this take is recorded live while playing with dummy clips…the launchpad and more knobs assigned to different fx…
the only sound not coming from the original edit is the new (wicked) Tattoo drum machine by AudioDamage

a great post on I Downloader about the Death of Music :

Music is not dying. Music is thriving.

- There are more people playing more kinds of music now than there have ever been in the history of the planet.

- More new musical instruments have been created in the last 50 years than in the last 5 centuries.

-  More money is being spent on music – on concert tickets, ring tones, music lessons, instruments, performing rights, MP3 players, soundtracks, recordings, band merchandise, etc – than ever before.

- More people are listening to more music more often than ever before- in their cars, on their MP3 players, on their computers, in the supermarket, restaurants, gyms, on elevators and in hotel lobbies as well as live
performances, CDs and yes, even vinyl.

- There are more ways to make money from music now than ever before, and more possibilities for unprecedented access to existing and potential audiences.

read the full post here : http://i-downloader.blogspot.com/2009/10/death-of-death-of-music.html

web 2.0 suicide machine…kill all your social networks with just one click…ooohhh…

http://suicidemachine.org/

i don’t do videogames…unless I am very depressed (not very often)
but few months ago I actually bought Osmos (10$) because I was curious…and finally during this holydays i had time to play with it…and i really enjoyed it (even if i wasn’t depressed).
i think it is wicked, and more than anything else the idea behind it is really clever.
the soundtrack of the game is a beautiful (but a bit too classic sometime) ambient album including Biosphere and Gas between the others,
every level has different tracks
Osmos by Hemisphere Games got very good reviews all around and won few prizes…and i reckon are all well deserved…

i wish to work on a similar project in the future

software to dig more :
Ableton Live is a great tool, and Max4Live is very sexy…spanky….but expensive…(and the marketing of it starts to be a bit annoying).

instead I am very intrigued by a couple of softwares that are very cheap…real bargains considered the quality…I can buy both of them
and still I am saving some dosh to go out on NYE (instead of buying the spanky max4live).

Renoise
a mod tracker…works like the old digital sequencers of 25 years ago…no timeline, no clips, NUMBERS.
great for obscure techno…but actually you can do anything with it… only 49 euros !
watch what you can do with Renoise and a Launchpad

Click here to view the embedded video.

Reaper
a “normal” DAW (like Cubase, Logic)…but slimmer and smarter than those bloated whales…I love the GUI and more than anything I love their anti marketing campaign..

you can read on the website:

Honest Business Model
We offer a good product at a fair price.
We don’t spend money and effort on marketing, complicated piracy protection, or other things that do not directly improve REAPER and the user experience.
We think the good will generated by playing fair and being responsive to users is more valuable to our business than short-term profits.

No Intrusive Copy Protection
We believe that technological enforcement of copy protection is not in the best interest of our customers.

a full license cost 225$….BUT…if you are just playing with it and not macking any money…or even if your income from music is less than 20.000$ a year
(and I def make less than 20 grand a year from music), you can get the discounted license for 60$ !
(and anyway if you are a pirate you don’t need to crack it…but only deal with your karma).

on the top of that it works really well, has many plug ins included, and does internet streaming with Ninjam…and aldo distribute the cpu over your network…guck yeah
…it was about time… I am sold…actually…I am buying it.

he is one of the minds behind Ableton…and he does many workshops around the planet sharing his knowledge….and many other good things can be said about him…he is humble !

I met him at the Sonica festival 3 years ago where I had the honor to share the same stage (Deadbeat, Rhythm and Sound and Greg Hunter were there too)..that time he played in front of 30 ppl (maybe less)…while thousands where lobotomized on the main stage by some rubbish trance…but he delivered an amazing set…and he didn’t behave like a rockstar…even if many of the bloated rockstars (who were playing on the lobotomy (trance) stage) were actually using a software that he created…period again.

he just released Silence, a new album…(dunno where he finds the time to do music)…

I haven’t got it yet…and I am very curious.
I am very pleased to read that he also joined the movement to stop the Loudness War…and he didn’t use any compressors for this album…and no limiters during the mastering.
This is a link to a very interesting conversation about mastering between Robert and Rashad Becker, the guy who mastered it:
http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html
and it confirms what I wrote in the post “Mastering is killing music” more than 3 months ago…cheers.

the ambient mini album by Moreno is out…you can download it, buy it, donate for it…@ Bakshish Music website :

http://bakshish.me/wp/download/ambient-manifold

I mastered it and produced the first track “moded”…I think is good.

today I finish my 44th round around the sun…it hasn’t been boring so far.

