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admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:32:41 +0000

The Monome Community Earthquake Disaster Emergency Remix Album

The Monome Community, an eclectic ensemble collective of electronic artists, have come together once more, in response to Tohoku Chiho Taiheiyo-oki Jishin, the Tohoku region Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake which rocked Honshu Island Japan only days ago. Using sampled, synthesized representations of seismic event data collected from the devastating earthquakes, participants created a wide variety of remixes and compositions as a cathartic response to the sheer power of the earth.

“We make music and raise awareness in the face of this tragedy because we are musicians and human beings, and in the face of such power, there is nothing that can be done from afar than to stand up and say ‘we are aware of your plight, we are with you in spirit, and you are not forgotten’.”

- leif, the lokey baselayer

This compilation of original music and sound has been generated in the days immediately following the staggering 9.0 earthquake which ravaged Japan, and is released in support of the ongoing rescue and reconstruction efforts ongoing today. Regardless of whether you enjoy or appreciate this music, please make a donation to an aid organization responding on the ground to this disaster.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/overview.cfm
www.jrc.or.jp/english/index.html
shelterbox.org
We suggest that Medecin Sans Frontieres ( Doctors Without Borders ), the Japanese Red Cross and Shelterbox are good choices for a monetary donation, as they are presently engaged on the ground with the recovery effort, but regardless, we ask that in whatever fashion, no matter where you are, you aid the positive recovery of the japanese people, the human race, and all of the earth from this tragic event.

Gridfest 2011 Santa Fe Kickstarter Campaign!

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:15:12 +0000

The monome collective is coming together from across the globe to meet and play in Santa Fe, and we need your help to make it happen. Lots of interesting swag, including a number of my prints (which ill post soon). Any little bit helps folks, much love…

…lo.

lokey_aCaseInPoint.mp3

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:05:47 +0000

Laying it down, a little something something dredged from the past. Life has certainly got on top of me these past few months, but there’s been great doings beneath the waves, expect more from your lokey dj in the coming months, once the plate is cleared. In the meantime, check this set. In the interest of authenticity, this hasn’t had much post modifications on the live recording; starts a little wonky but once its rolling its got some choice moments. Without further…

aCaseInPoint

haiti 2010: monome community charity album!

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:39:19 +0000

I’m happy to announce that the monome community of musicians and crazy coders have put their heads together and produced a charity album to help the haiti disaster response, and I’ve got a track up. It’s a dollar minimum donation, all proceeds go to Medecins San Frontieres to help with the truly unprecedented devastation presently upon Haiti. My thoughts and well wishes go out to a society that is in desperate need. Please help us spread the word and contribute whatever you can…

lokey_106bpm_junglishset_stochastic_11mar2009.mp3

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:39:11 +0000

And the last for the moment, a much more recent, post-live 8 beta enabled vocoded up style. More akin to my current gig kit, for all you promoters out there ;]

lokey_106bpm_junglishset_stochastic_11mar2009.mp3

lokey_consolidateThis_25Oct2007.mp3

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:16:02 +0000

yet more mixings, reaching way back into the past for inspiration, i bring you this little bit…

…lo

ConsolidateThis_25Oct2007.mp3

lokey_miksplace_RidiculousBreathsInside 6A_113_25Oct2007.mp3

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:08:38 +0000

Hi folks. Plenty of works, too little time, coupled with a snails pace of an upload speed, means for sporadic posting schedules. But now is the time, here’s a batch of sets for ya’ll, dig in…

RidiculousBreathsInside

lokey_7A_96bpm_SavioTestdrive,VerdoneOverlay

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:44:10 +0000

a new track swirled out of some recent collaborations towards a monome-focused compilation for Summer Rain promotions. We’ve had a recent string of labour issues here in ottawa, what with the transit union strike, conflicts between the TA union cupe 4600 and the actual TAs, and issues revolving around the recent dismisal and arrest of a physics prof at OttawaU for his efforts at encouraging self-directed learning and general malcontentism. Anyhow, it’s had me thinking of the state of the union, and thats a pretty appalling circumstance to consider. This track arose out of it all, based around an excellent recording of Mario Savio at the Proulx Hall free speech rally at Berkley in 1964. It’s very moving, and I hope my attempts to give its spirit new light are well received. My best to all who seek to free the cogs of the machine…

…lo.

my friend Mike Verdone contributed heavily to the final master, presented here as the
SavioTestdrive,VerdoneOverlay.mp3

I encourage remixes, help yourselves to the stems and do your own thing.

check my style; new media player, properly embedded vimeo…

admin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:05:48 +0000

A little tinkering under the hood folks, hopefully you’ll find faster load times, and enjoy a little more flexibility when it comes to skipping through longer sets with the new audio player. Feel free to give it all a good tire-kicking for me…

…lo.

