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..love your machines.

This is something special for all the people who supported me over the years. This is the liveset i played in Berlin on the 12th of April this year and its not just only my tech music – this also includes the stunning live visuals of uli sigg who made them live to my set. As always with live recordings the audio is not the best but at least it soundz real rough undergroundish The whole gig was played with Natives amazing Maschine and Ableton Live 8. Shoutz to Dr. Walker, Jammin Unit, Native Instruments, RRKS and Oedla the queen of Acid

videoart “Berlin” metrozubdivision, caracas venezuela dirigido por maikoru

New film starring Ableton Live! How many music software products can claim to be filmstars? As far as we know, only one: Ableton Live. A new film, “Berlin Calling”, not only features some outrageously prominent onscreen footage but also stars renowned DJ and long-time Live user Paul Kalkbrenner in the leading role. A big thank you to Paul and the film’s director, Hannes Stöhr, for giving us such wonderful publicity. The plot goes something like this: Berlin electronic music composer Martin (Paul Kalkbrenner), known as DJ Ickarus, is touring with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde (Rita Lengyel) from club to club around the globe and is about to release his biggest album to date. All of his plans are thrown out of kilter, however, after Ickarus is submitted to a psychiatric clinic high on drugs after a gig. Go and see the film to discover what happens next (hint: witness the therapeutic powers of Ableton Live!) “Berlin Calling” opens in Germany on October 2 and is expected to be released internationally soon afterwards. More information here: www.berlin-calling.de

Forgive some seemingly train-of-thought connections between topics, but today is what I’d call a Nexus of Goodness while I’m traveling through Berlin.

1. Meetup tonight, starting at 7p. Tonight, if you’re in the Berlin area, we’re doing a little, informal meetup to get to know each other and talk Web tools for music and musical goodness in general. Come, say hi to me and other CDM readers and the SoundCloud developer and user communities, and hear some great music. (See #3) Rooftop plans are off given the chance of rain, but in the safety of a good bar, we’re set.

Short notice, but an utterly informal event for our friends. Meet at –
systM / gallery bar | torstrasse 68 | 10119 Berlin [map]
– at 7 pm. Event details; the series sounds great to me, with some ideas we need to import to New York.

2. Web APIs. Whether you’re in Berlin or not, you might want to check out some slides from Henrik Lenberg. Presenting (as I was) to the Barcamp portion of Berlin’s Droidcon, Henrik illustrated why music apps are so important, what the SoundCloud API can provide to those interested in building new music sharing powers into their sites and software, and what this means for the Android platform (and others, as well). Slides are below; there’s something oddly zen-like and enjoyable to me about looking through slides minus the actual presentation, but I think they’ll make sense to you, too.

For more on these tools:
http://soundcloud.com/developers

Let me know if you have an idea for how they could be used on CDM. And for still more Web musical API goodness, great things happening at:
http://developer.echonest.com/; more on that soon.

3. Wonderful music. “japanese musician, composer, sound artist and producer Midori Hirano” is playing the event tonight. The space sounds lovely, and I’m excited to hear the music live – sample of this below. Well worth checking her out, whichever part of the world you call home. I’ll report back. Event details:

D/B PRESENTS SYSTM SESSIONS WITH MIDORI HIRANO LIVE, THURSDAY, 27.05.2010 IN BERLIN @ SYSTM GALERIE

feathers from nh on Vimeo.

We’re lucky to live in a world with lots of digital musical goodness in it; it’s always nice to get out from behind my desk to explore it.

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