We had two P3s at Different Skies this year; mine and Jeff Kunzelman's. Both were running v3 and, in addition to his sequencing duties, Jeff got designated as master clock for the show, so he got to keep track of those songs needing clock and what BPM each was running. Worked like a charm. We got to demonstrate the P3 at our "educational" event, where the music class of the local high school comes out and gets a demo of gear, of our playing, and gets to come up on stage to ask questions of the musicians. We used the P3 to kick things off by <cue Paul Nagle idea> getting 4 of the kids (3 women and 1 guy) to come up on stage. I had each of them select 5 random notes across the keyboard each on a different track to get a basic cycling set of patterns going (I used appegiator entry, and each track was set to a different length, all FTS'ed to G Aeolian). Then Jeff, brought in a MachineDrum kick, then a bassline, then the whole stage joined in a jam. So the kids got to compose the piece and the rest of us improvised a piece around it. It was cool. I think the P3 figured prominently on 2 or 3 of the songs that made it to the concert (we did 26 songs altogether). And they were a nightly jam staple, helping get things kicked off or helping pulling chaos into order. We had a bunch of hand percussion players this year, which when layered over a nice P3 groove, was truly magical. -Jim -- Jim Combs Atlanta's Creative Loafing Best of 2005 & 2007 "Best Local Electronic Act" Buy my Sensitive Chaos "Leak" CD at http://cdbaby.com/sensitivechaos "I highly recommend Leak for its inventiveness, its beat-happy effervescence, and its thorough lack of pretension, not to mention it's just a flat out fun album from start to finish." - Bill Binkelman, New Age Reporter www.myspace.com/jimcombs www.sensitivechaos.com www.myspace.com/sensitivechaos
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Quick Different Skies - P3 update
2007-10-27 by Jim Combs
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