MUSIC MACHINES is gonna be drum machine heaven!

For more info take a look at the link below from the dudes at BlueVibe Studio's....sounds good!

Music Machines is gonna be drum machine heaven!

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AN ORGY....of drum machine's, obviously!

This happened in Vancouver at a community space called "Here on Earth" that was located in the industrial section of East Vancouver, and it was organized by several members of a now defunct electronic music collective called "The Black Hole Club". I found these and other pictures while I was cleaning up one of my hard drives, and I thought that I would upload it so I could share it on http://www.livepa.org/board and I didn't expect it to show up on Matrixsynth.com

We had somewhere around 30 machines show up and the idea was to get them all synced up to one clock source. Sort of a "hey, can we do this?" exercise more than a musical or recording one. It did work, but as you can imagine the sound was godawful and given the number of machines there obviously was a lot of slop in the timing. The hard part was actually getting a clock that each of the machines could recognize; there were a number of pre-MIDI boxes that had a wide variety of differing clock requirements so it was no small feat getting everything to talk to one another.

Before we did this, we had to define what a "drum machine" was, and we settled on a definition like "a stand alone hardware device that is capable of generating simultaneous and polyphonic sounds that are primarily percussive in nature and is capable of playing back those sounds in a preset or user-defined pattern, and is intended for use as a backing rhythm track source alone", or something to that effect which excluded MPC's, sequenced monosynths/modulars and workstations/grooveboxes.

Like I said before, it was really a try-it-and-see type thing, rather than a musical or recording exercise, as well as a great excuse to get together, geek out on drum machines and drink beer. Good times!

This was originally posted at our fave blog Matrixsynth.com

JARRE tours in May....deeeeeeeeeliceous!

The mighty Jean Michel jarre tours in May 2009, get yer tickets...like now!! its gonna be awesome! here's more info!

Jean Michel Jarre is back on tour with a brand new production !
"IN-DOORS" World Tour 2009-2010 will start in May in Europe and will continue around the world as of September 2009 (update will follow soon).

Box office info
04/05/09 - Debrecen, Hungary - Főnix Csarnok (Phoenix Hall)
Venue Capacity: 8,500 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: HUF
Tickets On Sale - http://www.ticketpro.hu/events.php?event=233
05/05/09 - Ostrava, Czech Republic - CEZ Arena
Venue Capacity: 12,000 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: CZK
Tickets On Sale http://www.ticketpro.cz/jnp/
06/05/09 - Wroclaw, Poland - Hala Stulecia (Centennial Hall)
Venue Capacity: 6,000 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: Zloty 175/195
Tickets On Sale - www.livenation.pl
08/05/09 - Aarhus, Denmark - Atletion - NRGi Arena
Venue Capacity: 4,740 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: Kr 595/695/795
Tickets On Sale - www.billetnet.dk
09/05/09 - Herning, Denmark - MCH Messecenter Herning
Venue Capacity: 5,200 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: Kr 550/750/775/975
Tickets On Sale - www.billetnet.dk
11/05/09 - Malmo, Sweden - Malmo Arena
Venue Capacity: 15,000 - Time: 19:30 - Tickets: SEK 470/570
Tickets On Sale - www.ticnet.se
12/05/09 - Goteborg, Sweden - Scandinavium
Venue Capacity: 14,000 - Time: 19:30 - Tickets: SEK 470/570
Tickets On Sale - www.ticnet.se
13/05/09 - Oslo, Norway - Oslo Spektrum
Venue Capacity: 9,700 - Time: 19:30 - Tickets: NOK 450/550
Tickets On Sale - www.billettservice.no
14/05/09 - Stockholm, Sweden - Hovet (The Court)
Venue Capacity: 9,800 - Time: 19:30 - Tickets: SEK 570/670
Tickets On Sale - www.ticnet.se
16/05/09 - Helsinki, Finland - Hartwall Areena (Helsinki Arena)
Venue Capacity: 12,000 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: € 68.70/73.70/78.70
Tickets On Sale - www.lippupalvelu.fi
20/05/09 - Glasgow, Scotland - SECC - Clyde Auditorium
Venue Capacity: 3,000 - Time: 19:00 - Tickets: £40/£50
Tickets On Sale - www.secctickets.com & www.seetickets.com
22/05/09 - London, England - Wembley Arena
Venue Capacity: 12,500 - Time: 19:00 - Tickets: £45
Tickets On Sale - www.ticketmaster.co.uk & www.seetickets.com
23/05/09 - Manchester, England - Manchester Evening News (MEN) Arena
Venue Capacity: 22,000 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: £43.50
Tickets On Sale - www.ticketmaster.co.uk
24/05/09 - Birmingham, England - National Indoor Arena (NIA)
Venue Capacity: 13,000 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: £43.50
Tickets On Sale - www.seetickets.com
26/05/09 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Heineken Music Hall
Venue Capacity: 5,500 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: € 59/64/69
Tickets On Sale - www.livenation.nl
27/05/09 - Brussels, Belgium - Vorst Nationaal (Forest National)
Venue Capacity: 7,000 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: € 50/55/60/65/75
Tickets On Sale - www.sherpa.be
30/05/09 - Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion
Venue Capacity: 13,000 - Time: 20:00 - Tickets: CHF 77/88/99/110/130
Tickets On Sale - www.hallenstadion.ch

originally posted at http://aerojarre.blogspot.com/