Note Please check Exil Website whether I'm actually playing.
, wakah
, one shot
, metronome
, loop
techniques.
, wakah, and one shot
at Jenseits im Viadukt.
Co-founder and participator of various acts and ensembles whose major topics are:
Find some samples of sessions and loops here or on myspace.
As a software engineer I develop live electronic systems (Cycling' 74 Max/MSP, C++), some of which have been presented at international conferences (Ex Machina 1996, Essen, Germany; ICMC 1997, Thessaloniki, Greece; Klangart 1997, Osnabrück, Germany. For a full list see: https://www.xmlizer.net/priorArt.html).
Documented how to program the Digitech PMC 10 Programmable Midi Controller via the PC's parallel port or USB on Apple Mac OS X.
Contributed software architecture to the Chopitch VST-plugin and loop software working in a team with Matthias Grob, Andy Butler, and Johannes Schmid.
I live and work in Zürich as a musician, workshop leader, freelance software engineer and lecturer in software engineering.
| Regularly on Mondays, 20:30: solo as a supporting act for Nik Bärtsch's Ronin at EXIL,
Zürich. I start playing at around 20:30 until Nik Bärtsch's Ronin start
at approx. 21:15. In the short break after their first set and after
their second set I play again. Note Please check Exil Website whether I'm actually playing. |
| July 3rd-7th, 2017; July 4th-8th, 2016: Teaching several workshops at guitarosa, including thelevi, shaker, wakah, one shot, metronome, loop techniques.
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| July 5th, 2012: Teaching rhythm workshop, including thelevi, shaker, wakah, and one shot
at Jenseits im Viadukt. |
| April 7th, 2011 10:00-17:00: Teaching Masterclass about thelevi at Jazz School Lucerne. |
| December 12, 2010: Release of No Worn Bearings: Cooperation with Nick Robinson |
| November 5, 6, 7 2010: Gig at Designer's Saturday Langenthal using furniture and live looping. |
| February 2010: article Live Looping Guitar for the magazine Artists & Bands |
| Friday, Oct, 23rd, 2009 21:00 solo gig at Treibhaus Luzern as supporting act for Istaman at the launch concert of their brilliant CD "Hoover". |
| September, 19th, 2009 appearance at Belluard as part of the festival des 10 ans [anyma] (Photo) |
| June, 6th, 2009 solo gig at dimmidisi club as part of European loopfestival 2009 - "in Rome" |
| January, 2009 Mike Bearpark discusses pedaltone among other projects in an interview by Anil Prasad in the January 2009 issue of Guitar Player Magazine. |
| November 20th, 2008 gig at Theater Am Gleis, Winterthur. |
| August 22nd, 2008 solo gig at Nectarbar. |
| Starting August 18th, 2008 I regularly play solo as a supporting act for Nik Bärtsch's Ronin on Mondays at EXIL (formerly Bazillus Club), Zürich. I start playing at around 20:30 until Nik Bärtsch's Ronin start at approx. 21:30. In the short break after their first set I play again. It's a great honour for me! |
| August 13th, 2008 thelevi.net went online. |
| June 6th, 2008 solo gig at The 2. Berlin Livelooping Festival at Villa of 'Fragments of Urban Culture' Club, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin. | |
| October 7th, 2007 Matthias Knoll asked 15 questions for tokafi. |
| September 26th, 2007: pedaltone is proud to be featured on Burning Shed Sampler Three with a previously unreleased track "Goodbye Honeypot". |
| September 12th, 2007 21:00 gig at Kunstraum Walcheturm with [ a n y m a ] as part of "From Analog to Digital - #3 Microcontroller". |
| August 4th, 2007 15:00 - 16:00 solo gig at Werdinsel Openair. Short video clips of an audience member having fun at the gig: Video000.3gp , Video001.3gp. Thanks to Reto Bertani for shooting these! One more excerpt, also for the standalone player |
| May 10th, 2007 21:00: gig with Flo Kaufmann at r3s3t. |
| March 10th, 2007 20:20: gig at turbine theater as part of take 15. |
