A while ago I was browsing YouTube and I found some videos by Splurt, a crazy guy who was using all kinds of portable music technology to create his own “mobile studio”. This included a boom box and Korg Kaossilator, among other things.

Seeing the video I was very impressed with how creative he was with a limited amount of portable devices, which shows that you don’t need a big studio full of gear anymore today to create interesting sound and music. These days you can do it all on a computer with software and a musical interface that stimulates your creativity as you use it.

Splurt lives in New York, and happened to be visiting his home country Sweden this summer, so it was an great opportunity to invite him over to Belgium and hear about his music career, his obsession with portable devices, his opinion about music technology in general and of course, about the AudioCubes. Here is the video series. Enjoy!

Some background info about Splurt’s work in music:

I began as a DJ on college radio, then started a live soundsystem and paid and arm and a leg to ship all my vinyls and speakers to Hawaii . I heard some early jungle records from some japanese DJs and found myself back in New York City at some drum and bass clubs. I worked as a drum and bass MC and got to travel to some interesting places with the music. At that time I was purchasing samplers and drum machines and experimenting with music production. I ended up in sweden, scored a few hit tunes and eventually a record deal. Then came 911, so things kind of crumbled. I went back to Sweden and re-invented myself as Splurt. Lately I have been experimenting with music technology and started a YouTube channel called Splurt Technology. I coined the term nanoband and have begun to give lectures at schools and seminars about the future of music interactivity. I also am busy managing a reggae singer and perform myself on ocassion, both moonlighting as a reggae artist and a live electro DJ act.

Some older videos:

More info about Splurt:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SplurtySplurt
http://www.myspace.com/splurt