music4yourTrip unites the power of improvisation with the vast sound palette available to the modern electronic musician. The players on each session vary, as do the rigs they use. The result, however, is always fascinating to hear, now beautiful, now thrashing, now danceable.
Feb. '25 Quartet Session: newcomer Nick Shelhoff on 4-string bass (through a Fractal Audio AX8), Kevin Brown on 7-string bass (with Axe-FX III using MIDI Designer Pro X), Dan Rosenstark on drums, percussion and spoken word using Maschine/Ableton (with MIDI Designer Pro X), and Mike Rosenstark on guitar (through Fractal Audio AX8, NeuralDSP Quad Cortex, a pair of Eventide PitchFactors, and a pair of Fractal VP4's, then through a zillion plugins on a macbook), synth, optical theremin, piano, and spoken word samples (with MIDI Designer Pro X).
March '25 Quartet Session: old friend Anthony Cornicello on Take 5 (through a Fractal AX8), Nick Shelhoff on 4-string bass (through an AX8), Dan Rosenstark on drums, percussion and spoken word using Maschine/Ableton (with MIDI Designer Pro X), and Mike Rosenstark on guitar (through Fractal Audio AX8, NeuralDSP Quad Cortex, and 2 Eventide PitchFactors), synth, optical theremin, piano, and spoken word samples (with MIDI Designer Pro X).
Trio Session Wednesday, December 4, 2024. Nick Shelhoff: 7-string bass & Fractal Axe-FX III controlled by an iPad running MIDI Designer Pro 2; Mike Rosenstark on guitar-, guitar-like-noises, and spoken word samples using Gig Performer (awesome!). Dan Rosenstark on a custom rig using MIDI Designer Pro 2 on iPad and two Maschine controller (MK3 & Jam) to drive drums and spoken word in Ableton.
Three-quarters of an hour-long improvisational journey from September 2024. Featuring newcomer and rising star Nick Shelhoff on 7-string bass & Axe-Fx III, Dan Rosenstark on Maschine and Korg Kaoss KP3+ pad, and Mike Rosenstark on guitar. The trio explores dynamic and immersive soundscapes, with each rig utilizing MIDI Designer Pro X on iPad for tactile control and MIDI looping.
Embark on a juggernaut hour-long improvisational journey from June 2024. Featuring Kevin Brown on 7-string bass & Axe-Fx III, Dan Rosenstark on Maschine and Roland TR-8S drum machine, and Mike Rosenstark on guitar. The trio explores dynamic and immersive soundscapes, with each rig utilizing MIDI Designer Pro X on iPad for tactile control and MIDI looping.
Trio session recorded June 2023. Kevin Brown on 7-string bass (through Axe-FX III, controlled by MIDI Designer Pro 2 on iPad), Dan Rosenstark on drums, percussion and spoken word with Maschine/Ableton (controlled by MIDI Designer Pro 2), and Mike Rosenstark on guitar, synth, optical theremin, piano, and spoken word samples (MIDI Designer Pro 2 & Guitar Rig).
Session From January 28, 2024. Personnel: Kevin Brown, 7-string bass; Dan Rosenstark, percussion; Mike Rosenstark, guitar and guitar-like noises.
Trio Session Thursday, September 7, 2023. Kevin Brown: 7-string bass & Fractal Axe-FX III controlled by an iPad running MIDI Designer Pro 2; Mike Rosenstark on guitar-, guitar-like-noises, and some spoken word samples using Gig Performer (awesome!). Dan Rosenstark on a custom rig using MIDI Designer Pro 2 on iPad and two Maschine controller (MK3 & Jam) to drive drums and spoken word in Ableton.
Trio session recorded June 2023. Kevin Brown on 7-string bass (through Axe-FX III, controlled by MIDI Designer Pro 2 on iPad), Dan Rosenstark on drums, percussion and spoken word with Maschine/Ableton (controlled by MIDI Designer Pro 2), and Mike Rosenstark on guitar, synth, optical theremin, piano, and spoken word samples (MIDI Designer Pro 2 & Guitar Rig). It's been a while, and we've evolved a lot since our last session: hope you like the new things you hear!
Trio session recorded April 18, 2023. Kevin Brown on 7-string bass (through Axe-FX III, controlled by MIDI Designer Pro 2 on iPad), Dan Rosenstark on drums, percussion and spoken word with Maschine/Ableton (controlled by MIDI Designer Pro 2), and Mike Rosenstark on guitar, synth, optical theremin, piano, and spoken word samples (MIDI Designer Pro 2 & Guitar Rig). It's been a while, and we've evolved a lot since our last session: hope you like the new things you hear!