Master Margherita : Prova Sonido

sometime all is crumbling…and the only thing left to do is to cry for help.
my life in the bush of ghosts has been the seminal album that probably  inspired me the most.
I did this remix a couple of years ago…using the stems on their website (thanks Brian, thanks David)….but I never uploaded it to them since is too long…(one day I will do a shorter edit)
Brian Eno and David Byrne : Help me somebody (mauxuam remix)

http://www.wordle.net

http://tagul.com/

Dubfix sent me this one last week

started to test the beta of Max for Live…
few crashes…but…wow…this is just the beginning…and maybe the end.

this is an unofficial alternative site full of good infos : http://max4live.info/

(still…I like Plogue Bidule more than Max…and Pure Data is probably the real thing)

Sacred Dub : Transmission 039

tracklist

it is absolutely hilarious to see the reactions of this buba buba bloated rotten psy(cotic)superstars in front of the tzunami that is flooding….
and anyway…piracy or not piracy (this is soo boring)…soon legal free music will be beating the copyrighted one for numbers of releases and even quality…oh yes…wait and see…

where the soul is alive.

music is again free from any constrictions and physical ownership…we can only let it flow…enjoy the ride…sing this song. (in the toilet)

the tonematrix

this is a long story…to cut it short…in Australia there are ridicolous download limits on your internet connection..and sometime they count your uploads too…

and I wasn’t aware of that at the beginning….so during the Cloudcycle production process I ended up with this bill (while I was house sitting for Ziv) : 22.333 $ (150$ for any extra giga over 60….can you believe it ???)

after some understandable panic…and many worries…finally yesterday the company cancel it

(thank for having mercy of us…telstra)…..pfffffff

this is why today I took off all my music from last.fm
(at least the one I could access…because some of the music on my name is managed by somebody elses…interchill maybe ?)

and I think that all of us microscopic music makers should do the same…and leave them with only rotten mainstream.

cheers

so….blah blah blah…you can read about who and what is HoeHLE here :
http://bakshish.me/wp/music/hoehle
you can download the music here :
http://bakshish.me/wp/download/hoehle-download

and you can taste it here :

I hope that you will like it.

this are the albums I am enjoying more in the last months…really loving it…

Badun : Last night sleep
released by my friends of Mindwaves.

I will not go long here telling you who are they and all the rest of the blah blah….just go on thier cute website and dig it by yourself:

http://badun.dk/

the other album is not so recent but I actually found it recently:

Fontanelle: Style Drift
released by Kranky in 2002

absolutely lovely…and alive…shame they didn’t release anything after that.

for those who like shopping, you can now buy our music in exclusive from only 2 specialized shops :

cloudcycle on addictech

cloudcycle on digital tunes

Cloudcycle is a bizarre experiment conceived by Greg Hunter (Dubsahara, Subsurfing, Alien Soap Opera, who also worked on some seminal albums of electronic music, amongst others with Orb, Killing Joke, Steve Levine, Matrix movie soundtrack) and mauxuam (unpredictable manouvrer who last year released his album Viceversa and has been turning knobs and tweaking sounds for over twenty years on many diverse and obscure projects).
two experienced space navigators who lost their way home, met eachother along the digital pipeline and forgot where they were heading to…and why. Master Margherita met them along the way and while trying to help them find a direction, got himself lost too…

Cloudcycle started one mad night 3 years ago and it is still morphing into new shapes…greg and maux have been shifting and drifting…working online at huge distance of time and space (greg in uk and egypt, maux in oz)…connected by the magic of wand skype….with no timeline, no deadline and no end.
Without knowing what to do and simply bored with the old music biz paradigma, they started to release this music as an audioblog on the net uploading the tracks as soon they finished them….including alternative mixes and demos and the samples to do your own remix.

