What is the coolest not purely musical thing you have done with your elektron device

Oberheim · 2023-11-08T00:15:16.624Z

E.g. create a spoken word story or something idk

shigginpit · 2023-11-08T00:20:50.048Z

Opened a window to join Elektronauts. Best secondary use ever.

Cemat · 2023-11-08T00:28:40.391Z

Replacing the faceplate and see how it looks like beneath

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uglymule · 2023-11-08T03:44:21.061Z

Control lighting and glitched video.

LyingDalai · 2023-11-08T05:57:48.942Z

Making new friends after meeting Elektron users IRL, some I still meet regularly
Repairing my Monomachine screen
Preaching the Elektron way to strangers at Synthfest France.

yoyz2k · 2023-11-08T08:01:19.505Z

Not really done by/with an Elektron, but caused I bought an Elektron in the first place.
Decided to :

develop software using the Elektron philosophy.
learn embedded programming

With years behind this experience, I think it was cool

Pablo76 · 2023-11-08T15:08:13.095Z

Did a live performance with a dancer a couple of times as part of an open studios/gallery night presentation.
Used (almost) only non-musical found-sounds/field recordings. (Digitakt only.)

Was mega-fun to mangle (only 8-10 samples) live in interaction and sync with the dancer’s movements.

It was mostly freestyle for both of us. Albeit we had an internally set emotional theme/concept going while developing/rehearsing. (Which helped selecting the sounds to use.)
We had a rough progression prepared: Slow intro/build-up, total noise terror, some relaxation, back to mean glitchy drone/noise stuff and a soothing but abrupt finale.

Also her movements weren’t very “dancy” most of the time, more like body-expression stuff.
It was pretty intense (and loud), went on for about 20 minutes.

Also great feedback from the audience. Seemed to produce a wide variety of emotional resonance, which was the goal. 100% would do it again.
Great “fun”, very satisfying, but also very draining. I was in a pretty weird mental state directly afterwards.
(Probably because we thematically touched on some heavy personal/biographical and dark themes.)

Very very different experience from performing a prepared hardware (party) “live-set” based on programmed beats/tunes.