Blotch @ URspektacL.3

Short clip advertising our next gig
Using material of our latest photo session


photography: Christina Zajber

Pygmy Melodies reconstructed in Ableton Live

I imported a piece of Pygmy Song (the track `'Midnight Yelli Part 3' from the CD 'Baka Forest People' - it´s a great CD, buy it!) into ableton live to get a grip on the different melodies. I´m not sure if I got it right and of course the original sounds way better but for analytical purposes it´s quite helpful.

Learnig to loop: Sedna

Training my skills using ableton live´s looper on a version of 'Sedna'.

Rehearsing with ableton live´s looper-tool

I want to use the looper tool of ableton live on stage, so I need some practice and that is why you see me rehearsing 'Eka' (Ethno Kitsch Atmo) of the 'Fake african memories here. I am not satisfied with my ways of routing different channels to the looper, I hope I can find out a better way

Rehearsing

Blotchen with Dennis and Dora in Soest.

Blotch two-piece-band photos

Daniel Shechtman and his quasiperiodic crystals - should I omit a common cycle of different patterns in the next compositions? My fascination for the musical structures in central anfrican music as described by Simha Arom led me to the frequent use of polyrhythmic patterns in cyclic structures.

Blotch as a two-piece-band needed pictures, so we did a session, these are some favorites, without any editing.
Photography: Tina Zajber
Paintings: Agata Schubert
Skull necklace: Bernhard Thora
Flowers: shop around the corner

Disco Balls

My classic favourite frivolity during Blotch gigs. Usually I mess this up, fail to close the bra etc. but not this time...

At the moment I am thinking of enhancing the disco balls with midi controllers. Probably I will use distance and flexion sensors applied to gloves in combination with the disco balls. I still have to do more research on the musical possibilities of such a setup.