Author: jjdeprisco
Sonic explorer, sound artist, guitarist in Fricknadorable, software designer.
It started with three Jethro Tull LPs… Aqualung, Thick As A Brick and Warchild. Those LPs were part of my father’s record collection. Around the time I was in high school (late 80s, early 90s), I began to be heavily influenced by those albums and wore them out. I recall ...
Between 2013 and 2019, I ran a modest project studio in Central, PA. It was eventually dubbed “Pepperhead Studios” after my love of hot peppers and the expanding garden I eventually built outside. The studio space itself was 1200 square feet, in the basement of a church that had previously ...
Excellent condition, works (see pictures below).Must go so that I can free up space. Philly area local pickup ONLY – no shipping (too heavy/fragile to be worth it). Willing to meet in Norristown or Plymouth Meeting area. Connections: Component Video + L/R Audio input. Price: $20! The two new bulbs ...
Like peanut butter and chocolate, Ableton Live and Touchdesigner go great together. Ableton Live and Touchdesigner can be equally messy and sticky. Persistent work with TDAbleton (the free component package that makes communication between the apps possible) will reward the user. In the first short video below, I am using ...
I’m offering a second virtual Touchdesigner workshop for The Fuse Factory, an art and technology initiative focused on cultivating artistic production, research, and experimentation with digital media and electronic tools. The second session will build on the first, but beginners with some Touchdesigner experience are welcome. Visual artists as well ...
On 2/6/22, I performed for about two hours on Bandcamp via their new live stream offering (not to be confused with music streaming like Spotify, etc). This was a low-key experiment intended to put this new Bandcamp tool through the paces and compare with previous experiences streaming on Twitch, YouTube ...
I’m offering another virtual Touchdesigner workshop for The Fuse Factory – an art and technology initiative focused on cultivating artistic production, research, and experimentation with digital media and electronic tools. Visual artists as well as musicians and writers can all create compelling things with Touchdesigner, so creatives of all types ...
Laura Chenault and Valerie Chikwendu turn the tables on fellow co-host Jeremy dePrisco for this episode of the Philly Maker Faire Podcast. ...
Reading about music can be counter intuitive, but I’ve found the Arcana series by John Zorn pretty inspiring, if not always well written.The entire series is riddled with typos and bad editing, but if you can look past that, the essays from a broad range of creators are usually pretty good. ...
Whether it’s Propellerhead Reason, Ableton Live, Studio One or the new DAW on the block, I can help you get the most out of your setup. Since the early 90s, I’ve been using a variety of DAWs to record my own music, and eventually to run a project studio to ...