The limit of the Limited Edition
Current mood: anxious

It's over...

The last Limited Edition Livewire AFG's were completed Sunday night.





This last batch is headed to Analogue Haven (US), MOOG Audio (CAN) and Schneiders Buero (DE)

next?:

Oct Frequensteiner
Oct Dual Bissell Generator
Oct "standard production" AFG
Nov Dalek Modulator
Nov Vulcan Modulator
Dec Dual Cyclotron
NAMM 2009 - X Mod (AFG Companion Module)
NAMM 2009 - Audio Compositor (AFG Companion Module)
NAMM 2009 - Flux Capacitor (AFG Companion Module)

[r]

ps. NIN on Friday...

Currently listening : The Slip By Nine Inch Nails Release date: 2008-07-22

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back with Livewire
Current mood: anxious

on July 18 I flew to CA for 10 days of action packed...

...module building

On July 27 - Livewire Electronics delivered 100+ AFG's (VCO with a wallet that says this on it)

As of today I currently have another 60, along with 90+ Frequensteiners waiting for assembly.

I guess this means I'm building for Livewire again : )

seriously...
I'm stepping into the production process. I'll be running Livewire from the rust belt until Mike returns.

[r]

Currently listening : Detrimentalist By Venetian Snares Release date: 2008-06-24

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the rtopia feed...
Current mood: busy
Category: Music

you can have my tracks dumped into your podcast software (ie. itunes) automatically by subscribing to my podcast:

http://www.monorocket.com/rtopiaradio.xml

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"resurrection on a rust belt"
Current mood: busy
Category: Music

new track

ambient...
ebow...
ARP odyssey...
Ableton Live...

the idea was to make each of the instruments sound like something it wasn't

the ebow'd guitar sounds like a synth
the ARP odyssey is all of the drum/rhythm

r

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not ready for bulletins....
Current mood: relaxed

so I'll blog instead.

I'm in the new place.
Just got back from vacation.
started working on "stuff"
can't call it "new stuff"
can't call it "good stuff"

it's been over 3 months since the last time I had everything within reach and switched on, which makes this is a whole new process for me all over again.

the odyssey and the modular's getting used a lot
most of my drums have been coming from my bent SR16 and samples recorded in in the basement (pics below).

I made an entire kit out of empty boxes left over from unpacking.
A little distortion and proximity effect from a D112 can do some really cool things.
(note: nothing was detuned or radically eq'd)

Once I get over being fascinated with "sounds" I hope tracks will actually follow.



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Currently listening : El Oso By Soul Coughing Release date: 29 September, 1998

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counting down
Current mood: busy
Category: Music

30 days until my last show in CA (for awhile).

Richie Mendez put together a Reckless Ways reunion show together at The Music Room in San Bernardino.

We should be going on kinda 9'ish.

Currently listening : Ten Years After By Tommy Keene Release date: 20 February, 1996

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last days...
Current mood: calm
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

18 years after rolling into town, with a band riding in a modified international harvester school bus...

...I'm rolling out and headed for the midwest

long story short: "yes - I'm out of mind, but that happened long before this decision, yes - it's worth it, yes - I'm sure"

there's plenty that I'll miss and very little that I won't miss (that's supposed to sound like a good thing)

just remember:

"no matter where you are - I'm always R"

- r

Currently listening : Low By David Bowie Release date: 28 September, 1999

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drums....
Current mood: blank
Category: Music

(from rtopia.net)

yeah - I'm back.
been doing a lot at the day job.

now that I'm relocating - I'm doing the "packing/trashing/finish what needs finishing" drill.

I just completed a series of faceplates for my Ken Stone drum module kits:

(pretty maids in a row)


(cynare deluxe - the lower 6 knobs are "shimmer controls)


(close up to show texturing on the metal - 220 grade sandpaper and an orbital sander)


(cynare standard - no shimmer controls)


(drum sim 1 - 2 808 style twin t circuits)


(drum sim 2 - same as the other one except this one goes a lot lower)


this is the patch bay for the tin man modular:

(step 1)


(close up to show the texturing on the metal - same as cynare face)


(installed)

Currently listening : Lodger By David Bowie Release date: 20 February, 2007

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rtopia live on KXLU 88.9 Los Angeles
Current mood: sick

Shameless plug to promote an appearance on "The Modern Age".

Listen on terrestrial radio at:
KXLU 88.9 FM Los Angeles
Wednesday 10/18 10p - 11p

Listen online at:
Live365

details:

this is not my show
I'll be accompanying my good friend Mike Brown of Livewire Electronics (builds modular synthesizer stuff)

We'll be running the output of this custom rig into Ableton Live and mixing the original output of Mike's performance with my "audio manipulations" of the original output.

Currently listening : Silent Shout By The Knife Release date: 25 July, 2006

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adventures in the obvious
Current mood: curt (because time is a factor)

.. You are the king of smooth -- enough said. Take the What Pulp Fiction Character Are You? quiz.

tell me something I don't know

Currently listening : Dust By Peter Murphy Release date: 23 April, 2002

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