MOLDOVER designs and builds his own custom MIDI controllers which he uses to compose and perform music. Respected as much for forging new instruments as he is for creating new music, Moldover has worked with renowned artists including Bassnectar, DJ Shadow, and Will-i-am, as well as leading music tech companies Native Instruments, Ableton, and Livid Instruments to realize new designs. All events take place at Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.
Sunday, October 7: 7:00 pm - Live Performance & Custom Instrument Demo by Moldover with special guest Skot Weidmann (Main Lounge). San Francisco based artist Moldover will perform live electronic music with custom instruments of his own design. Learn about the inner workings of his stage instruments, The Robocaster guitar, The MC1 voice controller, and The Mojo Ableton controller. Special guest Skot Weidmann will talk about and play his own invention, the Hyve Touch Synthesizer.
Monday, October 8: 7:00 pm - Making Music with Your Mobile Device (South Rec). Come get your touchscreen dirty and explore how smart-phones and tablets can be a gateway to tremendous musical creativity. Bring your Android or iOS device, download some free apps, learn about sampling, sequencing, signal processing, and then connect your 1/8” jack to our mixer for a group jam.
9:00 pm – Tea Time: Being a jack-of-all-trades or a master of none (guest apartment). Come chat and have snacks in the guest apartment.
Tuesday, October 9: 7:00 pm - Electronic Songwriting & Music Production (recording studio and room 63). Join Moldover in our recording studio and get a hands-on overview of his approach to writing, recording, and producing electronic music. After an overview of each process, Moldover will lead the group in collaboratively constructing a song together, drawing on ideas and musical contributions from anyone and everyone.
9:00 p.m – Tea Time: The joys and challenges of a creative life (guest apartment). Come chat and have snacks in the guest apartment.
Wednesday, October 10: 7:00 pm - Jambox Jamshop (Room 63). Learn about the unique multiplayer musical instruments (AKA “jamboxes”) that Moldover has designed, and get your hands on his latest creation, The 8-Bit Boombox. Enjoy remixing retro chiptune music using gaming controllers, dig into the software and hardware guts of this hacked-instrument, and join Moldover in creating a new and unique jambox together as a group.
9:00 pm – Tea Time: Let’s get technical – get inside the design of Moldover’s stage instruments, circuit board artwork, and other creations (guest apartment). Come chat and have snacks in the guest apartment.
Thursday, October 11: 7:00 pm - Build Your Own Voice Crusher (South Rec). In this basic soldering workshop Moldover will take you through the steps to build your own pocket-sized, 8-bit, circuit bent, Voice Crusher. Even if you’ve never soldered before, this workshop will give you the confidence in just a few hours, AND you’ll go home with a fun and unique instrument that is also a USB drive containing a deluxe-digital edition of Moldover’s album “Four Track”. Free for Allen Hall students. $25 for everyone else.
10:00 pm – Tea Time: Playable Packaging Petting Zoo (guest apartment). Explore Moldover’s other physical music albums that are also playable instruments, as well as some rare Playable Packaging designs by other artists.
Thanks to Laura Haber of Unit One/Allen Hall for this information item.