Here are a couple of little bits. It was unseasonably warm last week, so while taking a walk I used the Soundcloud app to capture a little bit of birdsong. This week, temps have plunged, accompanied by ice storm warnings, so the birdsong has been frozen and stretched in time as well.

I'm in the process of going through a bunch of old physical media, with the goal of re-archiving old Logickal material*. I decided I would open one of these at random in Live 9 and see what happens. This afternoon's improvisation is based on a Live set with a last modified date of September 5, 2003 (I'm guessing the Live 3 beta period - my usage of Live seems to greatly increase during the Beta!). My findings:

1. Yes, Live 9 will open ancient Live sessions.
2. There are quite a few plugins that I used to use regularly that are no longer supported... or at least haven't been updated in a while.
3. Live really has come a long way with session/project organization over the years. It's hard to believe we lived without 'Collect All and Save' and the Live Pack format.
4. My old scraps are (so far) hardly worth keeping.

So, here is another improv - Vile (None Transgression).

*(Actually, I'm looking for something, but that's another story.)

... to the Ableton Live 9 beta test. Started playing around last night, tried the audio-to-midi feature by singing a melody line in, which you hear played by the piano (wacky chordal harmonizations were done with a dastardly combination of Live's midi effects). Anyway, not much to it - some drums, an Operator synth with a modulated filter envelope for the bassline, more Operator for the bell synth and one of the nice Pianos.

Here it is.