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Learning Modular/Alias Zone September 2022 Newsletter: Live Performance Checklist

Learning Modular/Alias Zone September 2022 Newsletter: Live Performance Checklist

by Chris Meyer | Aug 31, 2022 | Newsletters | 0 comments

In theory, most of July and August has been my “break” from a busy performance schedule this year. In reality, during this time I’ve composed and recorded a new piece for the next installment of Ian Boddy’s Tone Science modular compilations, mixed my next full-length...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone September 2022 Newsletter: Live Performance Checklist

Learning Modular August 2022 Newsletter: Performing in Quad

by Chris Meyer | Aug 1, 2022 | Newsletters | 4 comments

The end of June/early July was a busy time, as I performed in quad at the Currents New Media Festival, and then played at SynthaCider in the Denver area. The main article this month will be some of what I learned about quad sound; I also edited together and posted a...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone September 2022 Newsletter: Live Performance Checklist

Learning Modular July 2022 Newsletter: Remembering Dave Smith

by Chris Meyer | Jun 28, 2022 | Newsletters | 1 comment

My first job in the music industry was working at Sequential Circuits in the 1980s. The recent passing of Sequential’s founder Dave Smith has me nostalgic for the opportunities I didn’t realize at the time he was giving me. I share some of those memories in this...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone September 2022 Newsletter: Live Performance Checklist

Learning Modular June 2022 Newsletter: Electronic Music Performance

by Chris Meyer | May 31, 2022 | Newsletters | 2 comments

​Last month I played at the Mountain Skies 2022 Electronic Music Festival, where over 20 acts performed. Watching them got me thinking a lot more about how we can make our performances more accessible to our audiences; that’s the subject of the main article this...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone September 2022 Newsletter: Live Performance Checklist

Learning Modular May 2022 Newsletter: Latency in Digital Modules

by Chris Meyer | Apr 30, 2022 | Newsletters | 1 comment

What happened to April?!? I swear we were only a couple of weeks into it, and suddenly it’s over. I guess the same thing could be said about the first third of this year – it seems like a lot has happened in the world a very short period of time. Let me catch a quick...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone September 2022 Newsletter: Live Performance Checklist

Learning Modular April 2022 Newsletter: Ambient Performance

by Chris Meyer | Mar 31, 2022 | Newsletters | 3 comments

It’s busy times here: Last month, I was one of a set of musicians who performed an ambient gig at Currents 826 gallery; that’s the subject of this month’s main article, as well as a few recent Patreon posts. On April 1 (no joke) I premiered a new performance for...
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