Preparing for Armageddon

No, not the actual end of the world, but rather the latest Recycled Rainbow event. My main focus has been on a mobile, self-contained (and entirely portably-powered) live performance rig. I’ve been working on this conceptually since the springtime – initially in preparation for Burning Man, but that venture went belly-up so now it’s going to be for RR.

    The kit contains the following:

  • Boss DR-202 Drum machine
  • Yamaha QY-10 sequencer
  • Palm Tungsten E w/SD card for samples
  • Realistic mixer (hopefully enroute and working, and should arrive before 9/28, otherwise I’m screwed)
  • an old pair of Koss computer speakers that can run on 4 C cells

All of this stuff comfortably fits in an old laptop bag. There may even be room for a smallish MIDI controller that can be hacked to run on batteries, in case chords seem like a good idea.

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2 Responses to Preparing for Armageddon

  1. Jeremy Wilson says:

    Hello. I was just wondering how you use the Palm Tungsten E w/SD card for samples. Thanks

  2. glacial23 says:

    Jeremy,
    I basically had a number of MP3’s on the SD card, and played them using RealPlayer for PalmOS. It wasn’t quite at the level of an Akai, but I was at least able to drop some spoken word bits on the crowd.

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