Today was the first meeting of counter productive music collective at Exchange Dublin CPMC for short. I brought along my Akai MPK61 to play with but experienced one big technical fuckup. Somehow I managed overwrite my reason preset with a preset for Live Lite.
Now I got it all to work with a generic preset but that’s not what I wanted. So I’ve just sent off an e-mail to Akai support asking for help.
To find out more about the CPMC read this
Counter Productive Music Collective
In the beginning was the sound. The sound was life.
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The Counter Productive Music Collective (CPMC) is an open circle creative space that seeks to express the transitory moment in sound paintings. We desire to create sound free from the mediation of commerce. The CPMC seeks the expression of the creative animal as the highest good.
We live in a merchant society, a society motivated by profit that creates mediocre art. We are presented with the finished product of entertainment for our amusement, a closed circle that is to be enjoyed as a passive distraction. Novelty is the godhead of corporate enterprise, their god is profit. The CPMC believes creativity is the highest good,
that creation is the godhead of human existence.
The CPMC is a non profit group that wishes to communicate human expression free from the motivation, mediation and influence of commerce. The CPMC is the grit in the oyster that births the pearl, we are the worm inside the apple. We are valued as a part of the life force, we are not singular economic units creating material wealth.
The CPMC offers a blank canvas for capturing the moment in which we exist, a sound painting that reflects the space and time in which we live. We embrace the softest machine playing ostrich guitar, the tribal drumming of the suburbs lost tribes, tape loops on a cassette, the feedback of a guitar played as an electronic instrument, the percussion of a hand clap or a pencil tapping a cup, the editing of sound on a laptop, the finger turning a glass into a drone, the bird in your garden, the footfall on the street.
Update 25/01/2011 – Sent another mail to AKAI as I had no reply.
Update 25/01/2011 – found out how to reset the presets by playing around with the vyzor application. I’ll post an instructional video soon to show just how to fix.
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