i had the pleasure of conducting a monome and reaktor workshop yesterday, but not to your usual tech nerds and electronica buffs. the crowd was mainly over 40’s japanese women who conduct a lovely english speaking class in fukai.

after disappointing by not being able to play waltzing matilda on the monome, i got serious and we all rocked the beats, big time. this is the thank you note i got after the session:

‘Hello,Kris.
Thank you for all your work for us.
We could know the new way of music closely.
The drum beat was so nice!’

Needless to say, it was a great day out.






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In other news, red plum and snow mixing is going well, and the harp is proving as troublesome as ever.

yes, still working on the red plum & snow album (nearly half way there!), plus throwing around some big ideas to set up an ‘against the industry’ label/ditsro/booking/archive concept. more news soon, as things fall into place… there could be a blastcorp retrospective in there somewhere too…

hi, i’ve been staring at protools for a month now. there’s some new blastcorp stuff here plus i’ve mixed 3 red plum & snow songs for the album. my head hurts. oh, and i have been outside, there’s a new video up in the japan adventures section to prove it.

well, it’s a funny world. i was right into making beats for a bit, but thats on the backburner temporarily as i’m busy mixing the debut album of my other band, red plum & snow. it’s an hours worth of sweet, soft songs and mountains of feedback! i’m also spending the mornings practicing harp and my spare time trying to work out how to get the extra $10,000 i need to buy my own harp…

check that mix!

hi, its april, its warmer, im still working away in my studio.
and ive been busy. look at all the practice i do!
what this has to do with making banging distorted dance music i dont really know.
its my softer side coming out…
oh, and the song on the video is an old glitchy thing i never got round to releasing…
ok, bye!

yep, the guitar is going in the back of the cupboard. i’m back to making beats. working on a 12 inch as we speak. more news soon. preview on my myspace if you are keen. still learning the harp. i think thats a seriously long term project though…

Hi, I’m still dilligently learning to play monome. I’ve also started taking harp lessons, so expect the next Blastcorp release to have a lot of (mangled) harp on it. There are some new videos up in the ‘japan adventures’ section if you want to know what it’s like here in Osaka. There’s also a new acoustic demo in the free stuff section. Enjoy.

Oh, this is a monome, by the the way. You should go check out the monome website, it rocks.

Oh, this is a harp.

hi, well ive settled in osaka and have finally gotten to work in my studio. a steep monome learning curve taking place, but the possibilities are quite exciting. ill keep you posted with little bits of audio as they spring up.
thats it for now
kris