The Strawberry Fair is one of the largest free festivals in Europe. I was delighted to be able to play at the fair in the CEM tent this year. This is a re-recording of the set I played at the fair with custom visuals written using Open Frameworks.
Author: nick
A guitar and a broken drum machine
This was recored in 2014. At some time I had bought a Korg Volca Beats drum machine. This is a cool little drum machine but it only has one output. Pretty soon after it was released people were putting out instructions on the internet on how to modify these little machines to provide multiple outputs. Pretty soon I had taken a soldering iron to my drum machine. The mods mostly worked but the bass drum which I had liked a lot before the mods now sounded a bit off. I still wanted to make a track with my slightly broken drum machine so I hooked up the individual sounds via a small mixer and started recording. The final track is built around a stock Ableton breakbeat. All other sounds are either from the drum machine or a guitar, all sampled looped and modified further. The ‘arrangement’ was mostly performed in one go as a live mix with a few tweaks.
The Magic Never Ends
Some time in 2016 Adam ‘Schmaughan’ Vaughan invited me to do a remix of one of his tracks for a charity compilation. I was quite pleased with the result. I felt that I needed a new name to use as a solo act so ‘Parametric’ was born.
The Delta family are back. This time the line is Nick Evans and Frank Bowles. The chair EP is a mix of styles from Disco/House through to Post Rock experimentation. Enjoy!
The Delta Family
It’s been a long time coming but we’ve finally put an album together. Hope you like it.
Men in sheds is an homage to the old Delta Family recording studio. ‘The Shed’ was a converted concrete garage which served as a studio for many years. For this track we sampled just about anything that was lying around that made a noise!
Route 11 is a Sustrans cycle route which will eventually link Harlow in Essex with Kings Lynn in Norfolk. The film was made as an entry to the Cambridge International Super 8 festival and it was shot around Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire. The film was shot on Kodak Tri-X black and white film during a couple of cold wet and windy weekends. The sound track was created by loading the film clips into Ableton live and writing the music to fit the visuals.
Thanks to Rob Stanley for lending his Super 8 Camera and sharing the film making.
We visited Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether Reverse Karaoke yurt at the ‘Be Glad for the song has no end’, the Wysing Arts music festival and recorded this:
Reverse Karaoke
The line up was Nick Evans on drums, Paul Herrington on guitar and Oscar Evans on bass. Art work by Jacob Evans.