Puremagnetik hosts New York UG!

Antje · Post by **Antje** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:19 pm

Puremagnetik hosts New York Ableton Live User Group!

The April and May meetings of the New York Ableton Live User Group will be managed and hosted by Micah Frank, of Puremagnetik.

The April meeting will feature a performance and Q & A with Gregory Shiff, an original and dynamic experimentalist in electronic music. Shiff has recorded for a wide range of labels such as Persona, LoFi Stereo, and Bedrock. His live shows have rocked crowds across the globe, from Europe to Australia and the United States, infusing dance floors with "uplifting but resolutely underground techno" (DJ Mag). After an early interest in classical guitar and atonal orchestral music, Shiff s enthusiasm for electronic landscapes and pulsing rhythms led him to Berklee College of Music, where he studied synthesis and composed his early recordings. In 2007, Shiff began his own label "The Vacationist"(http://www.TheVacationist.net), focusing on larger scale projects in electronic music. The first of these, a four part concept series, is currently in progress. Part two, "The Ventriloquist & the Mime", is due for release at the end of May.

About Puremagnetik (http://www.puremagnetik.com)
Puremagnetik is a subscription download service that offers music producers, live performers and DJs an expanding catalog of innovative sounds and instrument presets. Puremagnetik designs customized sounds for music software and hardware developers and has gained noted popularity for its unique "Micropaks" for the Ableton Live platform. Each month Puremagnetik releases new Micropaks for subscriber download. Back issue Micropaks may be purchased individually from the Puremagnetik website. Please visit http://www.puremagnetik.com for more info.

When:
Friday, April 25, 7-9pm

Where:
Downsouth (Downstairs at Southpaw) (http://spsounds.com/downsouth.html)
125 Fifth Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn (http://spsounds.com/directions.html)

Please RSVP at [email protected]

micah frank · Post by **micah frank** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:24 pm

Looking forward to it!

For those that have never seen/heard Greg play, you're in for a treat!

eisnein · Post by **eisnein** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:07 pm

bump!

micah frank · Post by **micah frank** » Tue May 20, 2008 1:35 am

May's NYC User Group has been announced!

New York's Ableton Live User Group is meeting again in May. This month's soiree, at Dubspot, features
boombastic bass-blipping, live-looping, sonic vigilante Elijah B Torn.

The agenda for the evening is as follows:

1. Elijah B Torn artist profile

2. Elijah will play his set and discuss how he uses Live

3. Q&A with attendees about Elijah and Puremagnetik

Time and place:

Friday May 30th 7-9pm

Dubspot

348 West 14th Street bet 8th & 9th Avenues

New York, NY 10014

www.dubspot.com

1-877-382-7768

RSVP - [email protected]

eisnein · Post by **eisnein** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:07 pm

BUMP!!!!

im especially looking forward to the 01010001 & 01000001!!!!

01001011 01101001 01100011 01101011 01000001 01110011 01110011!!!

the0verclock · Post by **the0verclock** » Thu May 29, 2008 11:10 pm

bump-oh.
i hope yer bringing the light show, elijar. even when i listen to yer music at home now, i picture the light show in my head.

- b

micah frank · Post by **micah frank** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:41 pm

I just hope he brings the chicken nuggets.

I heard that he has a special chicken nugget with a MIDI port and a vacuum tube inside for a super fat analog sound.

eisnein · Post by **eisnein** » Fri May 30, 2008 3:06 pm

01000010 01110101 01101101 01110000

there will most definitely be lights, MIDI chicken nuggets. btw- those MIDI nuggets are perdue™ and are trans-fat free. (hey perdue™- endorsement?

) the tube right now is only a 12ax7 BUT we have been talking bout putting something bigger in there. maybe move to a cutlet size.

There shall also hopefully be many conspiracy theory discussions in the Q&A- topics to include the Federal Reserve's plot to create random MIDI glitches and the CIA's use of Rotary Encoders on their starwars-esque drones!

See you tonight!

the0verclock · Post by **the0verclock** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:03 pm

this just in - it was awesome. thanks everybody.

micah frank · Post by **micah frank** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:35 pm

no doubt. elijah kicked some serious arse!

eisnein · Post by **eisnein** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:01 pm

ah that was so much kickass fun! mega-thanks to Puremagnetik and Dubspot for hosting!! huge thanks to Ableton!!!

and an especially huge thanks to everyone who came out!