FILE *fp;

Last week I was invited to play at the FILE[1] festival launch party -
three days before the actual show! I was already looking forward for
the festival, specially for the FILE:Hipersônica[2] part, devoted to
experimental electronic music. Being invited to play (in fact, invited
by Nervoso to play our rock/electronic jam) was just the icing on the
cake.

This year Hipersônica brought some high-profile guys from across the
pond (Scanner[3], Daedalus[4]...) and some old friends (Esquadrão
Atari[5]) to play in Rio. The shows were excellent (aside from some
über post-modernist vanguard crap, but it's a matter of taste), but
this post is not about music per se; it's about the effects of cachaça.

While I was playing at the party, Renata[6] made friends with several
of the people displaying their projects in the festival, including a
certain guy called Noah Vawter - a.k.a. Shifty[7]. If you read Digg,
you probably came across his Ambient Addition[8] gadget, which
reprocesses ambient sound into music. We hung out all weekend and
ended in my homestudio playing with an out of tune SH-101, drum
triggers and Ableton Live. This is what came out about one hour later:

With Noah [9]
(FZero and Shifty| MP3 6.3Mb/VBR)

So, what does cachaça have to do with this? Why, without it we would
be minding the SH-101 drifting out of tune and the music would never
be done in one hour. Enjoy!


Links:

[1] http://www.file.org.br/
[2] http://www.hipersonica.org/
[3] http://www.scannerdot.com/
[4] http://www.myspace.com/daedelusdarling
[5] http://www.myspace.com/esquadraoatari
[6] http://renata.org/
[7] http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/
[8] http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/thesis/index.html
[9] http://www.geradorzero.com/mp3/g0_with_noah.mp3


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Fabio FZero
www.geradorzero.com