Artists

Rauri Rochford

auri Rochford early toyed with guitar strings and an appreciation of the digital arts led to sequencing music with tracking programs. Scattered releases escaped under the moniker sq2.
A first public outing with industrial band JASL (The Junior Anti-Sex League) braved three live shows before disintegrating under its own weight.
Back at origin, the focus returned to solo compositions, refining tracking procedures and sample remapping techniques. The lack of live flexibility in the computer interface forced a progression to midi instrumentation.
The act specialises in delivering truely live electronica - music is written in pattern form, with trimmed samples, little midi loops, and loosely defined effects. This allows for a flexible live performance which requires me to lose a bit of sweat to get the songs happening. Rochford's key units of machinery are the Yamaha RM1x synth, the Roland SP808ex sampler and the Clavia Nord Lead 1. Wave and sample editing occurs on various computer programs, with many sounds sourced from a back catalogue of hissy mod files. Outboard effects units, including an Alesis Airfx unit and various guitar pedals, are employed as necessary.
Typical genre titles you'd Rochford's music floating around in would be psytrance, breakbeaty drum and bass, dubby hippety-trippety-hop through to empty ambience... all with a twisted psychedelic feel through heavilyl modulated/filtered sounds.
The goal for the upcoming performance at the Small Black Box, is to deliver a spontaneous response to the surrounds, the crowds, the artist playing subsequence performance - served with a dash of clickity clack, hums, and whirs. Dot matrix...

Website: http://hexadecimal.ice.org