MUTEK 10 in Montreal last month provided a forum for Derivative to showcase the performative capabilities of its software tool TouchDesigner alongside some of (and in the case of Alva Noto aka Carsten Nicolai - by) the international music scene's most exacting and saluted artists and labels.
The day following our arrival in Lisbon Richie Hawtin and Ali Demirel fly in from Berlin for the night to meet with Greg Hermanovic and Markus Heckmann to discuss previous and future collaborations. Lively conversation though jet-lag in effect.
Derivative recently collaborated with SND at Transmediale 09, Berlin to perform the visual aspect of their musical set composed of accumulating vertical colour strips released by the "twiddling of knobs" as Derivative's Greg Hermanovic put it, where each strip is "an 'era' of knob-turns making up th
RUSH PUTS DERIVATIVE's SECRET TOUCH ON 30th ANNIVERSARY TOUR Derivative produced custom live visuals for the Rush 30-year anniversary tour this summer. Rush played 55 shows in North America, the UK, Germany and other European cities.
