Sunday Synth Jam: Berlin-based guitarist and inventor Robin Sukroso shared this live performance of Moonshine, arranged for for MIDI-enabled acoustic guitar.
The performance was filmed as a single shot, at the abandoned Institute of Anatomy in Berlin-Steglitz. In the performance, Sukroso plays an acoustic guitar that’s been augmented with his ACPAD, right, a wireless MIDI controller that he uses to control looping, effects and to trigger sampled sounds.
In addition to being a powerful performance, it’s also technically impressive. Here’s what Sukroso had to tell us about the technical details of his performance:
ACPAD sends wirelessly onto Mac. For purpose of making it look good, I kept my laptop in guitar bag, kept it a little bit open (put rubber space beside touch pad and taped it 🙂 in order to receive MIDI data over Bluetooth.
The software is our own standalone software ACPAD Replay (which is out since 2 weeks for MAC).
I use an (RME) Babyface as audio interface (you can see a cable going into the guitar bag). The Babyface doesn’t need a power supply, but powers via USB cable from Laptop.
Sukroso said that he wanted the video to demonstrate the possibilities of the ACPAD + ACPAD Replay combination, including:
- mobility;
- looping functions of audio;
- effects (delay and distortion are used in the video); and
- triggering sounds which come along with ACPAD Replay.
Details on the ACPAD & ACPAD Replay software are available at the company’s site.
Beautiful performance. Hope you have great success.
This is fantastic!!
First, of all, it’s a very natural sounding 5/8 (10/8) meter, that he plays with utter precision. (For noobs, it’s a 2 or 4 slow-beat phrase, where each beat is divided into 5 subdivisions– in this case it’s 3 + 2, which means there’s little accents on 1 and 4 of the five. Backbeats are put on the 1 of the 2nd & 4th beats.)
Secondly, he plays it seemingly unedited as he walks through a cool vandal-scape, self-contained, recording into his guitar case.
Thirdly, he makes tasteful use of the MIDI features of that guitar rig.
He’s wonderful.
Wonderful and so moving! Thanks for sharing this.
Made me want to learn to play the acoustic guitar!
i was more impressed how a run down building looks cool in a music video.
would have liked to hear some haunting vocals as well.
i guess this is the new one man band for the modern era ,not my cup of tea and i would suggest guitarists will get even bigger ego’s .
anyway i’m not sticking that thing on my gorgeous accoustic.