After some soldering sessions last week I’ve (half)finished my DIY midi controller. So far I’ve only fixed 8 controls, 8 more to fix yet. I bought the box and the buttons in Akihabara, the shopping area for electronic goods in Tokyo and I’m using the Doepfer’s Pocket Electronic which makes all this quite easy to build actually.
My dealer in Akihabara!
Just give an URL to the Glitch Browser and it will be corrupting all the images in the web page. The result might be interesting.
I’m going to build my own midi controller. I’ve got almost all the components, most of them in Akihabara. And I’m waiting for the Doepfer Pocket Electronic right now. I guess I’ll get it by next week.
I hope I’ll manage to make it.
I haven’t posted anything here for a while (I guess I’ve lost the few readers who were following) and I won’t be writing in the 2 coming weeks; tomorrow I’ll be flying to Japan and then staying in Kobe, as usual. I’ll also spend 5 days in Tokyo from 28. I checked the concerts scheduled for the 2 weeks both in Osaka/Kobe and Tokyo.
On 23rd I’ll attend concerts of Merzbow, Nobukazu Takemura, Pita, etc, at Sunsui, Osaka (my day of arrival, jet lag + noise might be tough…). And since I’m in Tokyo on 30th, I’ll definitely attend the event organized by mantle musics at loop-line.
A few venues which usually have a good experimental music program (among many others):
SuperDeluxe, Tokyo [http://www.super-deluxe.com]
loop-line, Tokyo [http://www.loop-line.jp]
Sunsui, Osaka [http://www.sunsui.net]
Bridge, Osaka [http://www.beyond-innocence.org currently down?]
A good source for japanese experimental music:
http://japanimprov.com
There was a documentary on TV5 this morning on Reno and Claire Marca. They live in Bretagne, Reno is an illustrator, Claire a writer and they have published beautiful trip books.
I like Reno’s drawings very much. The pictures below are taken from “Madagascar”, their book to be released next september.
