My rig at the recent 5 x 5 x 5 sessions

In the second week of July I got together with my oldest friend, and musical co-conspirator, Willi for a session of noise making. Self-dubbed, "5 by 5 by 5", the idea was to reconnect creatively after a long 6 month hiatus by making some semi-spontaneous noise in five days, using five instruments/signal processors each.

We tried to avoid digressing into weeks and months of tedious, one-note-at-a-time music composition that we had been at for some years now. While this old approach did produce results, it cost time and frustration that I just couldn't bear any longer.

As his five weapons Willi picked a TS-10, a Memorymoog, a SH-3A, an ASR-X and a couple of effects boxes. I picked the Karma Workstation, my Creamware Prodyssey ASB, an ESX-1, an EF-303 and (greatest of all), the Suzuki OmniChord (California Edition).

I'll write more about this session and, just possibly, post some of the noises we made.