“In those early days, I would set up multiple MIDI tracks in Ableton and use soft synths like Operator and Reaktor by Native Instruments, as well as the internal sounds from the Tenori-On, Kaossilator (tiny yellow version), the SpaceBeam and the MonoMachine.” “Ableton was always the instrument/DAW that held it all together,” recalls Reimann. As the lineup slowly coalesced into the current format of five members from the original 12-plus collective, Reimann was amazed by the self-expression that was free of ego. “Doing something as intimate as creating music together, we definitely influenced each other,” Reimann says. But he insists that the larger influence in those early days was each member’s relationship to their instruments and to each other. Other early influences, according to Reimann, included Mouse on Mars, Anti-Pop Consortium, Depeche Mode, Hot Chip, and Warp Records artists. Later, he and the collective would incorporate Percussa Audio Cubes, an Elektron Monomachine, MicroKorg (as a MIDI controller), an iPad running TouchOSC, and a Novation Launchpad.ĭuring the first week of jams back in 2008, Reimann heard a sound that resembled an admixture of early Animal Collective and Bruce Haack “on heavy sedatives”. From his personal collection of electronic instruments, Reimann picked out gear that he reckoned would be fun and accessible to people with no previous experience making electronic music – hardware like the Yamaha Tenori-On, Korg Kaossilator, and Frostwave SpaceBeam. Reimann recounts that by 2007 he had acquired a bit of electronic gear, which he soon sold to finance a Mac Powerbook and Ableton Live. He found it with the music workshops, a space that got Reimann thinking about the accessibility of modern musical interfaces, and how he and collaborators could help shape future instruments for differently abled musicians. Reimann, who characterizes music programs for disabled people as lazy and patronizing “singalongs”, wanted an approach to music that was deeper – something more complex and adventurous. When Randolf Reimann, frontman of Tralala Blip, a group of differently abled musicians from Australia, started teaching experimental electronic music to people at workshops at a disability service, he never thought it would evolve into a band.
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