Category: Performance

Collaborating And Performing with Ableton Link

Collaborating & Performing With Ableton Link

The DJ 210 class at Pyramind was designed to harness the power of Ableton Live to create sophisticated DJ sets and Live performances. In this video segment Live 210 instructor Jimmy Su, challenges his students to do a collaborative performance using Ableton’s Link technology to synchronize all the computers in Pyramind’s D-Lab.

Ableton Live, Ableton Push 2

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The Breakdown | Erin Barra | Broken Banks | Ableton

Watch Erin Barra (Mamma Barra) perform Broken Banks from her Undefined EP using Ableton Live and the Push and an Akai LPK25.

This soulful throwback style track gets a different treatment for her live sets than the version on the album.  With lyrics inspired by a slam poet, an old school breakbeat and her stunning vocals, this is really a treat.

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Mubali Pyramind Elite Session

Elite Session with Mubali | Video Recap

Mubali is the musical project of Greg Farley, originally based in Monterey, California. He came from a classical music background, due to playing viola for 9 years in school, as well as a funk and soul upbringing. He has been involved in electronic music as a whole since 2000, after being converted to the dj culture by Burning Man and Dj Dice. After a short stint of being a Drum and Bass dj, he was enticed into the land of psychedelic trance by Dj’s Michael Liu and Hidroponik (A.K.A. Arahat ). Around spring 2001, Mubali was born as a dj. He specialized in the heavier end of psychedelic trance with a slightly techy influence. As a dj he was into the French, Russian and Danish sounds, as well as being an avid supporter of local San Francisco producers like Ocelot, Random, Ghreg on Earth, Chromatone, The Fractal Cowboys, and Penta.

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