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Michael Rambo Techs Out to Rock On

Matt Ledger |

Pretty soon, The Michael Rambo Project will be known as THAT band, becoming known as the band that uses awesome tech stuff to bring their music to life. If you’re in the know, you’ve already seen the first entries in the band’s video series “The Michael Rambo Project Does Things,” one which features the band playing at locations all over Eau Claire and the other which shows the guys jamming as they mow the lawn and perform magic tricks in the street. Now the band is bringing their tech savvy to the stage. Their June 11 show at Grand Little Theatre will incorporate audience participation via iPad app, allowing listeners to interact with MRP’s music (here's a video explaining all the techy goodness). During the band’s normal set, the audience will be able to use the touchpad to activate preset audio cues, such as ambient noises and sound effects, to compliment what’s going on on-stage, but where things get really interesting is during the jam sessions, in which the audience will have full access to the range of rhythms and beats stored within the app and MRP will have to play along with whatever listeners (if you can call them that at that point) come up with. Also, if you see a mini-blimp hovering around MRP’s gigs in the near future, don’t head for cover. Plans are to have the thing fly around, audience-controlled, to record footage for the third video in “The Michael Rambo Project Does Things.”