Jonathan R Cross
Low Frequency Oscillator - Hardware Jams weekend challenge
updated
Live and improvised techno set. Made up on the spot, an electronic music improvisation in a techno style, including jazzy sprinkles. Streaming live, there's a high risk of everything going wrong!
Using synths, drum machines, and keyboards, I will make up a live set from scratch and keep going to see how long I can go... Come and help me choose a patch for the Arturia Microfreak as we go!
The next instalment of the live-jammed hardware set from scratch show.
00:00 Stream start
5:05 IntroJammin
20:00 Random Microfreak Patch of the week
1:17:01 OutroJammin
Has anyone noticed what the date is on Sunday? Yes, that's right, it is the 3rd of March - 303 Day of course.
So, here's your challenge, make sure to read it all the way through...
I challenge you to get through the full five minutes without making any 303 (or clones of 303) sounds at all! If you can't resist the urge half way through the jam to do a bit of squelching then you will get the sharp end of THE AXE OF CURTAILMENT when your jam is played in the streamthrough...
But, there is one way to get around this, seeing as I know you all love a chance to bend the rules and you all love a bit of acid... If you start your jam with full-on 303 lovliness from the very first note, then it will stand and be allowed to escape the axe!
Have fun jammers! Please keep your jams around 5 minutes long and avoid using any copyrighted materials. Drop a comment below here with a link to your jam, preferably on YouTube but Soundcloud. Also you need to fill in the Google form at the link below. Streathrough will be on our YouTube channel on Monday evening (GMT) - see you there!
Website www.jonathanrcross.com
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Live and improvised techno set. Made up on the spot, an electronic music improvisation in a techno style, including jazzy sprinkles. Streaming live, there's a high risk of everything going wrong!
Using synths, drum machines, and keyboards, I will make up a live set from scratch and keep going to see how long I can go... Come and help me choose a patch for the Arturia Microfreak as we go!
The next instalment of the live-jammed hardware set from scratch show.
Tonight's intro track is a release out on the 29th February 2024, "Chasing Entropy" Jonathan R Cross distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jonathanrcross/chasing-entropy-2
00:00 Stream start
04:00 hellos and intro
05:05 Intro Jammin
Website www.jonathanrcross.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
"You have just landed on the moon again....and find you are not alone!Due to the small area in the space craft, you were only allowed 2 instruments... (Or 2 rows of modular😝)You are also restricted by oxygen meaning that your jam can not take longer than an hour to make and film!Its important to make friends with the aliens because you have noticed they have already have collected junk that the earth has sent their way n are constructing a weapon for earths doom!5 mins you have to impress them we are worth saving!"
So i started jamming at 142BPM on the swarm and TR8s for five mins, then started recording...
We won't discuss how we actually managed to broadcast sound in a vacuum. Instead, let's imagine we could beam the signals to the alien residents, and we would be listening on headphones, inside our helmets, so i guess it would work lol! We could also physically vibrate the moon's surface... maybe...
Website www.jonathanrcross.com
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Gear used
Roland TR8s
Arturia Microfreak
Korg Monologue
Eowave quadrantid Swarm
Korg kaosspad ii
Behringer edge
Boss rc505 looper
Yamaha reface cp
Yamaha reface yc
Casio prévia px330
Behringer xenyx usb mixer
Alto mixer
Akg 702 headphones
Live and improvised techno set. Made up on the spot, an electronic music improvisation in a techno style, including jazzy sprinkles. Streaming live, there's a high risk of everything going wrong!
Using synths, drum machines, and keyboards, I will make up a live set from scratch and keep going to see how long I can go... Come and help me choose a patch for the Arturia Microfreak as we go!
The next instalment of the live-jammed hardware set from scratch show.
00:00 Stream start / intro
05:15 Jamming
19:07 Random Microfreak Patch of the week 46
Website www.jonathanrcross.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 11pm UK time
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Gear used:
Roland TR8s
Arturia Microfreak
Korg Monologue
Eowave quadrantid Swarm
Korg kaosspad ii
Behringer edge
Boss rc505 looper
Yamaha reface cp
Yamaha reface yc
Casio prévia px330
Behringer xenyx usb mixer
Alto mixer
Akg 702
Live and improvised techno set. Made up on the spot, an electronic music improvisation in a techno style, including jazzy sprinkles. Streaming live, there's a high risk of everything going wrong!
