Live Synth rig for Björk’s Biophilia

This photo from 2012 is of my live keyboard setup for Björk’s Biophilia shows. The centre piece is the amazing Reactable. It’s a beautiful thing. But sometimes the scanning gets a bit confused in strong overhead light… It’s a ‘visual synthesizer’ which uses the position and orientation of the blocks to produce different sounds, play samples or run sequences. (There’s also an ipad version which is fun to check out)

On the left are a selection of midi controllers, the Novation Launchpad which I used for triggering samples, the Novation SL remote, and a Lemur, which I programmed to have different layouts depending what song we were playing.

The main synth I used was a Moog Voyager, which took care of the majority of the bass sounds for the shows, and a Novation Remote SL midi controller to play synths and samples that I had setup in Ableton Live.

In the rack there is a Motu audio interface, Emagic Midi interface and UPS.

Fun times indeed!