| February 9th, 2007 solo live looping gig at Norwich Arts Centre, nr Norwich UK |
| February 4th, 2007 gig at St.Mary's Church,Surlingham, nr Norwich UK as part of An Afternoon of 21st Century Guitar. |
| November 18th, 2006 20:20: Solo gig at turbine theater as part of take 15. |
| November 10th, 2006 21:00: Gig with Two Units at Jazzclub Uster. There's a press article (pdf, in German) |
| March 24th, 2006 21:00: Live Looping Gig with Sunao Inami at Kunstraum Walcheturm. |
| December 1st, 2005: Looper's Delight Compilation Volume 3 appeared. Per Boysen and I contributed Track 15 "I'll Be On That Hill" |
| October 9th, 2005 8:00 PM: Gig at E3 Playhouse, Santa Cruz, USA: Y2K5 International Live-Looping Festival. |
| October 7th, 2005 8:00 PM: Gig at Javacat Coffee, San Francisco, USA. Preliminary Concert for: Y2K5 International Live-Looping Festival. | |
| October 5th, 2005 8:00 PM: Gig at Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, USA. Preliminary Concert for: Y2K5 International Live-Looping Festival. |
| August 25th-27th, 2005: in Zürich, Switzerland: Producer of the 1st International Loopfestival Zürich. |
| August 23rd, 2005: 1st solo CD The Fourth Night is out! |
| August 23rd, 2005: Cooperation with Michael Bearpark CD pedaltone is out! |
| July 15th, 2005: in Zürich, Switzerland: short presentation including concert for the 1st International Loopfestival Zürich. |
| July 13th, 2005: in Zürich, Switzerland: free promo event including concert for the 1st International Loopfestival Zürich at Kunstraum Walcheturm. |
| June, 28th 2005: Performance at Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, Switzerland with dance members of former brachland and guests. |
| March, 19th and 20th 2005: Gig at former "Gantlokal", Zürich, Switzerland with brachland | |
| January, 25th 2005: Gig at FIM Basel in Basel, Switzerland with brachland |
| January, 2nd 2005: Gig at environline/loop in Melbourne, Australia |
| December, 14th 2004: Gig at Make It Up in Melbourne, Australia with percussionist Joe Talia. |
| December, 11th 2004: Gig at Glitch Bar & Cinema in Melbourne, Australia |
| December, 3rd, 2004: Gig at Big Apple in Kobe, Japan with other improvisers: Hiroshi "GORI" Matsuda drums, Keizo Nobori tenor and soprano sax |
| November, 28th, 2004: Gig at Otoya in Kobe, Japan with Zoid Logue, Sumi Masayuki, and Aci, violin, and Masato Kawatani, guitar |
| November, 24th, 2004: Gig at Big Apple in Kobe, Japan with Gareth Whittok, James Sidlo, Sunao Inami, and Bun Ito |
| November, 23rd, 2004: Gig at Cocoroom in Osaka, Japan |
| November, 22nd, 2004: Gig at Collage in Kyoto, Japan |
| November, 21st, 2004: Looper's Delight J in Kobe, Japan |
| October, 9th-10th, 2004: Y2K4 Live-Looping Festival, Santa Cruz |
| October, 8th, 2004: Question Mark Gallery, Santa Cruz | |
| October, 7th, 2004: Luggage Store San Francisco as International Live Looping Trio. There's a CD available documenting this event. |
| September, 18th, 2004: Gig: Live-Looping Duo Conveyor Belt in Zürich, Switzerland. Details |
| July, 28th - August, 4th 2004: attended Norberg Festival, jammed on the open stage with Per Boysen. Recorded the first 30 minutes of our CD with Per in Stockholm. What a treat! Thank you, Per! (An excerpt of this jam was published on LDCD3) |
| July, 4th, 2004: contributed drone to The Shipbuilders' Dronezone. |
| June, 26th, 2004: performed at Cambridge Loopfest. Had a beautiful jam with Michael Bearpark. Documented on CD on the label burningshed. |
| May 1st, 2004: performed at thrilling Loopstock |
| February 2004: I was lucky enough to spend a splendid month in Salvador de Bahia with Matthias Grob. We were working on a VST plugin software architecture and jammed with most of his friends ( Bira Reis and Giba Conceição among them) to my heart's content. Thanks a lot, Matthias, it was AWE-some!! |
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