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Laura Escudé, Ableton master, musician, composer and sound designer is bringing her brilliance to an Ableton Live Master Class this weekend!

Laura is director of Electronic Creatives and has worked with Cirque du Soleil as an Ableton programmer, toured Europe with acclaimed world music band Niyaz and was a tour consultant for Kayne West. Have a peek at the flyer; visit this site to sign up:

According to Electronic Creatives, "We are featuring Ableton Certified Trainer Laura Escudé, Producer/Performer Henry Strange and Andrew Pask from Cycling ‘74 presenting an introduction to Max for Live. The amount of knowledge that will be dropped is unparalleled!" Sounds great, eh?

Here's Laura performing at NAMM 2010:

I highly recommend this class, if I was still in LA I'd be there with bells on (not the DX 7 kind, mind you...)! 

I personally have just finally hatched out of the Ableton egg myself and am very excited to learn more about this groundbreaking software that is reknowned to be as smooth as a banana milkshake.

Above: Tara's 1st adventure with the APC 40, borrowed from a friend. Has anyone tried the APC 20?

Anyway - those of you in LA - go to Laura's class! Those of you not in LA, keep your eyes peeled for her classes around the globe....come to Wales, Laura!

Bone -chilling beauty and all, here's the latest from iamamiwhoami! More guesses as to the identity of the artist abound; and in my opinion, the clips just keep getting better. Read this post from Maf and more here about this sonic saga full of mind-bending sights and sounds...What do you think?

From iamamiwhoami 's YouTube channel:

What a sweet morning it is; chilly and sunny....coffee steam swirls around the studio and the machines wait for their morning zap from momma. Meanwhile, in my mailbox was a letter from Michelle Moog-Koussa, with tasty news of a new raffle they are holding at the Bob Moog Foundation....and of course, it is indeed part of the way we are wired here at AnalogSuicide to spread Moog love constantly & crazily. Soo - here's more information for you below from The Bob Moog Foundation's website:

  "The Bob Moog Foundation announces a once in a lifetime raffle opportunity to begin Tuesday March 9, 2010 at 12pm (EST). The Foundation will be selling $50 raffle tickets for a chance to win one of Lou Reed’s Moog Guitars.

 Only 200 tickets will be made available. Participants can purchase raffle tickets online at the Foundation’s online store http://moogfoundation.org/shop . The raffle will close when the 200 tickets have been sold and a winner will be chosen by an automated random selector. All proceeds go to benefit the projects of the Bob Moog Foundation.

Moog Guitar, serial #005, signed and played by Lou Reed, to the Foundation. The strikingly beautiful instrument is a maple top Tiger Eye Flame with an ash body, maple neck and ebony fret board. Reed has signed the front of the guitar; his labels for the guitar’s controls remain on the instrument as well as the brackets for his guitar strap."

Have a peek at this vidoe of Mr. Reed himself checking out the Moog Guitar

Onward with the day - and have a good wander through the rest of the wonderful Bob Moog Foundation site, including this page featuring the upcoming 'Moogseum'. Fantastic.

Greetings! I have long since wanted to watch this beautiful documentary that was shown last year on BBC 4 - "Krautrock - The Rebirth of Germany". Now thanks to kukkaisrinsessa 's YouTube Channel, we can watch on this fine, gentle drizzly Cardiff morning.

Above - Klaus Schultze in 1976 with his army of machines to die for. (photo from KlausSchultze.com). He's featured in part 3.

Here are parts One through three...have a watch with me and let me know what you think - do you have links to more? I feel I may have to delve deeper into this beautiful breed of sonic sweetness for my own well- being. Enjoy:

Pssst - more goodness? Check out the great Krautrock.com as well. 

I skipped upon this beautiful artist, Émilie Simon, this morning courtesy of Synthtopia and Create Digital Music's Twitter pages. Check out Ms. Simon's musical mastery and her delicious brew of Tenori-On and the sweet Doepher Dark Energy synth ( which I envy).

The most luscious detail is the sweet controller that she wears on her wrist - according to Create Digital Music, the fabulous  "wrist-strapped controller is Cyrille Brissot’s invention, aptly named “The Brissot.” 

Above photo by Elizabeth Sentianin from The Indie Handbook (and her Myspace page) - here is an excerpt from an interview with Émilie in The Indie Handbook where she gives us a brief explaination of her "Arm":

"So, basically it’s a remote control and it’s triggering effects on my software wirelessly, and I have it on my arm. I’ve had it since the first album, from the beginning, but we’ve had different systems. This is the third generation. At the time, we didn’t have all this wireless Play Station stuff like we have now that you can use for musical things. So we were using another system, but this one was built last summer, actually."

Read the rest here.

The Brissot reminds me delightfully of something out of Delicatessen, Bladerunner or Brazil. Anyway - I'm new to the world of Émilie Simon, so I'd now like to sit back w/ my coffee for a deeper peek...have a pleasing week, everyone.

Find her highly fabulous YouTube channel with lots of gorgeous clips here.