TORONTO'S ONLY TRUE RAVE UNDERGROUND

"I am a Blaze On Every Hill. I am a Queen of Every Hive..." The name is taken from the Call of Amergin poem. This is a highly experimental LoFi live jam where a Numark DJ Mixer is used for Drones and Bass-rich Rhythm/Melody loops and accompanied by Subtractive and FM Syntheses On The Fly. The Firefly.

Mayday is simply a fine day in May. Well...does night qualify as "day"? Some of my visitors tell me that my globe is "upside down". I of course, immediately correct them by saying that any "up" or "down" in space is arbitrary. To which they reply: "But we're not in space". To which I reply (looking at them in sheer bewilderment) - " - Really? Then where do you suppose we all really are?" If we aren't speeding in convoluted spiral paths at 600 km/s towards the Great Attractor (surely located "in space" just as we are) then I have no idea where the f$%# we are... Really... Where else are we?

Because we werent very sober and collected, the DJ jam went all over the place. I forgot to turn the photography umbrella light diffuser on, so the video is a little dark, and music doesn't actually begin until some seconds later. (Or at least it's how I remember it). DISCLAIMER: THE MUSIC USED (Large part of it anyway) - DOES NOT BELONG TO EITHER OF US. But we used the artistic license to downmix and I already checked - the artist doesn't appear to object despite the fact Evil Big Brother Google Mogul flagged it anyway. My name is Telum Atramenti, in the video Cicatrix Wasp and I jam at my studio in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This is the second video of the Disorderly Conduct Series. The first will be uploaded some time later when I'll get some free time. Last week I don't even have the time to watch my favourite YouTube lectures, never mind post videos, but I do what I can. Please - a round of applause for Cicatrix, she is an excellent artist, DJ and guitarist and I love her madly. Instruments used for accompaniment: Electribe II Synth by Korg, Novation's SL MK III, Kodamo "Essence FM", and Roland's "System 1m". "Voices" samples arranged and played back using NI Reaktor 5 Travelizer, AKAI MPK Mini and the ol' good AKAI APC 40. Reverberation and Shimmer FX for drumming were passed through Eventide's "Space" Reverb FX processor/pedal. Spinning was done on a very cheap and unassuming Numark Party Mix II. Telum Atramenti (aka "Cuddlefish").

Raw, unmastered, unedited video I'm uploading for the record. In the coming week these videos will be recombined with high quality sound of the same jam recorded through Audacity and Ableton.

I'm uploading the last couple of music videos to have an online record because my main 6 TB hard drive is acting a little weird lately and my external drives ran out of space. I haven't yet watched either of the 2 videos nor worked on sound, - so the sound is crappy because it's the sound recorded directly from the camera's microphone not Ableton or Audacity. In the next couple of weeks I will re-combine high quality sound of our jam with this video. It's called "disorderly conduct" because this is the third video that we had to do in a hurry and neither of us were very sober or collected. I hope I can rectify this mess tonight and record a good quality EDM Jam with C.W. if we do find time after finishing the massive studio cleaning project she volunteered to help me with.

This project took 3 weeks and a whackload of my health with it. But it allows for far more live spontaneity, especially when 2 or 3 people jam together, and it allows for much greater ease of spinning and overlaying sounds on top of tracks played via digital or analog DJ equipment (I use digital but some of my friends prefer analog and old school turntables). main thing which changed is I separated the area with drum machines from area with melody synths. I can still access both, but it makes it easier for a second person to jam along. The total amount of DAW drum machines simultaneously available for live jamming increased from 2 to ...10 (!!). Yep. Some of them can be grooveboxes and pads if necessary, and even digital melody synths are accessible via Ableton VSTs through SL MK III should the second musician need them.

Recorded at Atramentum Sound Labs Despite Tremendous Resistance By Every Object, Person, Thought and Idea... We exist DESPITE not because

Atramentum Sound Labs Studios EDM and Dark Ambient Live Trial Jam. I've never went live before using YT format. I just did this to see how it would actually sound, and I really didn't expect much. It felt as though the depth dimension of sound was somehow just removed. Wonder if I can improve that and what I must change if I indeed could.

Rhythmic, haunting and just a touch disturbing: the way much of great Ambient music ought to be

Warning: This DIY tutorial video was post-dated on a schedule to be automatically available on the 16th of September 2022 but the ACTUAL recording date may differ, far pre-dating it. I have arranged Atramentum Sound Labs channel to auto-broadcast this way in the event of my death, to create a plausible impression of immediacy of experience and almost interactive-level vividness. If this will create any confusion, - I apologise for it in advance. Most of us don't have large studios and not all of us can afford building a Eurorack. VESA Computer monitor holder arms/stands are a fraction of Eurorack's cost. What is even more awesome - people frequently toss these out and they end up in landfills. Once your synths are attached to 1-3 poles sporting 2-3 arms each, - not only does this preclude your cat accidentally knocking your equipment down on the floor and damaging it, - you can now do something that only vertical Eurorack designs and this method allow you to do without fear. Can you guess what it is? But of course, having a coffee or another beverage while recording, jamming or practicing. And it leaves plenty of area on your desk for MIDI controllers, keyboard synths or grooveboxes/samplers.

This is in lieu of the actual review. I am paid nothing by the Kodamo people. However, I believe this is yet the easiest to learn and use, most ergonomic and the most powerful hardware FM synth to hit the market. And yet - few people have even heard of it. I am not a fan of this synth's form factor, as I prefer a lot of physical, palpable, hard knobs and buttons to tweak sound live. However, I do realise that it would have been impossible to create an FM synth that is this easy to learn, powerful, ergonomic and simple without a touchscreen. This is my experience with it, take it in with due Critical Thinking and skepticism.

Telum Atramenti spinning at the ASL January 2021 and 2022. This is part 3 video of one of our recorded parties. As True Underground I have been censored, sanctioned, silenced, banned from Facebook, Twitter, even Discord a total of 12 times, but I still came back and posted my FREE EDM EVENTS. I am a Secular Humanist, and as one I stand not only for Sanctity of Human Life but also for Quality of Life and Individual Moral Autonomy, values without which Sanctity of Life is MEANINGLESS! I've lost no one to COVID, and none of my parties' attendees have ever become seriously ill. However, prior to my decision to ignore Stay Home orders, - I have lost two friends one to suicide, another to overdose. RIP. They were incredibly lonely and miserable before they took their lives, and I realised that I don't want to see anyone else suffer alone from mental health issues, virus be damned. I'm in a group of higher risk of COVID complications, but I decided not to dress up cowardice as "conscientiousness" and "social responsibility" and take risks, giving hugs, music and company to all who needed it. And I will continue doing so unless we have a far more serious and deadly disease with 15-20% IFR or more. (which we probably will, as our governments have not learned their lesson and climate warming and habitat destruction will continue).