Deep and heavy beats and out of nowhere melodies, slow techno and endless ambient drones….familiar with every genre without belonging to any trend, cloudcycle is a bunch of trip-a-delic dub-minimal-glitch-world-oddness, a spicy and scented delight for the senses…disappearing before you get hold of it…dissolving without trace…fractalized in micromacro syncronicities.
Richness to resonance, truth to tonality, esoteric emotions and subtle harmonies… a spontaneous outpouring from our side to the world, a musical invitation to experience and join for the pure reason of sharing.

Cloudcycle doesn’t sound loud as fuck…it’s not in your face…we praise the dynamic range…music is the silence between the sounds….pleasure relished in the unsquashed transients…we don’t fight in the loudness war.

in the moment we become so involved in the experience, we lose track of ourself, lose track of time, lose track of our identity…we become clouds.

WP-Cumulus – a cloud of tags with an amazing flash animation spinning the words around
(you see it on the right in this page)

WP pic-lens – cooliris for wordpress galleries…the wall of images..

WPtouch iPhone Theme – automatically select a slimmer theme for those browsing the blog on the iPhone

Viper’s Video Quicktags – easy way to embedd videos from youtube, vimeo and all of the others (pretty much).

Sociable – to be network friendly

SoundCloud Shortcode – off course…to easy embedd sets and tracks from soundcloud

Blubrry PowerPress – plug in to podcast…very good !

Audio player – yep…the audio player I use in this blog.

hyperwords : a must have…to search the web behind and after google…translate, convert currency and any sort of measure just clicking on a word….a great tool to crawl around.

cooliris : the coolest…no words

lastpass : finally stop to remember all the log in passwords to different websites and shops and registration forms…so useful.

down them all : download manager…no need to explain I guess.

speed dial : the famous multi panel page with the favourites

snipi : great to prepare galleries (for Word Press) with pictures found on the web

xmarks : syncronize your bookmarks with all your computers from the web

all in one side bar : the famous sidebar

I don’t need to write the link for adblock, do I ?

Click here to view the embedded video.

http://soundcloud.com/mauxuam

cloudcycle crashed
and since the php database is lost…also all the posts are lost…(apart of the media files…included the audio)./.

after 24h of php pain cloudcycle is back online (tnx 2 moreno for the help)

there is an hilarious thread on the ableton forum about the akai APC40….the dream controller…

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=116396

(you need to login to see the amazing pictures)

it was also my first wireless set
i finally got a wii (just the controller) yesterday for 68 australian dollars
and using the magic osculator i hooked it to ableton…and had lots of fun with it
(tnx to kriss for raving about this)
i even gave it to some friends between the audience to play with…and they also had lots of fun
weeekeeed stuff
soon i will post a simple tutorial about using the wii and the iphone as remote controllers for ableton (or tracktor, or whatever midi).

nebula is up…

cloudcycle.net

we couldn’t decide what is it…an album…or a band…
so..for now it’s a website…a simple audioblog….

cloudcycle.net

the first 3 tracks  are already available for free download

mr David Abravanel recently wrote a very intellectual review of my album “viceversa” on the respected milkfactory blog/magazine…

i didn’t like it…neither kris and greg…so we did a review of the review…and they didn’t like it…

the milfactory on viceversa

off course me and greg failed to meet all the deadlines (if there were any)…
…..and it’s taking longer than expected….
this are the working titles:

cloudcycle
cloudcycle.cumulus (mix by mauxuam)
cludcycle.cirrus (mix by greg hunter)
cloudcycle.nimbus (mix by mauxuam)
cloudcycle.stratus (mix by mauxuam)
cloudcycle.nebulosus (mix by greg hunter)
cloudcycle.morning glory (mix by mauxuam)
plus more….