lokey_theHoleGeneratingEngine

admin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:10:33 +0000

Hey folks. One more little number for you all, sifted to the top of of a frighteningly large list of recorded material i have at hand, another live session from some months back. Plenty more on the horizon, so stay tuned; February is Record Production Month, and while I doubt I’ll get a whole album finalized, I’m going to contribute a track along with the Miximal folks, so new tracks ahead. Peace…

theHoleGeneratingEngine.mp3

lokey_stochastic_betweenthemandtheirgod_27Nov2008

admin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:34:46 +0000

this year is bound to be a productive one for yours truly, and i’m keen to kick things off on a solid footing. With that said, here’s my current foot forward, the latest mix to be polished sufficiently for general perusal. A late november radio session, it’s a fairly developed example of my current live remix concept. Big things on the horizon folks…until then…

betweenthemandtheirgod_27Nov2008.mp3

succulent well wishes in the holiday style

admin — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:57:00 +0000

Hello to all my friends and loved ones. Just a short note to wish all of you a joyous and peaceful season and a festive and rowdy new year. It’s always a very great pleasure and blessing to have such a brilliant and vibrant life, and i owe it all to the warmth and friendship of my friends and family; my collective voluntary society that lights my path and fills my world with such amazing beauty. All the best to you along the most primal and basic pathways of life…

…leif

derivative matters of silence a la cage…

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:19:35 +0000

I suppose the thing that really bugs me is all the discussion surrounding the act of selling or owning a work of silence. 4′33” is basically a rebuttal to structured and orchestrated approaches to music. Its a matter of context, and of random happenstance. Any visceral enjoyment of a length of recorded silence in a piece is due to the nature of the environment in which it is reenacted. Its a bloody paradigm shift, the shift towards holistic musical approaches, the recognition that everything is music, even our responses to it. It’s obviously an important work in and of itself, but the essence of its point demands we allow for derivative and cumulative work. Hanging this guy batt out to dry in the courts for what amounts to a citation is fairly ludicrous. Imagine if einstein had held a patent on the general theory? You can’t expect to retain control over statements about the essential nature of the system.

lokeyBeats&theRedsMoveForward

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:56:31 +0000

Just finished tinkering with this recording i made last week at TeddyKGB’s Freestyle Fridays, an amazing little house cypher session that’s been running here in Ottawa over the past year. Ive been showing up to drop beats for an amazing cadre of rappers, and as i recently picked up a zoom h2, ive finally been able to do some recordings. Not too shabby, plenty to be learned though, so keep your eyes peeled for further recording sessions. Til then, hope this tides you over, think of it as a live feed into an awesome little soiré. Featuring words by Gravity, Dynamo Nonprofet, Teddy KGB, Boris the Bad Citizen and la Peche (let me know if ive missed anyone guys!) Peas…

freestylefridays_8Nov2008.mp3

lokey_MikesPlaceFadeOut_30nov2007.mp3

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:57:01 +0000

This has been a long time in coming, but check out this longset i played almost a year ago (blush, i really need to get under this set backlog). I just went ahead and ripped the whole of ‘bender’s big score’ to my turntable, and it proved to be an awesome set of scratch samples. Enjoy…

lokey_MikesPlaceFadeOut_30nov2007.mp3

stochasticJuly24_ExcessiveMarketTinkerings_103bpm

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:21:33 +0000

Hey folks, just in time for a bit of long weekend action, for those in north america, at least. We reach back to a set i played last july, well in advance of the rumblings of the global markets, a little rough round the edges initially, but it’s spent a little time under my psuedocritical cutting board, and im quite pleased with the result. Check it out…

lokey_stochasticJuly24_ExcessiveMarketTinkerings_103bpm.mp3

stochastic_3sept2008_minorscrubbings.mp3

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:37:17 +0000

Hi folks. After a few weeks of wrestling with wordpress 2.6 in my spare time, ive finally tamed the login issues ive had, and back in posting form. For those unenlightened out there, the secret is to disable the plugins, guys :]

Anyhow, back in the saddle, with a fresh new mix for yall. Its a tasty little number i played at the start of the month for my radio show, Stochastic Resonance on CKCU. We’ve got a fund drive coming up, so ill plug that now and get it resonating in your brain for a spell.

Without further ado, with only minor spit and polish and level correcting, here you go…

lokey_stochastic_3sept2008_minorscrubbings.mp3

lokey_warperset_15may2008_furthertinkerings.mp3

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:46:44 +0000

My last warper party set (may 15 2008) in its entirety. Find the video exerpt here, if you haven’t seen it, but this audio track includes the whole set. Enjoy!

furthertinkeringsonthewholeshebang.mp3

lokey monome-liveset @ IDEAL artspace, Sled Island Festival

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:00:52 +0000

a wonderful time, i played a three hour set at the sled island festival this year, courtesy the IDEAL artspace (kudos erik!). I shall have more tasty treats for you shortly, but here is the video i shot from the event. Enjoy…

lokey monome-liveset @ IDEAL artspace, Sled Island Festival from Lokey Selektor on Vimeo.

Lokey_InputOutput_PenultimateEdition_LiveEdit 10 August, 2008

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:57:36 +0000

i put this little number together recently as part of a monome-inspired ‘Input-Output’ collaboration. We each contributed a fifteen second sample, and then made individual tracks out of all the contributions…

Lokey_InputOutput_PenultimateEdition_LiveEdit from Lokey Selektor on Vimeo.