{"id":42,"date":"2017-11-18T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/17.piksel.no\/?p=42"},"modified":"2017-11-13T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T09:48:30","slug":"amen-mother-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/17.piksel.no\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"AMEN $ Mother Function"},"content":{"rendered":"

21:00 @ Bergen Kj\u00f8tt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neil C Smith<\/p>\n

One sample, one function \u2013 a live-coded, single function demolition of the most ubiquitous sample in modern music. This new performance work is both an essay in conceptual minimalism and an attempt at filling the dance floor with the aid of one wavetable and a little maths.<\/p>\n

Entirely created within the context of a single, pure function running at audio rate, this performance starts with a sawtooth LFO reading from a wavetable filled with the Amen break. Through the course of the performance, the Amen break is gradually unmade into new rhythms, melodic and synthetic sounds. Working with a single sample at a time, eschewing recursion and randomness, provides a restrictive but rewarding creative challenge.<\/p>\n

The silent $ in the title (also used in the code), is in tribute to Gregory C. Coleman, the original drummer of the Amen break, who died homeless and broke.<\/p>\n

Previously performed at<\/p>\n

Audiograft, Oxford – March 2017
\nElectric Nights, Athens – April 2017
\nLPM, Radion, Amsterdam – May 2017<\/p>\n