Ascension Engine - Loop Bar Sat 26th Aug Day Event :)

Ascension Engine at Loop Bar 2011
Straight from the Rainbow Serpent Festival comes the Ascension Engine for an exclusive Melbourne event. Ascension Engine is an audio/visual cornucopia of meditative sound and vision from some of Australia's finest audiovisualist experimenters.
With the killer sound system and massive screen at Loop, sit back and connect with the universe that these visionary artists will weave for you.
Be prepared for sacred frequencies, audio reactive mandalas for meditation, binaural beats and alchemical transformations through sound and vision.
Ascension Engine comes alive from 2pm on Saturday 26th March.

Tickets on the door are $10 full or $5 conc.

Truant
Siilt
Grist
Electronic Shaman
Zen Paradox
Abre Ojos
Zero Point (SA)

new quartz pics

Set

The set went great. What a great environment to have my first set.
Thanks to Scott for doing all the hard work on the night

Next time i need to get some roadies to help me lug my heavy rig in. My lovely girlfriend helped but im not sure if she will ever put her hand up to do it again. The mixer case ended up being pretty heavy and awkward to move around.

Sound was recorded, ill try post it once i get a copy

Pre-trip studio sale

Impending international jaunt
Looking to decrease the amount of stuff to go into storage

Samson rubicon r8a $350 ( near mint )
Allen heath zed420 desk $800 ( near mint )
Lexicon mpx1 multi-effects $300 ( near mint )
Machinedrum mk2uw $1350 ( near mint, boxed )
Oto biscuit $500 (as new, w/box)
500w p/ channel amp $50 (worn but works)
505 $50

Electronics gear & diy synth stuff
Dc20mhz oscilloscope $50 (one channel glitchy)
Variable dc supply $50
Mb808 95% finished w/ undrilled hammond case $450
(unit working just needs case)
Boxotrix distortion compressor 90% finished $150
(distortions working, compressor + gates populated but untested - no panel stuff)

Possible trades
Adam a7
adam a5
zoom h4n
kodak zi8

Email coolhandluka@@gmail.com
All items located in melbourne
Shipping at your cost
Pick up prefered

Photos on request

Preparing for GIG @ Rainbow Serprent

So this is the gig. First ever live gig. Very exciting, kinda nerve racking. It has been a mammoth effort to get my modular ready for the road. I posted pictures of the new case i bought. Since that time i overcome issues with power supplies, racking and getting a few bugs fixed in a few modules. It has taken a lot of time but im happy to say (hopefully this doesnt jinx it) that my modular is ready.




And here it is.

Modules include:
>3 x Ian Fritz Teezer TZ Vco
>Source of Uncertainty (only FRV plugged in due to not having enough distro slots)
>Mankato Quadrature LFO / VCF
>Plague Bearer & 2 x Jurgen Haible Wavefolders (Yusynth pcb)
>Jurgen Haible Living Vco
>3 x MMM VCF
>4 x Low Pass GAtes

I built some stuff into the rack panels
>3 x mixer, 2 x mult (i know i use bananas but i dont have much clearance in the case)
>2 x slew, 4 x lfo, 4 x attenuator
>8 banana to 1/4inch converters

Additional Effects (racked & desktop)
>Lexicon PCM70
>Jurgen Haible Moog Resonator

I am sequencing some sections of my live set using silentway but most will be all modular. And ill be performing visuals using Quartz Composer




I have a few days now to work on some patches and arrangement and polish up what i have prepared for visuals. Here is a quick sample of what i am going to show.




Very exciting times. It also spells the end of my DIY synth building for a while. I plan on spending a year overseas soon so i need to save. I think i have accomplished a lot in the last few years and this gig will be the transition point from where i was being an electronics nerd to a performer. I am really happy that this moment has come.

upcoming gig + new case

I have my first gig using my modular. Super exciting. I just bought a portable case so i can take my modular out on the town. Check it out. It needs some modification so i can close it while still having my modules patched. It seems a bit flimsy when nothing is in it. I hope it feels a bit better when full.




I rearranged my studio to add it into the workflow



The cool thing about getting this case is 1. it fits my huge reverb tanks so i can finally finish my neural agoniser module. I hadnt worked too hard on finished that one as i couldnt think of a good way to mount the tanks in my other case. The second cool thing is i now have another 20U of space to fill :)

I haven't done any building in the last couple of months as all spare time was put into running a big rave. I have a few things i want to finish before this gig so i might try get motivated again. Weather is getting warn so it is harder and harder to think about doing electronics.

update --

sneak peak: formant processor

In the interest of recouping some money from some recent purchases im going to make a few effect boxes that hopefully will interest some people.
They will include a bunch of pcbs that i have lying around which don't fit into my modular.

The first is the formont processor based from the polymoog resonator pcb






Still sourcing the final parts but im mostly finished.
I just have a paper mock up on the box at the moment but i will get them printed up similar to the shulze phaser.