Spacebar is my original project and a live-act that merges electronics with acoustic drumming and general sound-making.

Imagine you could play (acoustic) drums and sample yourself while doing so, and then loop, layer, mix, process, improvise, and compose with it on the spot. That was my goal, while keeping the whole thing easily portable. (All controllers are attached to two stands).

To pull this off I spent a year conceiving, developing and tweaking a custom setup of controllers, signal routing, and software that now feels like its own instrument. I call it Drummidi.

This setup includes (at this time) 5 control surfaces that are integrated with an acoustic drumset. Software is comprised of MTPro and Ableton Live (+plugins, some soft-synths).

Click on the video below to watch some examples (may take a while to load, best with broadband).