Picture taken on musikk day at Fugazi by Viktor Jæger.

On the 19th of feb we played our last gig for the By:Larm festival at Stratos in Oslo. It was absolutely amazing and the venue was packed to it’s full capacity within a few minutes! People were actually jumping at times, which takes a lot at a festival like By:Larm. For those who don’t know, By:Larm is a music industry festival in Norway, which focuses on new music and new bands in Scandinavia. There are lots of music industry characters around, which generally just stand there watching the show as if they were immersed in a philosophy lecture – chin stroking and everything – and if they are happy they might nod their head half an inch or open their eyes a bit wider, and if they are REALLY happy they might even tap their foot. Anyway if they are happy, we are happy of course. We were really lucky though, because at our gig lots of young people in their teens and twenties came, and they are just so full of youthful energy that even if they wanted to look ‘cool’, they just couldn’t help themselves. When I asked them if they liked a bit of ‘dubstep wobble noises here and there’ I was met with a screaming wall of sound. I took that as a ‘Yes’.

I reccommend using Mountain Utilities’ amazing BC Manager program to upload these to your BCR and also to print the reference cards/strips.
The presets  have been updated and fixed to take advantgae of the new features that os 1.3  has brought, like the new improved multi mode, great new Arp mode,  the lfo tempo sync bug having been fixed, and ‘slew’ destination on sequencer tracks 2 and 4 (which affects seq track 1 and 4,) more info here http://prophet5.org/viewtopic.php?t=543 (many thanks to Chris hector) it should make the tetra a lot of fun to tweak

Id like to mention a couple of things about these maps, firstly is that buttons on the bcr2000  dont normally send 14bit Nrpn’s, only the encoders do that, so, you cant assign these parameters using the bcr’s edit controls, it has to be done with the .tx statements that you code by hand. I’m saying this in case you try to re-edit some buttons from the front panel of the BCR and they end up not working, best not to re-save buttons from the BCR itself. I’ve included the pdf BC Secrets that explains all the cool different things you can assign to buttons and knobs on the BCR, and a BCR midi implemantation pdf, well worth a read!
Secondly, I have made these presests all use midi channel 12, so if you are going to use the cool new multi mode, changing the midi channel on the tetra itself in global settings from 12 to 11 would enable the BCR to start editing voice 2, again going down to 10 on the tetra would enable editing on voice 3, and finally setting the tetra to midi channel 9 would then enable editing on voice 4. hope that makes sense
Also, maybe because of the new Voice 1 master clock function, changing the BPM seems to only work one way, from the tetra itself, the NRPN is correct, but it doesn’t seem to change when you tweak the control from the BCR. this works fine using CC though,  so you could change them from the front yourself to use CC instead if you like, or just jump to to preset 1 when ever you want to adjust BPM.

Global Settings in Tetr4 should be as follows:

MIDI Channel 12 (for program editing, leave it at 12, for multi editing, see above)
MParam Send:NRPN
M Param Rec: ALL
MIDI Control: On
MIDI Sysex: On
PotMode: Relative*

*at the moment, still working out how to have the tetr4  send its program edit values to the bcr, so that the Bcr gets feedback on all these values and displays them, before tweaking.
if ANYONE has the slightest clue please contact me at

http://bylarm.no/nor/artists/8483

so, my driving lessons and the English countryside have to be set aside for later as we return to base

Music wise, hopefully a ‘sunshine’ remix in the works by the amazing Aaron Horn, check him out! he just won a major competition that saw him being flown to NYC to record and produce his song.
http://aaronaudio.tumblr.com/

Babyjaws performing ‘Sunshine’ in Oslo
had a lot of fun playing this song live!
one of more dubstep inspired songs to come next year
cut with the the 1956 documentary ‘Our Mr Sun’ available at archive.org.
Thanks to Ninja , Tom Ståle Engebretsen and Helene Fjell for camera work

WHICH IS GREAT! go Viktoria! more power to the independant band!l

Update from Viktoria

We had our first radio interview in Modum radio. A small local radio staion in a little place called Modum. A friend suggested I use some of this time of touring Norway with the theatre, to do some radio interviews actross norway in local radio stations , to spread the word of Babyjaws
I took a taxi from the hotel. It was out in the sticks. I thought it might be in a small town or so. But Modum radio was in a totally random house on a totally random street, amogst other houses, close to a beautifull lake in a forest. I sat by the lake for 10 minuts  befor  I knocked on the door.   An old scruffy studio, kept alive only by good will and for the  love of it. A sweet old man, Magne Gronlund,  that doesn’t really know much about what’s going on in the music  or film world today, but knows everyone in town, runs the station.  Though he had caught the news about Live Ullmann performing   at the theatre nearby, which is big news for the smaller and bigger towns of Norway. Magne is a  real sweethart. He recorded  for 10 minuts of chitt chat, and he played the tracks: All for you and Cold Nights.
Local radio statons are the best. Priceless!

this album took quite a while to complete and we had a lot of fun on the way thanks to everyone involved.

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