Micah Frank : Kamoni

For the past six months I have been helping produce and refine Atarah Valentine’s live show. Atarah has recently completed a full length album “delivered within a blend of strings and piano, organic beats and computer blips”. He is an incredibly dynamic and versatile performer with an amazing singing voice.

Not only has this project has been a lot of fun, but it has been unique learning experience adapting the album for live performance. My live setup with Atarah has evolved over the past few months, from a simple Ableton rig with Percussa’s Audio Cubes to this full blown all hardware concoction. The MPC is handling playback tracks and percussion samples that are triggered via the drumKat. The Machinedrum is synched to the MPC for live electronic beats and the A-100 Modular is used for sci-fi alien attacks on the Pentagon, white noise sweeps and filtering.

Tom Rose is the other geek in the band and he plays live bass, trumpet and a secondary drumKat (also hooked into the MPC) that triggers many of Atarah’s bell and glock parts.

Be sure to look for us soon in a city near you!