Update: Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens • Sad Lisa 2024-10-22

Recreated rhythm, percussion, then remixed.

A work in progress; adapting a keyboard-centric piece of music to guitar. The instrument is a partscaster with a custom hybrid MIDI Controller, Graphtech hexaphonic bridge saddles replacing the stock hex pickup of a Fishman TriplePlay.

Arturia MiniFUSE 2 interface, and using MuseScore Studio as a DAW, with natural electric guitar, acoustic guitar, using Arturia Pigments to create a pseudo-Acoustic Guitar synth and using Arturia Augmented STRINGS to create a finger plucked acoustic Bass sound.

The Misunderstood History of Alchemy

✨🌜Kaz Rowe🌛✨

We’ve all heard of alchemy in the realm of sorcery and the occult, but the true history is a different story. Come learn with me about the ancient history of this misunderstood science, and some myths we can debunk!

Edvard Grieg • Peer Gynt • DOA (Death of Åse)

A passion work written by the Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg, “Death of Åse” is the second piece in Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, heard in Act III of Peer Gynt.

In my rendition of the piece, I’ve replaced all parts with distorted, feedback electric guitars in combination with MIDI guitar controller voiced as cello and bass wavetable synthesizers.

The original MuseScore transcription I worked from was by the brilliant Dario Gadosa. I still have a lot of work planned for this, including a more nuanced percussion line and adding an uptempo recapitulation in the tradition of what are now called Jazz Funerals.

The Haunting World of Pre-Cinema Moving Images

✨🌜Kaz Rowe🌛✨

Before the invention of cinema, various moving image toys and tools thrilled and terrified spectators. From the camera obscura to the phantasmagorical magic lantern shows, come learn with me about pre-cinema!

Starting with JamOrigin MIDI Guitar 3 • Things you need to know

With our host, Thorleif “LoFiLeiF” Markula
This video is meant to serve as a starting point for anyone unfamiliar with the JamOrigin MIDI Guitar software in general, or the MIDI Guitar 3 software in particular. The first part of this series is intended to go into detail on topics like tracker settings, a (perceived) latency/tracking concept, and signal chain questions.

“You never change something by fighting the existing reality.
  To change something, build a new model that makes
  the existing model obsolete.”
  ― R. Buckminster Fuller

I am Muirén, and my specific focus with Spelkast Theater, is leveraging the potential of MIDI 2.0, to enable a flexible, highly adaptive cyber-physical framework for cooperative creation, community relationship management, and seamlessly immersive participatory performance.

Foundational specifications for MIDI 2.0 were released in February 2020, which allowed MIDI Association members, including Operating System companies, to start practical implementation of the MIDI 2.0 specification.

This is an extension of 🧙🏾‍♀️TınyMaker.Space™ Project, the organizing, evangelizing force, and funding source for my goal of establishing a permanent home and makerspace that is self-supporting through its own efforts, primarily through sales of my uniquely crafted, tangible fusions of art and tech, as well as performing arts.

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