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Concert! Deep Sky
Sep. 27th, 2003 07:54 pmWell, I went to a club here called Mythos, and saw a band called Deepsky. If you'ver heard the "Flowers become Screens" remix of Delierium, they you might already have heard Deepsky. There original work is truly wonderful, esp. live, except when Windows XP crashes, and they have to reboot the system...and the crowd got the Windows Startup Sounds at a 100 decibles! Other than that flub, it show went on exceedingly well.
The band is a big fan of Korg synths, having a Triton Workstation, one unindentified Korg, and a Korg Prophecy. Other equipment included a Toshiba laptop with a USB soundcard hooked up running, I think, Cubase. The "soundcard" was really more of a box, and had MIDI in and out. The final piece of MIDI equipment was a Roland Octopad, which the "drummer" beat the heck out of during the concert. They had a big Mackie soundboard, and two small, cymbols, miked, rounding out their equipment that I could see.
The prophacy was used mostly as a controller, and a lead instrument. I will have to listen to one again, but from what I can tell, the sounds out of it didn't sound as robust as a real Prophet 5....but then again, it could have been the mix.
Musically, it was a wonderful concert....if you like techno. And it was different in that it was more about making dancable music than simply music, which means that all the songs had a strong, driving beat. It certainly flavours the music. And as we were so close to the stage, we hear mostly through the monitors, so the sound was not the best...but it was pretty good! And what was also interesting, they were running stereo. Most bands in smaller venues run mono for more power...when you run stereo, you need more power for the same level of sound. But the club had power to spare!
There was a wide cross-section of "rave" subculture there...Jocks, cross-dressers, people with glowsticks, guys wearing just pants with lots of beads around their neck, chicks in wide bottom pants, at least one person sucking on a pacifier, people with green laser pointers (which show up in the fog really well, compared to the red ones), some great dancers, and one person in Fur suite!
Well, I'm tired, so I will wrap this up, and may post more about it later...
kallisti
The band is a big fan of Korg synths, having a Triton Workstation, one unindentified Korg, and a Korg Prophecy. Other equipment included a Toshiba laptop with a USB soundcard hooked up running, I think, Cubase. The "soundcard" was really more of a box, and had MIDI in and out. The final piece of MIDI equipment was a Roland Octopad, which the "drummer" beat the heck out of during the concert. They had a big Mackie soundboard, and two small, cymbols, miked, rounding out their equipment that I could see.
The prophacy was used mostly as a controller, and a lead instrument. I will have to listen to one again, but from what I can tell, the sounds out of it didn't sound as robust as a real Prophet 5....but then again, it could have been the mix.
Musically, it was a wonderful concert....if you like techno. And it was different in that it was more about making dancable music than simply music, which means that all the songs had a strong, driving beat. It certainly flavours the music. And as we were so close to the stage, we hear mostly through the monitors, so the sound was not the best...but it was pretty good! And what was also interesting, they were running stereo. Most bands in smaller venues run mono for more power...when you run stereo, you need more power for the same level of sound. But the club had power to spare!
There was a wide cross-section of "rave" subculture there...Jocks, cross-dressers, people with glowsticks, guys wearing just pants with lots of beads around their neck, chicks in wide bottom pants, at least one person sucking on a pacifier, people with green laser pointers (which show up in the fog really well, compared to the red ones), some great dancers, and one person in Fur suite!
Well, I'm tired, so I will wrap this up, and may post more about it later...
kallisti
