If you’re a DJ, wannabe beat-making producer or other brand of untalented hipster not erudite enough to play a real instrument like banjo or spoons, the Kaossilator is for you. But what if you’re a snobby, woodshedding talent freak, learned musician or Worthless-Music-Degree-holding alumnus? Fear not, purveyor of the Phrygian scale! The Kaossilator is also for thee...
Montreal-area composer and percussion-loop-meister Tim Rideout has been working feverishly with Hollywood scoring genius and former McGill drinking buddy Michael Picton on the music for SciFi’s remake of the classic series.
With Rideout in the production chair, this eleventh release promises to take Canada’s premier indy-folk-pop-queer-activist-road warrior in a completely new direction.
In my DJ-induced post-purchase euphoria, I started researching this little gem of a micro-synth. I stumbled across many interesting articles and content relating to the amazing Korg Kaossilator and thought I’d share with the class.
Watch and listen as Tim creates electronic music pieces live, on-the-spot, using various improvisational techniques on the Korg Kaossilator. This unique instrument is an iPod-sized synthesizer that fits in your back pocket, is played with one finger, has no standard keyboard and sounds un-freaking believable.
“...being at the end of my creative rope, I did what any self-absorbed, anal-retentive corporate yes-man musician about to commit professional suicide would do: I sang.”
An R&B CD, five years in the making, that has an Irish ballad on it? What the hell was I thinking?