Tank-fx

“Tank-FX is a non-virtual effect device. The reverb is generated by
a huge [11m] tank made of ferroconcrete. We put some mics and
speakers in it and connected them to a unix box, so everybody can
use it now from the internet. To try it out, just upload some
audio material. It will be processed in real-time”

it has been a while I wanted to do this…

so…here it is…free download of my album viceversa in mp3 @ 320 kpbs
(no need to waste time searching for the torrent)

the zip file contains also the artwork

download viceversa.zip

to download register here with your email address.

the lastest weapon from audio damage
amazing multi modulation filter gate..I am really having lots of fun with it
a must buy
(…yes…buy….49$ !!!)

bigseq2 product page

today has been released an amazing album…blissful music….
one of my favourites since many years….
music that really touched my soul…and got me out of dark places.
I consider myself really lucky…having his music with me all this time before it got finally released.
now is out…you can download it…and donate for it.
bless u greg

greg hunter / dubsahara – metasurfing

DONATE !

the other night me and greg tried all what we could find.
we had much frustration with plug ins like virtual glass and dmn (digital musicians net)…nice gui…video chat but….no sound and no sync.
(btw at that time me and greg were the only 2 users online on this planet..?.)
so…I managed to route ableton output into the skype input and viceversa using jack….but sound quality was crap…
finally kris come on skype…and decided to help us….we went on reaper…and ninjam…

kris setup the ninjam server on his machine in london…greg was in brighton….me at 11h fuse difference in the bush in australia….
and well…it did work !…amazingly also in sync (sometime)….ogg vorbis audio files….session save…oh yes…the outcome wasn’t any masterpiece….but…we were all very exited and happy…kris and greg ended up going to sleep at 7am…we will try again….

bottom line…ninjam is open source…reaper basic license is 50 USD…

“…unless you are 100 percent happy with your current MIDI + Audio sequencer, you’d be a fool not to give REAPER a try. ”

reaper
ninjam – novel intervallic network jamming architecture for music

Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:13 PM
Albums of the Year – 2008
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER here are some of the potential albums of the year

MGMT Oracular Spectacular Columbia JAN
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt 1 : 4th World War Motown FEB
Alio Die Aura Seminalis Hic Sunt Leones MAR
Quiet Village Silent Movie k7! APR
IG Culture Zen Badism Freedom School JP APR
Gel Sol Iz Upstairs/Psychonavigation APR
Kettel Myam James Sending Orbs APR
Ciaran Byrne Nine Lives Causeway Psychonavigation MAY
Mauxuam Viceversa Interchill MAY
2000 Black A New Set A Rockers Third Ear JP JUN
Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust XL Records JUN
Various Here Comes Treble Treble O JUL
Animat Earplay Big Chill AUG
Lindstrom Where You Go I Go There Too Smalltown Supersound AUG
Carlos Nino Whats The Science? Elevation Instrumentals Kindred Spirits AUG
Digitonal Save Your Light for Darker Days Just Music SEP
Recloose – Perfect Timing Sonar Kollektiv SEP
Jazzanova Of All The Things Verve OCT
Helios Caesura Type Recordings NOV
Black Dog Radio Scarecrow Dust Science NOV

on myspace

what was I doing ?
blood of gaza

dark, slow and very heavy
available in mp3(320)-FLAC-WAV
creative commons license attribution-noncommercial-sharealike
so your are very welcome to copy, distribute and play with it.

buon ascolto

it’s really sad and frustrating
what is happening in gaza is pure horror
there is not much that can be done….they even ignore UN
israeli army as usual is strong only against people without any defense
we seriously need to start to boycott israel and all the businness related to it…
from jaffa fruits to waves plug ins…and isratrance too.
viva for the victims in gaza

so…a 2k8 (full of speed bumps) arrived to the end…

here we go into the next cycle

today israeli army entered gaza strip

can we do something about it ?

or we just sit and watch the show ?

btw….happy new year

“This is not the warm, fuzzy, uplifting Interchill you think you know. THIS release is all about the DOWNlift.
This is music to accompany the rush of adrenaline as you wait around a dark corner, about to beat someone’s ass.
Music to have in the background while you tell extravagant lies.
Music that doesn’t encourage a pleasant trip while under the influence of psychedelics.
Definitely NOT music to spin up for a sunrise party, unless you’re spinning in a dungeon with vampires.
This is music to kill robots to.”

more @ discogs

back online after long time on the road
summer at festivals and autumn in africa…till the desert.