Using synths, drum machines, and keyboards, I will make up a live set from scratch and keep going to see how long I can go... Come and help me choose a patch for the Arturia Microfreak as we go!
The next instalment of the live-jammed hardware set from scratch show.
00:00 Stream Start
01:16 Intro track - "Escape Velocity" Jonathan R Cross
05:24 Techno with Jazzy Sprinkles
Website www.jonathanrcross.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Gear used:
Roland TR8s
Arturia Microfreak
Korg Monologue
Eowave quadrantid Swarm
Korg kaosspad ii
Behringer edge
Boss rc505 looper
Yamaha reface cp
Yamaha reface yc
Casio prévia px330
Behringer xenyx usb mixer
Alto mixer
Akg 702
Live and improvised techno set. Made up on the spot, an electronic music improvisation in a techno style, including jazzy sprinkles. Streaming live, there's a high risk of everything going wrong!
Using synths, drum machines, and keyboards, I will make up a live set from scratch and keep going to see how long I can go... Come and help me choose a patch for the Arturia Microfreak as we go!
The next instalment of the live-jammed hardware set from scratch show.
Gear used:
Roland TR8s
Arturia Microfreak
Korg Monologue
Eowave quadrantid Swarm
Korg kaosspad ii
Behringer edge
Boss rc505 looper
Yamaha reface cp
Yamaha reface yc
Casio prévia px330
Behringer xenyx usb mixer
Alto mixer
Akg 702
00:00 Stream start and intro
05:40 Initial jam
28:37 Random Microfreak Patch of the week
1:07:07 Happy Friday and outro
Website jonathanrcross.com
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Video clip of the running man is from Christian Bhodi on Pixabay pixabay.com/videos/tunnel-stars-light-exit-man-124983
Website www.jonathanrcross.com
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
This was taken from the livestream of 26th Jan.
Live and improvised techno set. Made up on the spot, an electronic music improvisation in a techno style, including jazzy sprinkles. Streaming live, there's a high risk of everything going wrong!
Using synths, drum machines, and keyboards, I will make up a live set from scratch and keep going to see how long I can go... Come and help me choose a patch for the Arturia Microfreak as we go!
The next instalment of the live-jammed hardware set from scratch show.
00:00 stream intro
00:38 Inkpress
08:37 IntroJammin
38:14 Random Microfreak Patch of the week
1:18:11 OutroJammin
Recently released as "Re-entry burn"
Live and improvised techno set. Made up on the spot, an electronic music improvisation in a techno style, including jazzy sprinkles. Streaming live, there's a high risk of everything going wrong!
Using synths, drum machines, and keyboards, I will make up a live set from scratch and keep going to see how long I can go... Come and help me choose a patch for the Arturia Microfreak as we go!
The next instalment of the live-jammed hardware set from scratch show.
00:00 Stream start
04:45 Initial Jam
43:50 Random Microfreak Patch of the Week (trence)
1:16:00 Outro Jammin
No talking version available mixcloud.com/pianotpot/techno-live-with-jazzy-sprinkles-episode-74
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Website - jonathanrcross.com
Releases - fanlink.to/JrC
Using Limitations of which gear we can use is a great way to increase creativity and force you to extract as much as you can from your boxes.
I chose the Roland TR8s, Behringer Edge, and Korg Monologue, (i'm hoping there's a mixer at the place, but I will try and use the Roland's external ins... Straight up Techno from the off...
Prompt:L
"EMOMs (Electronic Music Open Mic) events are spreading over the UK and the world! Created by Martin Christie , they are the perfect excuse for us jammers to get out of our synth dungeons. This week we're all going to an EMOM, usually 15 mins, we want your first 5 minutes of a set!
However.....the man who was going to take you and you're entire studio just called to say the van has broken down! Therefore you are only allowed to use what you can physically carry!
Remember you're representing HWJs😁 and have fun!!!"
Website www.jonathanrcross.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Merch - jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Using synths, drum machines, and keyboards, I will make up a live set from scratch and keep going to see how long I can go... Come and help me choose a patch for the Arturia Microfreak as we go!
The next instalment of the live-jammed hardware set from scratch show.
00:00 Stream start
05:47 Jam initiation
1:15:31 Stream error
1:16:42 Restart for outrojammin
Wishing you a good weekend ahead.
