At the Dubspot Ableton Workshop July 29th 2011. Photos by Sarah White.
Rux (Rui Pereira) has done live visuals for SNS shows in Istanbul and Berlin (2010), and now he’s made us a video for “Grace” from Yesterday’s Machine. Watch fullscreen HD. Album to be released August 2nd, 2011!
We’ll be giving a workshop on how we use Ableton for production and live performance on July 29th at Dubspot. If you can’t make it in person, it will be streamed live from the Dubspot website. To get an idea of how we use Ableton you can download our Saturn Never Sleeps Elements Live Pack here. Also, we’ll be performing the next night (Saturday, July 30th) at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn with Teebs, Taylor McFerrin, and Suzi Analogue at the Alpha Pup party.
King Britt & Rucyl (Saturn Never Sleeps) – Ableton Workshop
Friday, July 29th at Dubspot, NYC
6:30 – 8:00pm
blog.dubspot.com/dubspot-workshops-july
Philadelphia DJ, producer, and remixer King Britt will be touching down at Dubspot for a workshop with singer/collaborator Rucyl (roo-SILL) Mills. The two will share insights into their recording process for their debut album Yesterday’s Machine, out on their own SNS imprint in July. The bulk of the record was constructed in a live, improvised, one-take fashion, combining the duo’s intuitional musical sense. The two point to the work of avant-garde jazz revolutionary Sun-Ra as a major source of inspiration, drawing from his value in art’s of-the-moment process. Read more about King Britt’s history, as well as what Rucyl calls, “the Chakakhantroller,” a MIDI controller that she wears on her body, over on the Saturn Never Sleeps website.
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Footage from the Saturn Never Sleeps Live Experiment (June 2011) featuring Ryat. Photos / Video by Michael Beon.
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Children at Midnight (Saturn Never Sleeps Remix) by Shigeto
Remix and additional production by Saturn Never Sleeps
Vocal processing/performance: Rucyl
Programming, keyboards and mixing: King Britt
Additional baby sounds: Ajani Blakey
Label: Ghostly International
Saturn Never Sleeps + Onyx + Dave Manley (by Saturn Never Sleeps)
Onyx Ashanti warming up at soundcheck & performance snippet of the ensuing improv session at the May 2011 edition of the Saturn Never Sleeps Monthly Live experiment at Silk City, Philadelphia. Sorry for the buzzy sound the low end was bangin :) Filmed by Michael Beon.
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