I did few updates and “restyling” @ mauxuam.net and the setup of the cast page.

I like this, so does my dog…

different versions from the ones included in the album for free download

internet is shit

facebook…with friends like this…(from The Guardian)

“So by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls “nature”, and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer.” Tom Hodgkinson on The Guardian

and new drawings in the neetz gallery by anita gabrielli:
neetz gallery

viceversa digital cover

Dreamcreation – summer issue 2008

Mauxuam – Viceversa [Interchill]
Mauxuam, Maurizio or Mau, whatever you call him will not change the effect his music has on you. His granular modulated music is dipped in wild apple juice and left to oscillate in the wind. Each time you look at these vibrating soundscapes they become more involved and the textures transform continually. Mauxuam’s album is an ever evolving teapot, refilling itself with fresh herbs on every track whilst still retaining the tangy flavours of the previous ones. Kick back, enjoy and be curious.

Pieman

Does your name mean anything ?

mauxuam is a palindrome – a word from the language spoken on the planet Ummo where I lived for a few years.
Everybody is telepathic so they speak using words very difficult to pronounce and without meaning to make jokes and laugh at the sound of it.

tell us about your musical history.

I started to do music a long time ago. In 1989 I founded the Lost Legion Alien Collective which had many different releases throughout the 90s in europe and america. One of our creatures was Ohmega Tribe, an ambient trance project that released an album in 1995 for Silent records – a seminal ambient label from SF – as well as many tracks on compilations. Our live band was Technogod, kind of a industrial hiphop crossover. We did 3 albums and a few european tours as the supporting act for Meat Beat Manifesto, Young Gods and Consolidated. We split in 1997 and I continued for a few years as a producer in the italian music industry doing remixes, productions and soundtracks for adverts. I got so disgusted by that commercial filth that I dropped out, sold all my equipment and I went traveling without a fixed base for many years. I only started to write some music again 4 years ago as an hobby – this time as a professional amateur.

Your music has a really spacey and psychedelic flavour to it, what’s influenced its creation ?

do you think so ? I guess that my experiences with psychoactive substances has something to do with it…but also the reality show, the apocalypse approaching, the human ordeals, the weather, nature, the universal spirit, my demons, my lovers.
Music is out there, I grab it, channel it, mix it…usually at late night.
Very often the tunes are taking control and they start to evolve by themselves, they have their own life.

When it came to writing an entire album, how did you decide to approach it ?

I decided to re open, remix and deconstrukt my tunes with the intention to output a sound, fresh and coherent in time – in the now. My goal was to break through the parameters of the psychilldub scene, to explore new territories, take some risks, to surprise myself and to be curious again. I locked myself in somewhere desolate, most of the time without even internet and did a disciplined baba life for a few months. I let myself go mad with it.

Please tell us about a couple of your favourite tracks and why they are your favourite

my favourite tracks ever ?
Future days by Can (1972) – a seminal tune that has elements of much of the music nowadays.
Can’s music was truly psychedelic and experimental, endless tunes that you can drift away on.

Shakara by Fela Kuti – trances me out everytime, I can’t stay still, fu#*ing hell, I HAVE TO DANCE.

You also are a visual artist, do you work as a painter or only with moving electronic visuals, how long have you been doing this and what do your images try and convey ?

I am honestly very bad at painting and drawing.
I only play with software and I don’t really see myself as an artist but more as a navigator. I started to play with visuals during my 7 year break from music, it was refreshing to work on animations and graphics. my images are not trying to convey anything really, they are mainly abstract canvas where you can actually see and project many things.

occupation 101

we did this video togheter in 2002 in the himalaya mountains in india.

Gordon did the holographic video…I did the editing/cutting/fx on the computer.

the soundtrack is mine, Wiggly Things (the glitchmix).

the voice sample is taken from a speech of Alan Watts and it is used by kind permission of Mike Watts

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