Tonight (November 9th 2011) Coolooloosh will play at a very special event in Bremen in Germany. The band has been invited to perform at an evening at the town hall, commemorating the events of the “Crystal night” which took place in 1938 and was one of the biggest warning signs before world war II. In […]

Coolooloosh ( Yuval Gerstein’s band) are going on tour starting tomorrow in Germany, Holland and Belgium. Visit the official coolooloosh website for more details. Join Coolooloosh on Facebook.  

“A creative person would prefer their music to be stolen and enjoyed than ignored. This is the dilemma for every creative soul: he or she would prefer to starve and be heard than to eat well and be ignored.” Pete Townshend, The Who. This quote was published on nme.com this morning. Townshend reflects on the […]

I recently got a free upgrade to pro tools 10 from version 9. Here is a short video I made that explores the best ten best new features of pro tools 10. I realize after making this video that there are lots of other features like real time fades and others that should be on […]

Last weekend at Richmix centre in east London the Whirlygig Cinema held an event entitled making tracks in which innovative films by up and coming film makers were re-scored by a five piece live band. The films included animations, documentaries and video art. The musicians used a host of instruments to create interesting live textures […]

Live electronic improvisation by Yuvi Gerstein by Yuvi Gerstein This improvisation excerpt presented above was made by Yuval Gerstein for Goldsmiths university as part of his MA studies. Equipment – Macbook Pro 15″ running Ableton live 8. M-audio axiom 25 midi controller. Gibson ES-175 electric guitar. iphone 4 running gyrosynth app.  

Do I need it? probably not. Do I want it? Probably…yeah. Huge Companies like apple and the likes have a way of planning obsolescence. This means that when that they launch a new product that makes you chuck the one you have in the trash even though it still works perfectly. Last month I bought […]

London Student, Europe’s largest independent student newspaper has published an article about the recent film project ‘Under your skin‘ by Yuval Gerstein and Cristina Picchi. The article includes an interview with Yuval Gerstein and tells the story of how the film was created after the artists won the ‘x factor’ style judging panel. It also […]

This short video includes interviews with influential musicians and sound artists that talk about what sound means to them. I know a couple of them personally (Martyn Ware and John Lavack Drever) and watching this video inspired me to be ever more sensitive to sound. This video was sponsored by SoundCloud.com but that should not […]

I recently received three books from Focal press that deal with the art of mixing audio. The first book review is for this great book called mixing audio by Roey Izhaki. This book is a wonderful, no nonsense guide to audio mixing for beginners and advanced mixing engineers and producers. The accompanying DVD holds hundreds […]