Jo-lab event

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14/03/2025 Fukuoka, Japan

Modular Synth & MTR casette Performance in Recording Studio KYUSHU UNIVERSITY

For this second performance I used the Roland System 100M with its own set of issues. No keyboard, no sequencer. I just used my finger to send a gate signal and built everything live.

I tried to make my own cassette loop system. It was a bit of a mess — I made like five different loops, and they all kept failing. The tape would stop or get stuck. But those mistakes created little sounds and glitchesthat ended up being more interesting than what I’d planned.

I layered sounds by hand, built voices and textures from scratch, and let the machines do their thing. It wasn’t about perfection — more like finding something honest in the mess.