A walk down memory lane aided by Usine...

[bsork]

I've been fiddling around with Usine for several years now, but it wasn't until last week that I dragged the laptop onto a stage. I'm a true has-been; the concert was a reunion of my old band Holy Toy which debuted nearly 30 years ago, and the occasion was the release party for a book on the "post punk era" 1980-85 in Norway.

[shameless bragging]
By a strange coincident, it was also announced just the week before that our first LP Warszawa was voted no 20 in a poll amongst 100 Norwegian musicians of the best Norwegian records of all times. The Top 10 was announced today.
[/shameless bragging]

I used Usine with one big workspace with one conductor snapshot per song. I had created my own rhythm box to replace the (now disappeared) DR-55 Dr Rhythm we used way back when and to add extra percussion similar to what we added in studio. I also used samplers as a replacement for the tape machine(s) our sound guy used to operate. Usine also acted as a MIDI control station between my FC300 and Axiom 49 controllers, to my guitar rack (w/pre-amp, switcher and TC fireworx), and Reason for some extra samples and some synth stuff.

I must admit that I was nervous that the whole setup would go haywire, but no!

If anyone's curious, some videos with dubious sound quality and balance has been put up on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mVcAZt9ds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxH6oj0fOtE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB55D29khQg

(Well, ok, some quite dubious playing as well... We had problems with monitoring and the placement of the damn video screen made communication across the stage pretty bad.)

[nay-seven]

cool
first, congrats for you LP Bsork !
now, gone to check the videos ! and as you say, what a pity for sound quality...

[CleverConQueso]

Bsork-
Sounds great to me and as a fan of post punk, even better. Congrats on getting the band back together, as they say.
Let us know when you start touring and raking in the bucks.
-CCQ-

[bsork]

Let us know when you start touring and raking in the bucks.

Ironically, being an amateur for longer than I care to mention and doing my first real gig in 13-14 years, this was my best paid concert ever. Hopefully we'll be doing some more jobs next year, but not so sure that we'll get outside of Norway. Time will tell.

[grego mondo]

great, love it !!

[23fx23]

yeah love too, niice!!

[bsork]

Thanks for the nice responses, guys!

[tanabarbier]

I like it ! It's really cool ! Cheers !

[Floego]

That was great!

[GDLive]

Nice !

I like the de-structured like improvisation on top on structured basis