Kenaxis - Kenaxis live improvisation software

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

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

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

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

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

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 Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Mash Ups, Noise, Sound Design

I use Kenaxis for live noise performance and as a studio tool.

–Kelly Churko Composer, Improviser, Guitarist, Computer musician, Tokyo, Japan

September 3rd, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Live Performance, Noise, Sound Design

I use Kenaxis as my secret weapon for live sets and studio recordings, it’s one of the most important tools I have ever used on my music, and I played and tested a lot of stuff, analog and digital systems.

Kenaxis has so many goals, Multitrack channels, pink / white noise generator, which is awesome!, pitch, delay, filter are simply brilliant!!!

Also, the chance of using VST plug-ins, I tested a lot of different plug-ins on Kenaxis and never had a single problem.

You know what ?? 1 month later after my first show I played a second show and of course I used the powerful Filter that comes with Kenaxis 2v28, the point is that I blown one of the stage monitors using that filters, that filter can create such arrange of powerful sound in such short time, enough to blown away part of the stage monitors, a friend of mine came who is sound engineer came after the show to tell me how fucked his ears was because of the frequencies created by the Kenaxis, seriously true.

– Bonesfield, Noise Artist (Madrid, Spain)

Check out some tracks by Bonesfield or watch his Kenaxis-fueled performance The Troglodyte Lounge:

September 3rd, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Featured Spotlight, Noise

I use kenaxis for live improv with real time recorded loops, mixed with noise and frequencies.

zorei – Noise artist, Rochesson, France

September 2nd, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Noise

Stormhat in the field

I like the flexibility and simpleness of Kenaxis, both for live and in my studio

– Peter Bach Nicolaisen “Stormhat”
Composer, artist, noise, fieldrecordings
Jutland, Denmark

August 26th, 2008 by Stefan
Filed under:: Artist Spotlight, Electroacoustic Composition, Featured Spotlight, Noise