Dan visits from Florida--and Kevin & Mike join him for an extended session. Featuring Kevin Brown on 7-string bass, Dan Rosenstark on Maschine (controlled by MIDI Designer for iPad) and Mike Rosenstark on guitar and guitar-like noises
Trio session recorded May 26, 2022. Kevin Brown on bass, Dan Rosenstark on Maschine & MIDI Designer, and Mike Rosenstark on guitar.
This is an experiment in remote music making. Dan created the percussion and english-language spoken word track; Mike then took that track and, while listening to it, recorded two completely separate tracks using guitar, synth & non-english-language spoken word. THEN, during the mixing stage, when Mike was comparing his two performances, he hit upon a novel idea: why not just use BOTH TRACKS, even though each was recorded without listening to the other? They were BOTH recorded IN SYNC, and they were BOTH recorded while listening to Dan's (excellent) track. So, there are bound to be cool coincidences, as well as horrific collisions of tonality. Enjoy.
A trio session from March 17, 2022. Kevin Brown on 7-string bass, Dan Rosenstark on MIDI Designer and Maschine and Jam, and Mike Rosenstark on guitar and guitar-like noises.
A trio session featuring Kevin Brown on 7-string bass, Dan Rosenstark on Maschine & Jam, and Mike Rosenstark on guitar and guitar-like noises.
An entire trio session recorded on January 13, 2022: Kevin Brown on 7-string fretted bass (through a Fractal Audio Axe-FX III controlled via MIDI Designer); Dan Rosenstark on Maschine, Jam & assorted electronic percussion & looping (on a rig controlled by the latest & greatest version of MIDI Designer, with Dan exploiting all the latest features); and Mike Rosenstark on guitar and guitar-like noises, as processed by an elaborate rig controlled by MIDI Designer.
Excerpts from a trio session on January 13, 2022: Kevin Brown on 7-string fretted bass (through a Fractal Audio Axe-FX III controlled via MIDI Designer); Dan Rosenstark on Maschine, Jam & assorted electronic percussion & looping (on a rig controlled by the latest & greatest version of MIDI Designer, with Dan exploiting all the latest features); and Mike Rosenstark on guitar and guitar-like noises, as processed by an elaborate rig controlled by MIDI Designer.
Dan Rosenstark: Maschine, Mike Rosenstark: Baritone guitar, synth, voices and so forth. Sometimes, the best sessions happen when the people recording are ticked off. And such is the case here! As Dan was annoyed that Mike suddenly announced that (via the "Radio" plugin) he was incorporating spoken word into his rig. Dan thus rightfully decided that he would retaliate for Mike's "getting in his territory" with the spoken word stuff by "playing the guitar," meaning he would play some horrifically bastardized simulacrum of guitarishness made available to him by Maschine. HOWEVER, due to the power of the rigorous debate between Mike & Dan's competing aesthetic viewpoints, the art produced thereby (at least, the first seventeen minutes of it) is quite listenable and poppy, almost. Almost.
June 24, 2021 session, Dan on Maschine, Mike on Baritone guitar. This is the one where Mike played around extensively with the Sequencer hidden in the Moog Little Phatty.
Trio recorded September 24, 2020. Kevin in a separate room for social distancing! Dan Rosenstark on Maschine & MIDI Designer, Mike Rosenstark on guitar, and Kevin Brown on 7-string bass.
Mike Rosenstark on Baritone (B-B) guitar, Dan Rosenstark on Maschine.
Jam session on January 9, 2020. Dan Rosenstark: Maschine & Percussion & Spoken Word sampling; Kevin Brown: 10-string bass; Mike Rosenstark: guitar and guitar-like noises.
A duo session featuring Dan Rosenstark on Maschine (and cool spoken word samples taken straight from the web and twisted beyond recognition), and Mike Rosenstark on guitar.
Jam session on September 26, 2019. Dan Rosenstark: Maschine & Percussion & Voice sampling; Kevin Brown: 7-string bass; Mike Rosenstark: guitar and guitar-like noises.
11/21/2019 Duet: Dan Rosenstark on Percussion and Mike Rosenstark on guitar. First eight minutes are pretty dang cool. 18:00 and on is interesting; starting at 21:00 until about 26:30 makes me transcend this physical plane of existence. Taken as one contiguous unit, the first 26 minutes of this session are great. Dan particularly does some great work with "speech mangling," a recent addition to his bag of tricks that I quite enjoy. As should you!
An excerpt from a trio session on February 6, 2017, featuring Kevin Brown on bass, Dan Rosenstark on Maschine percussion, and Mike Rosenstark on guitar.
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