So your friend just got accepted to present a showcase of her artwork at a swanky gallery. They’ve told her “she can provide music on the night” and she’s heard some of your stuff and thinks it’s a good opportunity for you both to do something complimentary and provide ambience.
What would you do?
You have an Octatrack with zero patterns and a card full of choice samples. It’s a 4 hour set and you have 7 days to prepare.
You can use the Octatrack in any configuration of course and the gallery has a basic sound system “you can plug into our mixer”.
How would you go about this?
Sample choice/prep
Octa config
Overall structure of the set
Pattern/loop creation
Other hardware / live sampling
Gain staging considerations
Practice
Remember - it’s not a club night, your providing ambience for 4 hours so a steady flow is more important than tight transitions and other tricks. You could even prep a 1 hour set and repeat 4 times as no one hangs about at these things all night, they come for the free drinks and a chat then move on.
Love to hear how our community would approach this in a variety of Octa configurations e.g. streaming longish samples, DJ style, live pattern flipping, etc.
4 hour set from scratch in 7 days.