At only nine years old, Kenaxis has already circled the globe! From Croatia to Australia, throughout North America, and all over Europe, Kenaxis products have become an integral part of exciting new projects everywhere.

Here’s just a sampling. Have you got a project to share? Let us know.

Stefan Smulovitz

I created Kenaxis out of a need to explore new sounds in an intuitive way. Coming from a background as an improvising violist, I wanted to create an instrument that would be fast and flexible enough to react to any musical situation.

If you would like to hear some of my music you can hear my solo work at MySpace and my duet work with vocalist Viviane Houle at Cellar Live.

Stefan Smulovitz - Vancouver, BC - creator of Kenaxis

October 22nd, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Electroacoustic Composition, Experimental, Featured Spotlight, Installations, Live Performance, Noise, Sound Design

Pessi Parviainen

I have used Kenaxis for preparing soundtracks for installations and performances. It is an intuitive tool for mixing and manipulating sound files on the fly, making it a breeze to prepare what I need. Most recently, I used Kenaxis in the Amorph!08-festival in Helsinki, in making a soundtrack that played in a park.
Besides that, Kenaxis is also an interesting digital expansion for my improv guitarism.

Pessi Parviainen - Interdisciplinary artist - Helsinki, Finland

September 16th, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Installations, Live Performance

Danny Barnes

What’s cool about Kenaxis is that you can sit down and make something happen. It never fails to generate a cool sonic idea.

Banjo Ideas Audio Sample (1:47) - Click to Play

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Danny Barnes - banjoist, composer, remix artist, inventor of folktronics - Port Hadlock, Washington

September 12th, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Featured Spotlight, Live Performance

John Oliver

I use Kenaxis in works for fixed media (surround sound concert works) & in live performance.

John Oliver - Composer and Sound Artist, Vancouver BC

September 12th, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Electroacoustic Composition, Live Performance

Scott Fraser

I have been using kenaxis as my primary sound source since about 2005. I use it with the band G42 as well as when working solo as Fritter or DSA.

Scott Fraser - Noise Artist, Vancouver BC

September 12th, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Noise

Graham Ord

I am so knocked out with Kenaxis. I’ve been using the VST links to run Reaktor and it’s so mindblowing I feel like I am in synth heaven.  I can run numerous Reaktor ensembles and mix in my live field recording samples and mess with the whole lot.  Being a child of the ’60’s I feel like I can re-create the Beatles #9 and then some.  I haven’t explored all the possibilities of Kenaxis yet but I’m completely blown away by it’s power and possibilities.

Ord G - Musician, improvisor, soon to be noise artist, Vancouver BC

September 9th, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Featured Spotlight, Live Performance

Dan Kibke

I use Kenaxis for live performance and in the studio although my technique for both is the same.

The immediate appeal for me was the open ended approach to Kenaxis. Most music software is designed in such a way that there are expectations of how you will use it so you have to fight to break out of that mold.

Primarily I treat it as an instrument for processing and manipulating live sounds fed from contact microphones and photocells rather than working with pre-recorded material.
Dan Kibke / Sinusoidal - noise artist, Vancouver BC

September 6th, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Noise

Jeff Cloke

I find Kenaxis is incredibly flexible, with a natural interface and built-in processing.  It is naturally multi-voiced, with live sampling and total midi-control capability.  Its granular processing is incomparable, with two granulators and fast parameter switching.  Overall it provides an ideal foundation for live performance.
- Jeff Cloke, Laptop improviser - with live instrumental performers - sort of ambient!
London, UK

September 5th, 2008 by admin
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Featured Spotlight, Live Performance

coin gutter (emma hendrix and graeme scott)

coin gutter uses kenaxis as a sound design tool for working with real time sound manipulation of samples, re-samples, and live instruments and electronics.

coin gutter - Sound art / sound design, Vancouver, BC

September 4th, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Electronic Music, Sound Design

Brian Lamb

I use Kenaxis to represent the permeable nature of digital media in live performance and in pre-recorded mashups. I struggled with other tools, but Kenaxis got me mashing instantly. It’s nimble, intuitive, and full of anarchic surprises. Playing with it has changed how I think about and listen to music.

- Brian Lamb, Educational Program Discoordinator, Vancouver, BC

Brian Lamb mashing it up. Photo by D'Arcy Norman

Brian Lamb mashing it up. Photo by D'Arcy Norman

For more about Brian’s work see:

  • The experience of his work in Second Life
  • Confessions of a Mashup Unartist (mp3)

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  • And another mashup:

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September 4th, 2008 by admin
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Mash Ups, Noise, Sound Design

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