Due to technical issues, I couldn't get my Ableton Live to work on OBS/ twitch, so my set changed from field recordings to "dub-noise" at the very last minute. I usually attribute solo noise, drone, ambient, beat based performances to eXU-9. eXU-9 takes it's machine name from Exu, Papa Legba, Cybotron, Model 500, UR, X-101, X-102. Sound inspired by MF BASS, Wave form Transmissions I & III, Interstellar Space, Space is The Place, Pulse Demon, Butoh, Great Black Music and Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi Projects. It is both a machine and a hyper-sygil for liberation, disobedience, transformation and self-care/acceptance. It also gives me space to explore sound beyond logic and language. This set was improvised with real time frustration with my set up. In the end this was just me showing up, dealing with setbacks and performing anyway. I prefer listening to this set on headphones.
“Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you’re never quite on the beat. Sometimes you’re ahead and sometimes behind. Instead of the swift and imperceptible flowing of time, you are aware of its nodes, those points where time stands still or from which it leaps ahead. And you slip into the breaks and look around.” — Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
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