midierror meets...

In this episode, we're speaking to ROEL FUNCKEN, an IDM and Ambient artist who has been on line-ups with Aphex Twin. Autechre and many other influential acts.
Roel studied sonology for 6 years, and formed a duo with his brother Don called Funckarma, and started releasing solo material in 2010.

We discuss his approach to processing audio in ProTools and Ableton Live, studying Sonology and his incredible paintings. His latest album 'Data Curation 2' and many other releases are available on his Bandcamp store now, with a monthly subscription for exclusive access to new material, listening parties and more. Roel has a new collaborative release coming in May with EXM.

https://roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/music
https://soundcloud.com/roelfuncken
https://roelfunckenpaintings.com/

This is series 2, episode 1 and there are 50 previous episodes available now featuring Fatboy Slim, CJ Bolland, Andrew Huang, Tim Exile, High Contrast, Mylar Melodies, Infected Mushroom, DJ Rap, John Grant and many more. Available on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp.

On this episode, we're speaking to MARTYN WARE of Heaven 17, The Human League and BEF fame! In his multi-million selling career, Martyn has worked on all kinds of musical projects all over the world, including those mentioned above, as well as with Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, Sananda Maitreya (Terence Trent D'Arby) and so many more.

He formed Illustrious, an immersive soundscape company with Vince Clarke just after the millennium, and he now runs a popular podcast entitled 'Electronically Yours' which is worth checking out - and shares its title with his Autobiography! His latest immersive experience is 'It’s Always Ourselves We Find In The Sea' which is a FREE event in Halifax, running from 4th April - 4th May, with an emphasis on collective response to the climate emergency.

Get ready for an expansive chat about his career, his studio, and how he approaches making music!

https://martynwareofficial.co.uk/

This is series 2, episode 1 and there are 50 previous episodes available now featuring Fatboy Slim, CJ Bolland, Andrew Huang, Tim Exile, High Contrast, Mylar Melodies, Infected Mushroom, DJ Rap, John Grant and many more. Available on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp.

This time we catch up with Jake Knight of RYK Modular; who started the company working on Roland System 100M modules, and has since built up a collection of superb modules of his own including Night Rider, Algo, and Vector Wave - with many available in kit form as well as finished units.

Jake's also an award-winning film director having created the 'Salaryman 6' short film (shown below) with his wife Ryoko Tanaka, and together as Ne-o they've made music videos for The Chemical Brothers, The Herbaliser, Coldcut and others. They continue to work on RYK Modules together, as Jake explains...

https://www.ryk-modular.com/products

For this episode we hear from Matt Cox of Gravity Rigs - who has been the Chemical Brothers go-to MIDI & Keyboard tech for over 30 years, still touring with them since the mid-90s! He's also worked with The Prodigy, Hot Chip, Disclosure, Bicep, Eric Prydz, Pendulum, The Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Orbital and many more - ensuring they have rock-solid, bullet-proof live performance systems.

Gravity Rigs was co-founded with Alex Turner; together they design and build rigs for the biggest artists in the world, many of which are detailed on their website. https://gravityrigs.com/

This is series 2, episode 1 and there are 50 previous episodes available now featuring Fatboy Slim, CJ Bolland, Andrew Huang, Tim Exile, High Contrast, Mylar Melodies, Infected Mushroom, DJ Rap, John Grant and many more.

The 'midierror meets...' interview series is back! For this episode we hear from Stuart Warren-Hill, the designer of the Hologauze - a thin veil which is projected onto for incredible pseudo-3D and parallax-type effects as used by Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Eric Prydz, DJ Shadow, Max Cooper and more. He's also the man behind Hexstatic, known for his award winning audio/visual work, creating the world first visual album, and making 'Timber' - an era-defining music video highlighting the destruction caused by deforestation - and quite possibly the most remixed video of all time. He also has a lovely synth collection, including an ARP Quadra, Solina String Synth, and Thomas Dolby signed TB-303.

https://www.holotronica.com/

https://stuartwarrenhill.com/

This is series 2, episode 1 and there are 50 previous episodes available now featuring Fatboy Slim, CJ Bolland, Andrew Huang, Tim Exile, High Contrast, Mylar Melodies, Infected Mushroom, DJ Rap, John Grant and many more.