Comments on: All-Kaossilator Album Makes Korg King, Plus Not-Quite-All Monome Albums

By: someguy

someguy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:21:27 +0000

No the kaossilator album sucks ass. I could make a better one with my eyes closed…

Well mayb enot with my eyes closed
but seriously

that kaossilator albums blowwwws
i love my kaossilator

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Disquiet » Tangents / Macero, Mosquito, videos … — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:56:17 +0000

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By: { dr.xnlb: The Yellow Album }

{ dr.xnlb: The Yellow Album } — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:12:07 +0000

[...] If you, like me have been wanting to get and idea of what the kaossilator could do… here is the answer, Gary Kibler’s Yellow Album. You can hear the whole thing in the embedded player (after the jump). More on his reverb nation page and on CDM. [...]

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links for 2008-01-17 : W. Crouse — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:36:23 +0000

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By: GaryK

GaryK — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:51:48 +0000

My webhosting service will be shutting me down any second making even the redirect I had set up not work. For now those still interested, I’ve just uploaded this to ReverbNation:

http://www.reverbnation.com/136984?

Thanks again for all the great comments.

By: Phos...

Phos... — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:53:56 +0000

@GaryK:
Heh…I didn’t have that much gear back in ‘78, but I DID have the exact same haircut! :)

OK, let’s point the finger back at me, to be fair:

After getting my first rackmount guitar multieffects unit (ART SGX 2000) I got fired from the band I was in because I couldn’t just leave well enough alone. I was always bloody tweaking presets during rehearsals when I should have been writing, learning and just plain playing!

Still, I want MORE toys and tools. That’s why I keep reading and listening and experimenting. But, you wanna know what drives me nuts? Hearing national advert campaigns and top commercial radio hits where you can clearly hear long passages of unaltered OEM GarageBand loops. What are they paying those monkies!?!?

And speaking of gods and self-imposed limitations: Rundgren and the A Capella album. Nuff said.

By: Todd Fletcher

Todd Fletcher — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:17:58 +0000

Great picture GaryK! That was me too, just a few years later.

I get what Phos is talking about. I think it’s going to take a lot of time to work out what can be done with this plethora of options at our fingertips now. Look at the evolution of piano music from the early instruments through Liszt and Prokofiev and into jazz. We can only advance by little steps at a time, that’s the nature of experimentation. We can all indulge in a little gear lust but it has gotten out of hand I think. We have more than enough now to do great stuff, it’s up to us. As someone who has been working at electronic music for 25 years, there just can’t be any more excuses.

Well, at least there won’t be after I get a LinnDrumII…

By: GaryK

GaryK — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:06:51 +0000

Unfortunately I was just contacted by my host company and it looks like I may be shut down for a bit because of the increased traffic. The entire album will be up in the next 24 hours at music.download.com and I’ll let you know that link when I get it. Any other suggestions where I might post would be welcomed. Thanks again for all your comments and feedback. Cheers -G

By: GaryK

GaryK — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:20:01 +0000

@ Phos …
I could relate to much of what you were saying. We actually have more in common than you may have initially assumed. Talk about growing up in the 70s and Teac 3340s and Sony reel-to-reels
that was me (I still have the Teac btw) And those names you mentioned – Fripp,
Eno, Rundgren, Zappa – Gods to me – then and now.
Brian here may have summed up best how I feel about music as well – both serious and not. The Kaossilator I got for Christmas is the most fun musically I’ve had for many years and I certainly didn’t set out to make an artist statement but just share and celebrate that old fogeys like us are still around to discover and play with these high-tech marvels. Just think of what it would have taken to produce this music back in the day and now I can do it in the palm of my hand. It’s all about the democratization of music-making, which by definition is going to churn out alot of crap, much like the internet istself, but will also get more people in the game, and that cannot be a bad thing.
With this I tried my best to cover more than a couple of genres (and, yes, it does lend itself heavily to the beep-squawk variety) but if this “sampler demo” – and that’s what it really is – motivates anyone to pick up one of these and experience this joy with me, then I will have done what I really set out to do. I look forward to being shown up on all the subsequent Kaossillator albums.

By: Phos...

Phos... — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:01:17 +0000

Good point, and one I might have made if I wasn’t being so cerebral otherwise ;o).

Again, coming from a guitar background, and interested in all the possibilities offered by computerated assistanceâ€”I was really looking forward to trying out the Fender’s VG Strat. Then I discovered that they’ve limited it to just the onboard controls…NO 13 pin out.

WTF is that all about!? It’s compelling, but severely hobbled. I look forward to either v 2.0, or some well crafted hacks to open that sucker up to massive tweaking.