulder Colorado. I’ll be telepresently performing and doing a talk on AudioCubes on October 29th from 1:00-1:30PST. I’ll also be generally floating around Max Headroom style on a laptop throughout the event so he can virtually mingle.

In this talk I’ll present an overview of the Percussa AudioCubes hardware, discuss mapping the AudioCubes to control Ableton Live and Virtual Synthesizers in real-time. I’ll also perform with the cubes, deconstruct a Live song, and discuss his free template for “9 Box Method for performance, improvisation, and spontaneous tribal jams with music, sound, and light” based on AudioCubes. Lastly, I will take questions via interactive video chat.

So if your in Seattle, come find the box I’ll be hosted out and say hi :^).

For more info see http://www.mostlymodular.com/, and the event page on Facebook.

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Official Web Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com
Listen/Download Albums: www.MarkMosherMusic.com/music.html

Mark Mosher Halloween 2011 Weekend Shows

I have two events coming up this Halloween weekend. First is an appearance with my old band the Head Full of Zombies on Saturday the 29th. Second is an online streaming concert of original electronic music on Electro-Music Radio on the 30th. Details below.

Radio.Electro-Music.Com Online Streaming Halloween Concert October 30th at 19:00 GMT (Noon Mountain, 2PM EST)

Radio.Electro-Music.com is hosting an online streaming Halloween on October 30th. The concert stats at 15:00 GMT and goes through 24:00 GMT with a different artist performing every 30 minutes.

I’ll be performing at 19:00GMT which is noon Mountain Time and 2PM EST. You can tune into the stream from just about any type of computer or mobile device. Simply click here to listen to the stream at the appropriate time. You can also visit http://radio.electro-music.com for more options. There is a companion Chat Room here.

I'm planning on playing both recorded and live renditions of creepier tracks from my original albums (including at least one song from the next album that has never been played live before), improvisations from the "dark side", and a few sound cues from a haunted house I did the sound design for.

I look forward to connecting with you online :^). Make sure you tell your friends.

Guest Appearance with Head Full of Zombies on Saturday Oct. 29th in Colorado Springs

Those of you who know me as an experimental instrumental electronic musician may not know that I played in the alt-rock band the for 13 years. I retired in 2003 after playing hundreds of shows.

The band continued on after I left and now after over 22 years has decided to call it quits. They are doing one final HALLOWEEN BASH Friday and Saturday October 28th & 29th at the Ritz Grill in Colorado Springs. Shows start at 9:30.

I’m dropping by Saturday night to catch up with old friends and fans and will sit in to sing a song.

Checkout their Facebook page for more details.

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Official Web Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com
Listen/Download Albums: www.MarkMosherMusic.com/music.html

Quote in Dave Linabury Post - "The Future of Music is Visual"

I’m quoted in a recent post by social media guru and electronic musician Dave Linabury :^). Click here to read the post. While you are at it, checkout Dave’s other blog http://www.davezilla.com/.

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Official Web Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com
Listen/Download Albums: www.MarkMosherMusic.com/music.html

Studio Redesign Underway + First Experiments with Live Streaming Performances

I’ve been rearranging things in my studio so I can have both my laptop-based visual controllerism rig (the one I use to perform my albums live) and my hardware synth rig (the one I use for jams and long-form improvization) accessible at the same time. I’m setting it up in such a way so it’s easier to cross pollinate between rigs as well. I’m about half-way through the redesign and thought I’d share a few pics. In the shot above, I’m playing the grid controller the Tenori-On and the white Waldorf Blofled synth just barely in the photo.

Yes that's my original vinyl copy of DEVO New Traditionalists enshrined on my wall!

Bathed in magical blue light :^)

One of the other reasons I’m redesigning the studio is to better accommodate live streaming performances via USTREAM and an Electro-Music Radio. Earlier this week I did a brief test on USTREAM. You can see it my USTREAM page, or watch the YouTube version below (watch embedded video).

In the video I'm working on set of performances patches for my UltraNova synthesizer (the blue one on top) that lets me not only use it as a synth but also process all the other instruments in real-time. This is an early experiment where I'm using Theremin and Blofeld synth as audio sources for UltraNova Synth and FX. Tenori-On grid is triggering notes on UltraNova. UltraNova is acting as a mixer and the sound card and is actually streaming audio directly to USTREAM via USB. Wow that was geeky – lol – but you get the idea.

Watch this space for announcements on other streaming experiments and live concert broadcasts.

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Official Web Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com
Listen/Download Albums: www.MarkMosherMusic.com/music.html