After the jam I've inlcuded the entire build process (in case you are bored or interested) :-)
"Remix and Rearrange
This weekend we are running a crossover challenge with the current Jamuary daily prompts provided by ourselves and Petite Victory Collective
Remix Challenge - Take an existing song and give it your unique twist."
So i added some microfreak arp to add to the chords...
I've got a website! Links to more stuff. . . www.jonathanrcross.com
Support me on bandcamp pianotpot.bandcamp.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time www.twitch.tv/pianotpot
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Live electronic music
Help me pick a patch on the microfreak that I then have to use. See you there!
00:00 Stream start
9:09 techno with jazzy sprinkles
"Happy new Year fellow Jammers,
First challenge of the year will be one of my favourite PICTURE CHALLENGE whoooop hoop.
This is a picture from the artist Remedios Varo titled Harmony – 1956 (surrealism I’m inclined to think) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remedios_Varo)
The challenge is to draw inspiration from the picture, interpret it and translate it into your music. Many elements spark my attention looking at the picture, for instance the “objects” on the pentagram (are they actually a melody?), the muses (????) in the walls, the tiles on the floor lifted as if they were organ (or wah-wah) pedals. Get inspired by it."
So I did a downtempo jam and got to use my new Yamaha reface yc !
I've got a website! Links to more stuff. . . www.jonathanrcross.com
Merch! jonathanrcross.bigcartel.com
Support me on bandcamp pianotpot.bandcamp.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time www.twitch.tv/pianotpot
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Also check out my initial Yamaha CP jams youtu.be/SGSy4UH2cTc
I've got a website! Links to more stuff. . . www.jonathanrcross.com
Support me on bandcamp pianotpot.bandcamp.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time www.twitch.tv/pianotpot
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
@HardwareJams
the rules were no longer than 5 minutes.
I've got a website! Links to more stuff. . . www.jonathanrcross.com
Support me on bandcamp pianotpot.bandcamp.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time www.twitch.tv/pianotpot
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Thanks to @pierrottheacidclown8570 for the slot, and to all of clownarmy for the amazing music so far! And Clownfest 12 is still not over! It will be ongoing for 2 more days taking us into 2024.
I've got a website! Links to more stuff. . . www.jonathanrcross.com
Support me on bandcamp pianotpot.bandcamp.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time here on YouTube and also streaming on www.twitch.tv/pianotpot
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Part one here
youtube.com/watch?v=PkQYRRPNY5E&t=13s
See you there! Part one! Part two here youtube.com/live/WwZDXdPkm7Y
The prompt:
"It's getting to that time of year when much of us take a well-needed festive break.
To some that may be spending time with family, others snuggling in front of the fire or going for bracing walks in the cold. Or throwing a shrimp on the barbie.
However you celebrate this time of year, make a jam that fits the season. You could go full fa-la-la-la-la, channel your innner Maria Carey or subvert the whole thing.
Who will be the Hardware Jams Xmas Number 1 this year?
RULES:
Jams must be created between now and the 18th"
Enjoy, JC.
I've edited out a portion where we had crackles.
I've got a website! Links to more stuff. . . www.jonathanrcross.com
Support me on bandcamp pianotpot.bandcamp.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time www.twitch.tv/pianotpot
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
Still not sure about the KP, toy/fun or serious? Lets see how it sounds.
Released as “Re Entry Burn” go.jonathanrcross.com/ReEntryBurn
I've got a website! Links to more stuff. . . www.jonathanrcross.com
Support me on bandcamp pianotpot.bandcamp.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time www.twitch.tv/pianotpot
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
So here's 190 BPM techno - with some Behringer Edge 10,000BPM ending
Full stream of al entries here youtube.com/live/Y6_GBqCGp7c?si=6QKQiLC8W9Kzc35-
I've got a website! Links to more stuff. . . www.jonathanrcross.com
Support me on bandcamp pianotpot.bandcamp.com
Watch me build a live set from scratch every Thursday at 23:00 UK time www.twitch.tv/pianotpot
Links to my releases fanlink.to/JrC
No talking version on Bandcamp - Free download pianotpot.bandcamp.com/track/techno-live-with-jazzy-sprinkles-episode-67
No talking version on Mixcloud - mixcloud.com/pianotpot/techno-live-with-jazzy-sprinkles-episode-67-jonathan-r-cross


